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Two monitors and a problem
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Posted by Tomasz Krol at 11:19 AM on Jun 06, 2008
Post #1

I know that a lot of you have more than 1 monitor. I have two connected to 1 video card (1 through DVI and 1 through D-SUB) and it works great for all games and apps except RBR. The problem is that RBR chooses the second monitor to display graphics (but ironically the movies are played on the first one). This is a major issue cause my second monitor stands on my left and it's really hard driving this way, so either I have to move half the desk to place it in front of me or I have to connect D-SUB cable to my main monitor which isn't very comfortable as well.

Do you have any ideas how can I force RBR to display graphics on my main monitor? I have two video cards listed in video options but choosing each of them puts my second monitor into work. No other ideas come to my mind.

Thanks for any help.

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Posted by Tim McArthur at 11:56 AM on Jun 06, 2008
Post #2

It should launch to your primary monitor, whichever one you have selected as primary

Posted by Andrew Carson at 12:09 PM on Jun 06, 2008
Post #3

I know what your talking about Tomasz. Windows does weird things when you have a monitor hooked up to the DVI and then the second monitor hooked up to D-SUB. I fixed it just by flipping around the monitors using windows properties, or by using a little "D-SUB to DVI" plug (converter thing). Those little converters seem to come with most monitors/video cards these days.

Posted by Tomasz Krol at 03:23 PM on Jun 06, 2008
Post #4

That's how I have it configured Tim - windows sees the monitor which is in front of me as no 1 and primary display, and the monitor which stands on my left is no 2 and secondary display.
I did some testing and now I know that whenever I run RBR in native resolution of 2nd monitor rbr shows up on that 2nd monitor. And if I change resolution to anything else rbr pops up on my main monitor. So I can set res to 1440x900 and my main monitor is displaying it (finally!). But the FOV and HUD are messed up...any idea how to fix that? I know that camhack can but I don't want to use yet another program just to run RBR...
For now I stick to 1024x768 so my main problem is solved but the picture quality suffers from that poor res so it would be great if anybody knew how to run RBR properly in widescreen without camhack.

Posted by Jonty Couples at 04:26 AM on Jun 07, 2008
Post #5

My test machine - primary monitor 1440x900, secondary 1280x1024.

If I choose primary in RBR's video settings but 1280x1024 - it goes to the 2nd monitor.

If I choose primary in video settings but 1024x768 - it correctly goes to the primary monitor.

I don't even get the 1440x900 option. But!!! 1024x768 does not stretch to fit 1440x900 - it truly is 1440x900.

Vista, nVidia 7600GS btw.