Playing games on Dual Monitors?

Helpmeplease!!!! · External Since: Jul 14, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two
monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
(extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD.
I know how to do that.

However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try
I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way
to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that.

Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?

PS- I'm running vista 32Bit

Spirit · External Since: May 19, 2007 Posts: 233

Can't you reduce the screen size of game and drag to other monitor? I can
here.

"Helpmeplease!!!!" wrote in
message
> Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have
> two
> monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
> (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the
> LCD.
> I know how to do that.
>
> However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I
> try
> I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only
> way
> to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do
> that.
>
> Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?
>
> PS- I'm running vista 32Bit

Andy · External Since: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 154

> "Helpmeplease!!!!" wrote in
> message
>> Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have
>> two
>> monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
>> (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the
>> LCD.
>> I know how to do that.
>>
>> However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I
>> try
>> I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only
>> way
>> to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do
>> that.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?

"Spirit" wrote in message

> Can't you reduce the screen size of game and drag to other monitor? I can
> here.

It depends on the game, some games don't let you go to "Windowed Mode" and
move the window around and on a lot of systems your primary monitor
(Assuming you're using 2 different connections on the SAME video card) has
the majority of your graphic processing power, and the secondary monitor is
just there for basic use like extended desktop stuff.

If you have a really powerful video card then you might be able to do this
on SOME games, but MOST games that use DirectX you have to run on your
Primary monitor.

Short Question: Is there a way?
Short Answer: Depends on the game, but usually No.

Coryrbk · External Since: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 1

On just a bout all of my games i have i can window them.. as a matter of
fact, out of about 18 games or so everyone i have got windowed ones like
MW2 and COD4 those were more difficult though because they didnet give
the option i went into my profile folder and put in the cfg_map or
something like that /r_fullscreen 1 (sorry for spelling guys Smile

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kuwlij · External Since: Mar 15, 2010 Posts: 2

Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote:
> Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have
> two
> monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
> (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the
> LCD.
> I know how to do that.
>
> However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I
> try
> I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The
> only way
> to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do
> that.
>
> Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?
>
> PS- I'm running vista 32Bit

Hey!
I've been having the same exact dilemma!
I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose
which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from
in-game options.

I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some
kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen
before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit
the game.

i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of
app!?
... anyone?

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kuwlij

niemiro · External Since: Jan 05, 2010 Posts: 5

kuwlij;1241872 Wrote:
> > Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote:
> > Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have
> > two
> > monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
> > (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the
> > LCD.
> > I know how to do that.
> >
> > However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I
> > try
> > I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The
> > only way
> > to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do
> > that.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?
> >
> > PS- I'm running vista 32Bit> >
>
> Hey!
> I've been having the same exact dilemma!
> I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to
> choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't
> support it from in-game options.
>
> I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some
> kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen
> before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit
> the game.
>
> i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of
> app!?
> ... anyone?

There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could
feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer, to
open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all through
the automated keyboard.

Richard

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kuwlij · External Since: Mar 15, 2010 Posts: 2

niemiro;1244139 Wrote:
> > kuwlij;1241872 Wrote:
> > > > Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote:
> > > Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have
> > > two
> > > monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
> > > (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the
> > > LCD.
> > > I know how to do that.
> > >
> > > However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I
> > > try
> > > I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The
> > > only way
> > > to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor?
> > >
> > > PS- I'm running vista 32Bit> > > >
> >
> > Hey!
> > I've been having the same exact dilemma!
> > I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to
> > choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't
> > support it from in-game options.
> >
> > I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have
> > some kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32"
> > screen before launching the game, then resets back the settings once
> > you exit the game.
> >
> > i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind
> > of app!?
> > ... anyone?> >
>
> There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could
> feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer, to
> open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all through
> the automated keyboard.
>
> Richard

You're thinking as in some kind of macro playback thing?.. hmm.. well
since my post I tried fiddling about with a program called Ultramon. a
feature of this prog is that it can save a kind of customized display
setting to a file which changes to it upon double click (or run).. so
what i did was set 2 profile settings, one with TV as primary then
another with 19" monitor as primary.. then in notepad typed in something
like this:

c:\(path and filename to TV as primary)
c:\(path and filename to game exe file)
c:\(path and filename to monitor as primary)

save this as a .bat file and use it as a launcher of the game you wanna
see full screen on the TV Very Happy

i guess, this is the closest we'll ever get.

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niemiro · External Since: Jan 05, 2010 Posts: 5

kuwlij;1244689 Wrote:
> > niemiro;1244139 Wrote:
> > > > kuwlij;1241872 Wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey!
> > > I've been having the same exact dilemma!
> > > I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose
> > > which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from
> > > in-game options.
> > >
> > > I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some
> > > kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen
> > > before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit
> > > the game.
> > >
> > > i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of
> > > app!?
> > > ... anyone?> > > >
> >
> > There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could
> > feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer,
> > to open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all
> > through the automated keyboard.
> >
> > Richard> >
>
> You're thinking as in some kind of macro playback thing?.. hmm.. well
> since my post I tried fiddling about with a program called Ultramon. a
> feature of this prog is that it can save a kind of customized display
> setting to a file which changes to it upon double click (or run).. so
> what i did was set 2 profile settings, one with TV as primary then
> another with 19" monitor as primary.. then in notepad typed in
> something like this:
>
> c:\(path and filename to TV as primary)
> c:\(path and filename to game exe file)
> c:\(path and filename to monitor as primary)
>
> save this as a .bat file and use it as a launcher of the game you
> wanna see full screen on the TV Very Happy

>
> i guess, this is the closest we'll ever get.

The problem is that there is no official API for the job. Some people
have reverse engineered an API, but these go out of date and are often
riddled with bugs. I will look into that program and see how it works.

Richard

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