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    Games on the 2nd monitor

    Hi

    Got 2 screens here. Is there any way (via shortcut / 3rd party program) to chose which screen an application starts on?

    Ultramon does this for some programs, but won't show the tab in the shortcut properties for anything 3d based annoyingly.

    I want certain games like UT3 to start on my secondary monitor (a CRT), but not all. I was hoping the nVidia control panel would have something in it, but can't see anything
    I can change my other monitor to the primary one, then it will run fine on it, but its annoying to keep switching

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    Re: Games on the 2nd monitor

    I believe this is a DirectX limitation, it only really works with the primary monitor.

    I think you can fudge it, but performance suffers (i.e. you don't get full acceleration) so not really much point

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    Re: Games on the 2nd monitor

    Primary screen only mate.

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    Re: Games on the 2nd monitor

    The only way to work it would be to flip which screen is primary
    don't know off hand of any way to automate that, the easiest way would probably be a feed switching box

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