Why does streaming your own PC still feel like homework?
What actually stops people from playing their own PC from somewhere else? Is it the internet? The hardware? Or is it the two hours of pairing apps, editing configs, and reading wiki pages before you play a single minute?
I’ve spent the last year building Axiom, a remote desktop made for gaming, and I can tell you the answer from the inside: the tech was never the problem. Streaming a screen with playable latency is a solved problem. The setup is what breaks people. This shows how the tools, not the technology, are what’s actually standing between you and your library.
What this blog is
StreamYourRig is where I write about the whole world around remote gaming — not just my product. Setup guides. Honest comparisons between Moonlight, Sunshine, Parsec, and whatever else ships. Latency tests on the worst networks I can find. And build-in-public posts about what we broke and fixed that week.
Three rules, posted on the about page and repeated here because they’re the whole point:
- Every performance claim comes with the hardware and network we tested on.
- When a post talks about our own product, it’s labeled. You’ll see the green box.
- Competing tools get a fair shake. Most of them are genuinely good software.
Why you should be skeptical (and read anyway)
A blog run by a product team recommending its own product is not exactly a neutral source, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But here’s the thing: the numbers don’t care who publishes them. A setup timer is a setup timer. When I say one tool took 40 minutes to configure and the other took 3, I’ll show the timer, the PC, and the network — and you can run the same test yourself.
Whether you end up using Axiom, sticking with Moonlight, or duct-taping something together yourself, my goal is that you leave each post knowing something you can check. That’s the bar. If a post ever misses it, tell me, and I’ll fix it and note the correction.
Next up: I’m timing the full Moonlight + Sunshine setup from a fresh Windows install, start to first frame. The stopwatch doesn’t lie.