Parsec has been a game changer (literally) for me and my friends for years.

We've used it for the incredibly fun online sessions and I figured I would both share some of what we've played and ask people for their stories too.

Did you know that some games like Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed and Call of Duty Black Ops 3 let you combine splitscreen and online play together?

One time, we played BO3 online, and we had some people invite their friends to join via Parsec to play on their PCs in splitscreen, while others joined from their own computers.

It was some of the most fun we ever had and when you combine Parsec with a game that supports this feature you can have big player counts and host people who don't have to buy the game while playing with people who do.

On top of that, we did something similar with Divinity Original Sin 2, which isn't splitscreen, but we each of us joined an online lobby and had another friend join via Parsec and they would take turns with the other player.

Finally, my colleagues wanted to play Counter Strike 1.6 but couldn't on their Mac books, so I hosted a LAN server with my mini PC and connected my Windows laptops to it and they then all connected via Parsec. Then I would take turns with someone whenever they were done playing.

Does anyone else have similar stories? What games have you pushed to the limit with Parsec? Have you ever done a hybrid session where you mix Parsec with other technologies to get the most number of people playing together?

My partner and I don't have an external keyboard, so we want to play Spiritfarer with our separate laptops.

I'm not super technologically literate but trying my best. Would Parsec or Arcade Soda be better, and would setting this up be as simple as sharing the link with them or is there an extra step I need to be doing? Do they need to also have Parsec downloaded or should I just have it downloaded?

Will it ever come back? Are there any alternatives to it aside from Soda arcade? I always liked the public lobby function and playing any game with random people online.

Whenever I connect from windows to my Macbook, after around one minute, suddenly the screen freezes. I have to then, disconnect and reconnect, or just change the codec or decoder which will restart the screen and continue working for around one minute and then the same thing keeps happens again.

What is weird is that the cursor is able to move and whenever I hover over a text bar the curser would also change...

And when I look at my Macbook I still am able to control it from my windows, but the problem is that the screen is not streaming for some reason.

Any solution to this? Thank you.

So basically that, I might be interested in getting to new people to play with. Most of the games I enjoy belong to the Wii Console. If you're interested over this, send your message here.

I know that this subreddit isn't monitored by Parsec, just looking for community advice and general knowledge in case anyone else has gone through this and has some insight (I suspect this affects everyone equally, lol).

To start with, here's my setup:
Gaming rig is an i7 14700k cpu, 3080 FTW EVGA card, 32gb ram running Win10 64bit (2.5gbps connection running on my modem's 10gbps port)
Remote rig is a Thinkpad T480 with 16gb ram running Win10 64gb (and literally nothing else- no bloatware, no software other than Parsec and it's dependencies) (1gbps network connection)
Second remote rig *used to be* a Raspberry Pi 3b running the linux version of Parsec (10/100 network connection)
My network is a: Bell FiberOp gateway modem with 1x10gbps port and four or five 1gbps ports.
All the above devices are hardwired with proper Cat5e cabling.
Parsec Free

Now I list the Raspberry Pi because this was my baseline for years, playing games like Destiny 2 and other FPS games on the regular with no issue, running at the standard 10kbps bitrate quality. Once this deprecated and wasn't supported any longer, I picked up the laptop and use it exclusively only for using Parsec in my living room.

Every attempt at bumping the bitrate quality sees video stutter when playing games (example: playing Control I'll pan the camera around and watch the camera stutter every 2-5 seconds) and then periodically see the 'network connection symbol' flash on the screen from Parsec. I'm scratching my head because this behavior occurs at -any- bitrate above 10kbps which makes no sense, given the strength of my hardware (granted the laptop isn't all powerful, it's exponentially more powerful than the Raspberry Pi 3b :p ).

I've tried running both intel and software decoding, 264 and 265 encoding and there is never an improvement or worsening of any kind, which hints that it's not a limitation of the laptop hardware (again, given that it's far more powerful than the Raspberry Pi is).

