![]() Try not to be distracted by the alleged ‘40.0 Gbps’ connection the machine has. Right click the start menu and select ‘Network Connections’.Disable File and Printer sharing and SMB client on the network.Disable all tasks in ‘Windows Defender’.Now for each of the following in ‘Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows’:.Expand ‘Task Scheduler’ on the left side.Right click the start button and select ‘Computer Management’.Finally, select ‘(none)’ for the ‘Write debugging information’ dropdown.Uncheck ‘Time to display list of operating systems’ since you never get to see that anyways.Back to the ‘System Properties’ dialog, click the ‘Settings…’ button in the ‘Startup and Recovery’ section.In the Advanced tab, select ‘Programs’ and click Ok.In the Visual Effects tab, select ‘Adjust for best performance’.In the Performance section, click on ‘Settings…’.Right click the Start button and select ‘System’, then select ‘Advanced system settings’ on the left side.Turn on performance flags, plus turn off the boot timeout (since we’re on a server).Click on ‘Change settings’ for ‘Optimization schedule’.Click the start button and type in ‘Defragment’ and select ‘Defragment and Optimize drives’.Turn off auto Defragmenting drives (yes this is a real problem that’ll happen in the middle of your games).Click Settings and turn off ‘Real-time protection’.Click the Start button and type in ‘Windows Defender’.You should now be able to ping your server machine from your laptop to figure out what the roundtrip time is.Select ‘Inbound rules’ on the left side and enable the rule ‘File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-In)’.Click the Start button and type ‘Windows Fire’ and select ‘Windows firewall with Advanced Security’.Turn on ICMP Ping requests with the Windows Firewall.It’ll probably take several minutes until the machine will be back up and running. Once it completes, restart the machine if necessary.It can take a while for this to complete, and even might appear to be stuck at a certain percentage, but all is ok, just keep waiting.Click the Start button and select ‘Settings’, then select ‘Update & Security’ and run Windows Update there.Part 2: General configuration for making the server more of a workstation You won’t need the old account anymore, so feel free to remove settings about it from Remote Desktop. Set up this new user on Microsoft Remote Desktop on the client side and re-login with the new account.Close the window and disconnect from the session.Click on ‘Change the account type’, select ‘Administrator’, and confirm.This will be the accout you’ll use going forward. Then click to ‘Add a user account’ and create a new user.Then select ‘User Accounts’ and then ‘User Accounts’ again, then ‘Manage another account’.Right click on the Start button and select ‘Control Panel’.This is necessary for some driver changes and auto-login steps you’ll be doing later. Once connected, you’ll need to create a new user account that isn’t the account you specified earlier.For ‘Sound’ select ‘Don’t play sound’ (it’s unnecessary).Unselect ‘Start session in full screen’.Select ‘Connect to admin session’ on the machine’s properties.Set up the machine with the username/password you specified when creating the instance and the IP address listed on Azure. Install Microsoft Remote Desktop on your Mac if you haven’t already.Note that it takes a few minutes until your machine is Running and it’ll have an IP address. Confirm everything on the Summary screen and the instance will launch.On the Settings screen, most defaults are fine, but do change the Network Security Group to ‘None’ and turn off Diagnostics.Try not to panic about the cost, we’ll only be using it for a few hours while gaming, not 24/7. When prompted to pick the size (type) of machine select ‘View all’ up top and click on the ‘NV6’ machine type.Make sure though that the ‘VM disk type’ is ‘HDD’ and the Location is ‘South Central US’ (this is the only location they support right now) Enter a name and some credentials for the machine.When prompted for the deployment model, select ‘Resource Manager’ from the dropdown and click the ‘Create’ button.Select ‘Windows Server’ then ‘Windows Server 2016 Datacenter’.On the left side select ‘Virtual machines’ and click ‘Add’.The K80 machines won’t work for this since they don’t virtualize the display adapter we need. Go to the Azure portal and use the following instructions to create a new NV6 type machine (has NVIDIA’s M60 GPU).Note: playing via the cloud doesn’t make you suck any less at gaming )
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