Mouse input is too sensitive when running samples on a remote machine over Parsec about joltphysics HOT 5 CLOSED

Ok, I'll look into it.

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I've added your code to the sample app and I can verify that it works if I pick a random service, but as I don't have Parsec myself I would appreciate if you can confirm that this indeed works for you.

Thanks!

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Works perfectly now for my remote setup, thank you very much!

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Is there no way to detect this programmatically? (I don't have Parsec)

I guess a command line can be added, but my guess is also that nobody is going to find out about it.

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Not sure if there is a precise way to do that, but an imprecise way would be to check if "Parsec" service is running.

That would result in false positives (the same service is running on both hosts and clients), but IMO that's the lesser of two evils. If someone is running both Parsec service and Jolt samples on the same machine, chances are pretty high that they do it on a remote work machine, and if not, it's not that big of a deal anyway.

So, something like this (the code can be tested with any running service, not necessarily "Parsec"):

bool isServiceRunning(const char* serviceName) {
    bool isRunning = false;
    if (SC_HANDLE manager = OpenSCManager(nullptr, nullptr, SC_MANAGER_CONNECT)) {
        if (SC_HANDLE service = OpenServiceA(manager, serviceName, SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS)) {
            SERVICE_STATUS status;
            if (QueryServiceStatus(service, &status)) {
                isRunning = status.dwCurrentState == SERVICE_RUNNING;
            }
            CloseServiceHandle(service);
        }
        CloseServiceHandle(manager);
    }
    return isRunning;
}

It can be called on startup with isServiceRunning("Parsec") and cached together with GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION) (likely no reason to re-run the checks on every frame).

Unfortunately, it looks like everything Parsec is doing is symmetric for hosts and clients. For example, both will have "Parsec Virtual Display Adapter" connected all the time, etc., so if there is a robust way to tell them apart, I'm not aware of it.

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