Does anyone have suggestions or (at the very least) explanations as to why it's acting in this manner? It would be nice to have a clearer picture when there's a lot of motion on screen if possible.

Hey there, I've been enjoying WoW Forever using Parsec and Controller.

It seems the latest update broke controller inputs being picked up.

Anyone else been doing similar and encountered any issues?

My shitty ass Lamborghini monitor the Odyssey G9 Neo has entered a bricked state and for the last 3 months I haven’t been able to figure it out. I’m going to leave it unplugged for another month or 2 as some have found that fixes it by it fully resetting.

Well this free app I got one day about a year ago figuring it’d feel free and be junk and I’d never use is literally the only way I’ve been able to use my tower the past 3 months without another monitor (the G9 is expensive as shit, I won’t buy another to toss this aside, I need to fix it). Games, Unreal Engine, Ableton to work on my music. I’m still doing it all because of this amazing app. Thanks for making something free that runs so well

A lot of people have been asking what the differences are between the official Parsec client and my ParsecWebTurn solution.

So I put together a little infographic (with some help from AI 😄) to highlight the key differences, features, and advantages of each approach.

And if you look closely, you might also spot a little sneak peek at something new I've been working on... 👀🚀

🔗 https://github.com/vampywiz17/ParsecWebTurn

Just a quick disclaimer: This is a personal, independent project with no affiliation to or involvement from Parsec. I originally started developing it for my own use, but I'm really happy to see that others are finding it useful too! 😊

Hi everyone!

I am looking for a friend to play a custom FIFA tournament with me, such as the Champions League. I would control half of the teams in the Champions League, and you would control the other half. We would play against each other.

If two of my teams or your teams are on schedule to play, then we would simply sim that match and let the game decide a result. Otherwise we play, of course.

Please let me know if anyone is interested. Please only get in touch if you are in Europe, due to lagging.

We can play on Fifa 14, Fifa 15, Fifa 17, Fifa 18 or Fifa 19.

If you own FIFA 13 or any other version and can host it, I am up for it.

Discord: Malibecks23

For context, I’m on a heavily debloated (WinUtil my beloved) Lenovo thinkpad (Windows 11) with an Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600

Whenever I try to connect to my PC (on windows 10, 2 GB VRam but a goated CPU) while the intel driver isn’t crashed, the parsec app on my laptop stops responding and windows crashes it after 2 minutes. I tried switching Renderer but all 3 (Direct3D 11 and 12, Vulkan) don’t work. I tried changing the parsec GPU mode in window settings but it didn’t work and atp I’m out of options I know about

E: forgot to say that it only crashes when connecting. If I re-enabled it while already connected it works just fine (until I disconnect, reconnect and crash)

I have used Parsec extensively in the past without issue but since yesterday it is not working properly: when I connect my laptop (client) to my desktop (host) the mouse works as you would expect except that the cursor icon does not show on the screen of the client side.

On the client side I can click and move the mouse even if I cannot see the cursor. The mouse on the client machine works normally outside of Parsec. On the host side I can see how the cursor moves around the screen when controlled from the client side. I can also move the cursor with the mouse on the host side, which works perfectly normally, and I can see how it moves on the client side without showing the cursor icon. Summarizing: all functions of the mouse works normally on client and machine side except the cursor is not visually rendering on the client side.

I have the virtual mouse enabled on both sides. I have also tried on the host side to turn on Mouse Pointer Trails and Windows Mouse Keys. I have restarted both machines. I have reinstalled Parsec on both machines using the latest version. Both machines run on Windows 11 and are up to date.

Any advice on how to fix the issue?

UPDATE 9/10/26: disabling windows insider program on the host solved the issue. Thank you Kamoz for the tip.

It's telling me that this computer is in host-only mode. disconnect or kick non-owner guests to connect to others computers. Once I daisy chaining it doesn't say anything and tells my friend client error.

