NICE DCV Clients

NICE DCV offers a Windows client, Linux client, web browser client, and macOS client. The clients offer similar feature sets, but there are some differences. Choose the NICE DCV client that best suits your needs.

Topics

• Requirements
• Supported Features
• Windows Client
• Web Browser Client
• Linux Client
• macOS Client

Requirements

For a good user experience with NICE DCV, ensure that the client computers meet the following minimum requirements. Keep in mind that your experience is largely dependent on the number of pixels streamed from the NICE DCV server to the NICE DCV client.

	Native Windows client	Web browser client	Linux client	macOS client
Software	The Native Windows client is supported on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following operating systems: Windows 8.1 Windows 10 The client also requires the following additional software: .NET Framework 4.6.2 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio. For more information and download instructions, see the Microsoft Support website.	The web browser client is supported on the following browsers across all desktop operating systems: Firefox Chrome Edge Internet Explorer 11 Safari 11 The web browser client also requires WebGL and asm.js. Note The web browser client is not supported on mobile operating systems, such as Android and iOS.	The Linux client is supported on the following modern Linux operating systems: RHEL 7.x and CentOS 7.x RHEL 8.x and CentOS 8.x SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.x Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04	macOS clients with Intel processors require macOS Mojave (10.14) or later. macOS clients with Apple M1 processors require macOS Big Sur (11).
Network	The client must be able to connect to the NICE DCV server, and it must be able to communicate over the required port (8443 by default).

For more information about the NICE DCV server requirements, see NICE DCV server requirements in the NICE DCV Administrator Guide.

Supported Features

The following table compares the features that are supported by the NICE DCV clients.

Feature	Windows client	Web browser client	Linux client	macOS client
Connect to Windows NICE DCV servers	✓	✓	✓	✓
Connect to Linux NICE DCV servers	✓	✓	✓	✓
QUIC UDP transport protocol	✓	✗	✓	✓
Manage streaming modes	✓	✓	✓	✓
Transfer files	✓	✓	✓	✓
Print from sessions	✓	✓ 1	✓ 1	✓ 1
Copy and paste	✓	✓	✓	✓
Smart card support	✓	✗	✓	✓
USB remotization support	✓ (installable client)	✗	✗	✗
Connection file support	✓	✗	✓	✓
Stereo 2.0 audio playback	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surround sound audio playback	✓ (Up to 7.1)	✗	✓ (Up to 5.1)	✗
Stereo 2.0 audio recording	✓	✓	✓	✓
Touchscreen	✓ (Windows 8.1 and later)	✓ 2	✓	✗
Stylus (on Linux and Windows 10 and Server 2019 servers)	✓ (Windows 10 and later)	✓ 3	✓	✓
Multiple monitor support	✓	✓	✓	✓
Webcam support	✓	✓ 4	✓	✓

¹ These clients support printing to a file only. They do not support printing to a local printer.

² Supported with Firefox, Edge, and Google Chrome.

³ Supported with Chromium-based browsers only, such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge version 79 and later. Tilt and pressure events are not supported with other browsers.

⁴ Supported with Chromium-based browsers only, such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

For more information about the NICE DCV server features, see NICE DCV server features in the NICE DCV Administrator Guide.