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The RigRentals launcher

Pick a game. It sets up a rig with the right GPU and enough disk for that game, then connects you — and the rig itself boots with a one-click icon for the game you chose.

You don't need it. Everything works in a browser, and that's still the fastest way to try us once. The app is for people who play often: it remembers your rental, picks the storage add-on for you, and launches Moonlight directly instead of making you copy an address into it.

Why does my computer warn me about this?

Because the file isn't code-signed, and we'd rather tell you that than hide it.

Signing means buying a certificate — a few hundred dollars a year to Microsoft's partners, and an Apple Developer account for macOS. It is a payment, not an inspection. Nobody at either company looks at the code. An unsigned app from a small team and a signed app from a malware author produce the opposite warnings to the ones you'd want, which is worth knowing before you take any of these prompts as a verdict.

We'll buy the certificates when the business can carry them. Until then, here is how to check the file yourself rather than take our word for it.

Checking it's the real file

Every build publishes a SHA-256 checksum for each download. If the number your computer prints matches the one shown on its button above — or the one in SHA256SUMS.txt — you have exactly the file our build produced and nothing else.

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\RigRentals.exe -Algorithm SHA256

# macOS
shasum -a 256 RigRentals-macos.zip

# Linux
sha256sum RigRentals-x86_64.AppImage

Each file is built by CI on the operating system it targets, from the same source published above — not uploaded from anyone's laptop.

Or skip the download and run the source

The launcher is one Python file of about 300 lines using nothing but the standard library, and we serve it from this domain in plain text. Read it first if you like — it's the same program the binaries are built from.

curl -LO https://gamingrentals.store/launcher/rr-launcher.py
curl -LO https://gamingrentals.store/launcher/launcher-ui.html
python3 rr-launcher.py

The -L matters: this site redirects .html to a clean URL, and without it you get an empty file and an app that opens on nothing.

Two files, no installer, no build step, and nothing fetched from a package index at install time — that last part being the bit of a "safe" app that nobody can actually check. You can read both before running either: rr-launcher.py and launcher-ui.html.

On macOS and most Linux systems python3 is already there. On Windows you'd need Python installed, so the .exe is usually the easier route.

What it does, and what it doesn't

• It never asks for payment details. Checkout opens in your own browser on gamingrentals.store, where you can see the address bar. An app collecting card numbers is indistinguishable from the thing you should be afraid of.
• It never asks for your Steam, Epic or Rockstar login. You sign into those inside the rig, in the real client. We don't want your game accounts and won't hold them.
• It talks to one domain. gamingrentals.store, and nothing else. It refuses to open a link anywhere else, which you can check in the source.
• Its window is local. The interface is served to your browser from 127.0.0.1 with a one-time token, so nothing on the network can reach it.
• It stores one thing. Your recent order IDs, in a plain JSON file in your own config folder, so reopening the app during a rental takes you back to your rig.

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