Trabajo remoto con parsec, pero esta semana empezó a aparecer este error, mi jefe dice que es algo que anda mal con mi computador, pero estoy segura de que no, porque el aviso dice claramente que el host (el computador de mi jefe) no está transmitiendo video, y si me deja acceder después de unos minutos, no me deja usar el pc, le doy clic y no hace nada, alguien sabe cómo arreglarlo??

I made ParsecWebTurn for situations where you can’t establish a direct connection to your Parsec host. It uses the Parsec web client behind the scenes and sends the connection through Cloudflare or your own TURN relay server, so no direct connection, VPN, or Parsec paid relay service is needed.

It’s especially useful on company PCs where you don’t have admin rights and can’t install a VPN. It can also work on restricted networks that only allow outbound TLS on port 443, provided your TURN server supports that setup and Parsec’s website is accessible. Just extract the ZIP, enter your relay details, and launch—it opens an app-like window using the Microsoft Edge browser already on your PC.

Important: If you use Cloudflare, it provides a free monthly allowance of 1,000 GB of shared data egress for its Realtime TURN and SFU services. To use up 1 TB, you would need to actually transfer data at a rate of 10 Mbit/s for an average of about 7.4 hours every single day.

Disclaimer: The program some part are made by AI.

The title, I downloaded and installed the app on my laptop. The launcher doesn't pop up or anything. I did Control + Alt + Delete and it shows Parsec is being used. Please help, I want to play UMVC3 and MK9.

I'm having a strange Parsec connectivity issue and I'm trying to figure out whether this is related to NAT, firewall rules, routing, or something on my home PC.

My setup consists of three locations:

Remote server room

• PC-WORKSTATION-REMOTE
• File server
• Company firewall / VPN

Office

• PC-WORKSTATION-OFFICE
• Separate company firewall

Home

• PC-WORKSTATION-HOME
• Android phone

The strange part is this:

From home, I can connect to PC-WORKSTATION-REMOTE through Parsec without any issues from both my Windows PC and my Android phone.

However, when trying to connect to PC-WORKSTATION-OFFICE:

• My Android phone connects successfully
• My Windows home PC cannot connect
• Both devices are on the exact same home Wi-Fi/network

I can also connect from PC-WORKSTATION-REMOTE to PC-WORKSTATION-OFFICE through Parsec without any problems.

The only way I can get PC-WORKSTATION-HOME to connect to PC-WORKSTATION-OFFICE is by first connecting my home PC to the VPN hosted on the firewall in the remote server room. Once the VPN is active, Parsec works.

The problem is that this routes the connection through the remote server room and adds noticeable latency, so I'd really like to avoid doing that.

What I don't understand is why:

Home Android → Office PC = works

but

Home Windows PC → Office PC = fails

even though they're on the same Wi-Fi.

At the same time:

Home Windows PC → Remote PC = works

and

Remote PC → Office PC = works

Has anyone run into something similar with Parsec?

Could this be caused by Windows Firewall, NAT traversal/UDP behavior, CGNAT, different Parsec networking behavior on Android vs Windows, or some kind of routing issue?

Any suggestions for what I should check or test would be appreciated.

Error codes
6023 and 11002

Hey, I am playing with my friend (both wired, I am the client)

It was working smoothly for months but then suddenly we started to get freezes every few minutes where there would be a fast forward cycle where the stream "catches up"

We have decreased the latency significantly by putting maximum performance on the GPU, and have lowered the bandwidth from 50 to 10. The freezes seem to get a little better but it doesn't fix it.

When I disabled V sync, the N: 0/0/0 number stopped counting up the third digit every time it pinged, but after I fixed that, the freezes started to instead register in the log as me, the client going dormant and then reactivating.

I also tried rolling back the windows update that happened around when it broke.

Does anyone have a similar experience or know what could be going on?