Virtual Display creation failed, or cannot get created display name in time!
Author: thwysterCreated Jul 2, 2026Updated Sep 1, 2026
Description
Apollo consistently fails to create the SudoVDA virtual display and falls back to streaming the physical laptop panel instead. This happens on an Optimus (Intel iGPU + NVIDIA dGPU) laptop, even after a full clean reinstall of the SudoVDA driver.
Environment
- Apollo version: 0.4.6
- OS: Windows 11
- GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (iGPU) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU (dGPU) - Optimus laptop
headless_mode = enabledisolated_virtual_display_option = enabled- No
adapter_nameset (default)
Steps already tried
- Found and removed a conflicting third-party virtual display driver (
mttvdd/ MikeTheTech Virtual Display Driver) that was installed by mistake in an earlier troubleshooting session, then fully rebooted. This driver was crashingWUDFHost.exewith an access violation, which I originally suspected was blocking SudoVDA's interface from registering. - After the reboot, the SudoVDA device (
root\sudomaker\sudovda,oem235.inf) still showedConfigManagerErrorCode = 22(disabled) in Device Manager. Re-enabling it directly failed ("device not connected"). - Ran the official
install.bat(vianefconc.exe --remove-device-node+--create-device-node+--install-driver) fromdrivers/sudovdaas Administrator. This succeeded cleanly:Device Manager now shows the device asDevice and driver removed successfully Device node created successfully Driver installed successfullyStatus = OK,ConfigManagerErrorCode = 0. - Restarted
ApolloService. Connected via Moonlight — the SudoVDA driver opens successfully (no silent failure), but Apollo logs:It falls back to streaming the physical built-in display (Info: Display mode for client [CLIENT] requested to [1920x1080x120] Warning: Virtual Display creation failed, or cannot get created display name in time! ... Info: Session resuming for app [Virtual Display]. Info: CLIENT CONNECTED Debug: Output Name : \\.\DISPLAY1\\.\DISPLAY1) instead of the virtual one. - Per the README guidance for dual-GPU laptops, tried setting
adapter_name = NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPUinsunshine.confwithheadless_mode = enabled. This made things significantly worse — Apollo failed to start any encoder at all on startup:RevertedInfo: Trying encoder [nvenc] Error: Failed to locate an output device ... Info: Encoder [nvenc] failed Info: Trying encoder [quicksync] Error: Failed to locate an output device ... Fatal: Unable to find display or encoder during startup. Fatal: Please ensure your manually chosen GPU and monitor are connected and powered on. Info: Creating a temporary virtual display to probe for encoders... ... (same failures for all encoders: nvenc, quicksync, amdvce, software) Error: Video failed to find working encoder: allow probing but failedadapter_nameimmediately, which restored normal (physical-display-fallback) operation.
What I'd like help with
- Confirming whether this is the same root cause as #1531 (virtual display created but never appears in
QDC_ONLY_ACTIVE_PATHSbefore the polling timeout), and whether there's a known workaround for Optimus (iGPU+dGPU) laptops specifically. - Any additional diagnostics (registry keys, driver verbose logging, etc.) that would help pinpoint why the display never becomes "active" in the CCD topology in time.
Happy to provide more verbose logs / pnputil output if useful — didn't want to dump a huge raw log here since it contains client-identifying info (device names, EDID) that I'd like to redact first.
Source: ClassicOldSong/Apollo