I do have a Liquidsky account and tested a bit the client. Their current Wine installer is a bit iffy though, so I installed the client manually. It does work very well except for the lag. The cloud computer for the moment is using Nvidia cards.
I still have few credits/hours left but I gave up until a closer server comes up.
Not sure what to say, I'm curious about the free (adverts based) option but it looks like they backing up a little. It was initially supposed to be up to three hours/day but now they cut it to only two hours.

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@ sr_ls_boy
Thanks for tracking down the issue :)

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It is a lot worse for HA (CSMT or not on Nvidia)

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BTW, if you want to benchmark the game:
-ao START_BENCHMARK true -ao BENCHMARK_SCENE_INDEX 1 -ao AUTO_QUIT_ENGINE 120 ConsoleCmd UI_ShowProfileData 1 ConsoleCmd EnableFPSLimiter 0
Results in: .../local/share/feral-interactive/HITMAN/VFS/User/hitman

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Quoting: kibbles

Quoting: dubigrasuView video on youtube.com

great video. my only trivial suggestion would be to move the videos up and shove a realtime graph in there. I kept watching the numbers but a graph would have been much easier.

Well, the way I see it the video section is for actual video comparison, as in: are the graphics identical (lights, textures, general feel) ? The FPS counter is just an extra feature, but not really relevant to that video comparison section.
I agree that a real time graph would be better than a FPS counter, but to do it in a consistent manner for both systems is easier said than done.
That's why I prefer to have two distinct sections: a) the video/graphic comparison and b) the detailed performance analysis in the results/graphs section.

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View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think John Carmack said something like that [External Link]

That's not what he's saying. He just basically advocates for what VP and Feral (not sure about Aspyr) are doing today.

VP's eON might be very much like Wine, but AFAIK Feral's IndirectX is a source level shim, and hardly in the same category. They do not wrap Windows binaries or do runtime API translation.

Yes, they are different approaches, but the essence is that he advocates for Linux versions using a kind of "emulation of some sort" (sic) instead of "completely refactored, high performance native ports".
So basically released/supported Linux versions (whatever the method used) distributed on Steam as opposed to "those people will just buy it anyway and use Wine."

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: no_information_hereI may be wrong, but I have never heard a dev say "We don't need to port to Linux, those people will just buy it anyway and use Wine."

I think John Carmack said something like that [External Link]

That's not what he's saying. He just basically advocates for what VP and Feral (not sure about Aspyr) are doing today.

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Quoting: X6205I will start take Wine seriously when they implement proper X-input support and XBOX 360 controller will work in the games. Not only in the wine joystick preferences..

The Xbox controller does work in Wine, with X360ce.
I have a set of dll files (generated once with X360ce) that I just drop next to the Windows exec and that's it. The gamepad then is recognized, Xbox icons are displayed and force-feedback starts working.

That being said, looks like in the recent versions of Wine (somewhere between 1.9.18 and 2.1) this method stopped working. I don't follow the Wine change-log closely but I remember something about changes in input support that might be responsible for this.

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Quoting: pete910Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN [External Link]

Try this and see what happens :)
            <key name="IndirectX">
                <key name="Direct3D">
                        <value name="UseVulkan" type="integer">1</value>

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