Font Smoothing/Clear Type disabled on RDP Session, color depth low

Hello
One of our customers has a new laptop Asus G771JM-T7021H with Windows 8.1 on it. The graphics, font etc. is good as long as he works locally. When he connects to the terminal server (2012R2) via RDP, the resolution and font is hardly readable. It seems that
the clear type is disabled, everything is blurry and pixelated. The color depth seems to be very low. We've checked the RDP-configuration and the graphic card driver but couldn't find anything wrong.
Any ideas?

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