Onehate Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 So it seems almost anytime I launch Bigbox it just picks and random monitor to launch on. I will go through the settings and assign it a monitor but next time I launch it its random again. It really has not been a big deal until I have started with gamestream and trying to launch it through my Shield. Gamestream wants to launch it off my 2k monitor instead of my 4k HDR one but thats another issue in itself. I need bigbox to launch only on my 4th monitor... Anyone have any clue if I can hard code any ini file and do this? I was thinking I could maybe make the ini file unwrittable if it keeps randomly switching.... any help with this would be awesome!! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onehate Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 Bump... anyone have any idea how to control what monitor bigbox will launch on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0badgers Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Having this same issue. Any fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 In BigBox go to Options > General. There is a setting there for which monitor is your primary display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hifihedgehog Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) That’s true too, but there is something else too: unless both monitors have the same scaling factor, LaunchBox will only show up on monitor 1 in Windows. I adapted a script that launches BigBox that will change the scaling factor to the same for both monitors to overcome this Windows limitation. Edited December 20, 2021 by Hifihedgehog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Also bare in mind these suggestions are for Bigbox itself, emulators handle that themselves, so if its emulators starting on the wrong screen then you need to look at the emulators settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akuma6498 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 On 12/19/2021 at 8:11 PM, Lordmonkus said: In BigBox go to Options > General. There is a setting there for which monitor is your primary display. That's for the Bigbox engine only, I'm having a problem with Third Screen plugin, after setting everything to my liking now my games are running on the fifth screen and can't find how to make my screen 1 primary for all emulation! 😓 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superrob3000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, akuma6498 said: That's for the Bigbox engine only, I'm having a problem with Third Screen plugin, after setting everything to my liking now my games are running on the fifth screen and can't find how to make my screen 1 primary for all emulation! 😓 Even with ThirdScreen, the primary display setting in Options > General is still what controls which screen BigBox will open on, and neither ThirdScreen nor BigBox control which screen emulators and games load on. Try it with ThirdScreen disabled and see if you are still having the same issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akuma6498 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 49 minutes ago, superrob3000 said: Even with ThirdScreen, the primary display setting in Options > General is still what controls which screen BigBox will open on, and neither ThirdScreen nor BigBox control which screen emulators and games load on. Try it with ThirdScreen disabled and see if you are still having the same issue. I figured out in my settings that the conflict with my 5 screens was Retroarch then on Video > Output > Monitor Index > choose the monitor number and that fixed the whole problem, even MAME that was acting weird as well! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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