How To Change What Screen A Game Opens On

The subject of how to changewhatscreen a gameopens on encompasses a wide range of important elements. How can I choose which monitor a game starts on? This question and answer on Super User will do what you need: Change Display Arrangement via Batch/Command Line on Windows 7. The utility linked there can rearrange your monitor setup, run a game, then restore the original settings when the game is done. Read the comments for how to use it in a batch file to handle Steam games properly.

Can I tell Steam which monitor to open a game on? 8 I know this is a little late, but if anyone else pops in here is my two pence worth. All i do is switch my second monitor to the main display before starting the game then switch it back after I have finished. That way the game opens on my TV which is the usual second monitor.

How to move a fullscreen game to the second monitor? Some games, especially newer ones, will let you set the monitor to use from game settings. For those that don't let you do that, you can change your primary display or try borderless windowed or fullscreen windowed mode and then move the game to your other monitor. Depending on the game this could decrease or increase performance. From another angle, how do I launch Skyrim in fullscreen mode on a secondary monitor?.

I'm trying to play Skyrim on my secondary monitor (dual monitor setup). Short of changing my primary monitor, is there any way to force it to open there? Another key aspect involves, (I play in fullscreen). My initial guess wa...

How do I change the video settings from outside Starcraft 2?. I forgot to change the settings on my games to a lower resolution before heading out, and now whenever I try to open Starcraft 2, my screen goes black and I'm told that my monitor doesn't support the resolution. Is there any way I can change the video settings outside of the game so I can resume playing Starcraft 2? How to fix League of Legends loading on dual screen?. 0 I only have that effect when i go into a game and before the game loads (on champion selection) i switch to some other window on the second monitor.

If i don't alt-tab away until the load screen appears it loads fine on the primary monitor. I switched to windowed with borders so i can move the window into the right position if that happens. How can I use Steam Big Picture on my secondary monitor?. Similarly, i had this sort of setup a while ago, and basically what I did was just have my two displays show the same thing (duplicate displays).

That way I could just turn on the bigger one when I wanted to use it. But this means you can't really use both displays, since they both show the same thing. How do I start Fallout 4 on my Primary Monitor? The center monitor is primary.