I there a remote pc access program free or otherwise fast enough that you can game reasonably through it? Like could I be on a school computer and use this program to play a game running on my computer or are the programs/internet just not fast enough to handle that? And possibly a program that works on mac and pc.
Nope, there are paid solutions that are fast enough for video, but they also have too much control delay to play games.
if it was easily possible there wouldn’t be such a big deal about onlive.
check it out, thats as close as you’re gonna get to remote gaming
Looks really interesting. How do the people at onlive get rid of the system lag?
I just tried it for free. Works splendidly. I’d consider buying it but the games library is pitiful. Now I’m really curious, if they can do it, why can’t some remote access program do it? I’m going to fiddle around with streammygame as it looks like what I’m looking for.
Bump: Fuck Yeah! I got streammygame working and it works pretty well. Unfortunately the resolution is shit and if I try to play more advance games than L4D it start lagging, but it’s still pretty badass.
you’re welcome then
and the lag depends on your PC, I play crysis 2 on my EEE PC with streammygame, I think paid version allows for bigger resolutions, but you need a gigabit router and wired connection to minimize the lag
Thanks. 
And I’ve been running it over broadband because my home network is a little on the complicated side. L4D1 is completely playable. I get almost no lag. Strangely enough, I tried playing microsoft’s chess game and it lagged a little. Fallout New Vegas’s lag was unbearble.
maybe the internet is faster where you live, here everyone has 0 to 0.5 mb of upload speed and 30 to 150 ms ping to the closest location
Ouch. I get 2.5 megabits upload speed. Unfortunately, at my school, which is where I planned to be using this, the internet is way to slow to stream the game at at all bearable settings.
the school only needs good download speed, and low ping
It has neither. I think I’ll got he alternate router of hacking a school computer and stripping it of deep freeze so I can keep games installed on it.
You could try installing what you want to play on a external hard drive. I know someone who did that with his steam stuff all the time.
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Heh, yeah, an external would probably be your best bet, but like you said, school computers usually suck ass, and are not fit for gaming in the least bit.
The program can only be as fast as your internet connection (your schools AND your PCs). Not to forget all the work setting up a secure way of remotely connecting to your home PC.
How about you just do some work at school and play when you get home?
I used to keep wc3 on school computers, and lan it with friends during PE.
:retard:
I remember when I introduced counter strike standalone 1.6 to my school, soon everyone who had a flash drive and attended computer classes only played CS or starcraft, and soon after even those who weren’t supposed to attend computer class were there (absent from their actual class) and the replacement teacher was playing CS with the students because the real teacher had a nervous breakdown due to everyone playing CS in class.
Someone else got the blame for it but then I got busted for stealing a laptop from the mentally challenged class because someone was a snitch, later his house got robbed. 
Reviving this thread for a new related question.
I would like to be able to use my computer from my living room connected to my tv without having to move my computer every time. So I was wondering what is the best way to control your computer from a different room on a different screen? Is there an effective way to use a crappy computer attached to the tv and a remote access program? Or perhaps a program similar to remote access that is specifically designed for this purpose?