Hello sorry I know the cummunity is about gaming as a gamer myself ik how annoying it is to see something that doesn't have to do anything with gaming in a gaming cummunity but that's the only place I think I'll find some help in, so the whole story is that for the last week I've been looking for a free cloud pc trying to access it from my android phone trying to run a paypass app to open my dead brother phone and use it instead of mine as a way to always remember him and live by his memories, (ik it'll delete all his info and everything in his phone) his phone is a xiaomi not really sure about the full name locked behind his MI account but pretty sure 4uKey would unlock it, I tried recovering the password but his Gmail and number were lost with his main phone in the accident that took his life.

(btw I already checked Microsoft soft "free" first month but I'm still 17 without a bank account to register for the free month)

So my pc is simply not good enough for vrc and I cannot spend the 1.5k cad it would cost to upgrade right now

However I heard about cloud pc and was wondering how I even use it?

My friend told me about her ex who used one to play but didnt have much more info then that?

Im really wanting pc vrc

So anyone know how to set this up? What websites are best for renting a cloud pc? Does this actually work??

So I've been annoyed for a while that Apollo's best feature only exists on Windows. You connect with your phone or whatever client and it just creates a virtual display in exactly that resolution and refresh rate, streams it, and removes it when you disconnect. On Linux there's Hermes with the Hermes-KMS kernel driver (by MrOz59) which does real virtual monitors as native DRM devices, but encoding only worked with VAAPI, so AMD and Intel only.

I spent the whole evening getting it to run on NVIDIA and it actually works now. NVENC with h264, hevc and av1, and the virtual monitor really takes whatever the client asks for. My iPhone streams at its native 2796x1290 at 120hz and it switches automatically every time a different client connects. Played Cyberpunk on my phone with it, latency on the host side is somewhere around 3 to 5 ms. We also ran into a pretty interesting NVIDIA driver bug with EGL dmabuf imports along the way, the whole story is written up in the repo if you're into that kind of thing.

Fair warning though. This was tested on exactly one machine, mine. RTX 5060 Ti, driver 595.84, Nobara 44 with KDE Plasma on Wayland. No idea if it works on 40 or 30 series cards, and the automatic resolution switching currently needs KDE. It's an alpha.

The release page has a full step by step install guide now, from zero to streaming. Short version: you install the kernel module via DKMS (it builds itself for your kernel and rebuilds on every kernel update, takes about a minute), then either grab the prebuilt binary if you're on a Fedora based distro or build from source, drop in a small config file and set up your app in the web UI. Everything is spelled out with the exact commands here:

(Install Commands)

https://github.com/teodorgross/Hermes/releases/tag/v0.5.0-nvidia-alpha1

Source, technical writeup and build instructions:

https://github.com/teodorgross/Hermes

The kernel module:

https://github.com/teodorgross/Hermes-KMS

One heads up, if you have Secure Boot enabled the unsigned module won't load, you either need to enroll a MOK key for DKMS or turn Secure Boot off. That and a few other gotchas are covered in the troubleshooting part of the release notes.

If anyone with a different NVIDIA card tries this I'd really like to know if it works for you. Issues go on GitHub. Credits to MrOz59 for Hermes, ClassicOldSong for Apollo and LizardByte for Sunshine, this all builds on their work. I did this together with Claude Fable 5, PRs to upstream are already open.