Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider
But that's not ideal when someone else wants to watch TV.
So to keep playing while others watch TV, I set up my gaming desktop to stream games to my under-powered six-year-old Acer laptop over WiFi, and it was incredibly easy, and free!
This method is designed to work with games on Valve's Steam platform, which is the most popular program for getting PC games.
If you have Steam, here's how to stream games from your main computer to just about any other PC connected to the same WiFi network.
Here's how you do it: