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Get BigBox to launch on my primary display


SiriusVI

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So here is the situation,

I mainly play games on my TV in the living room. However, sometimes, my girlfriend wants to watch TV and I have to retreat to my office and play games there. So I go to my office, launch BigBox and.... it launches on the TV, because that's what I'd told it to do when I last played in the living room. The problem is that I cannot access the option to change the monitor BigBox uses to my Display in my office, because BigBox is only visible on the TV screen. So I have to go to the living room, change the screen there, interrupt my girlfriend watching her show in the process, and then finally I can go to back to playing games.

Needless to say, this is not ideal. So my question is this: is there any way to make BigBox launch on what is set to be my primary display in windows? Kind of what RetroArch lets me do when I set the option to "auto"?

Thanks for your help, everyone.

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Sounds like what you have is similar to mine.  Basically your PC set to dual monitors.  The PC and the TV.

Here's what I did to solve this issue.  

Granted there may be an easier way and they're always be a different way.  But this one I know works.

Basically the link shows how to easily switch between single and dual monitors.  I've since set mine up where I created a popup menu ("Joe's Monitor Menu") and select the monitor configuration for starting BigBox.  Keeping BigBox always on the "primary" monitor.image.png.676a436b5a09315b324d014cdf9b8a10.png 

 

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