AstroSonic65 Posted February 17 Posted February 17 Hello, I recently installed a secondary LCD monitor to display the game marquee. I was encouraged when the secondary monitor was recognized and I was able to extend the desktop to it. While in Bigbox and cycling through the various platforms or the games within, the secondary monitor shows the appropriate marquee. It's only after playing a game and returning to the Big Box menu that I run into trouble. Bigbox is no longer open on my primary monitor (CRT) but on the secondary monitor instead, and for a period of a minute or two I can't move the mouse from the secondary screen to the primary screen. Restarting BigBox resolves the issue until I play another game. I'm using Groovy Mame and Emudriver to connect to a 39" Sharp Image CRT and I have a AMD Radeon HD 5450 with the VGA connected to the CRT and the DVI-D connected to the secondary LCD display. I have the number of monitors in the MAME ini file set to 1. Although I'm not sure the issue is related to MAME as the same issue occurs when exiting games in other emulators. Is it possible the different screen resolutions for the two monitors may be the issue. The CRT is set to 640 x 480 and the secondary LCD monitor is 1280 x 1024. I'm running the most recent version of Launchbox/BigBox. I've reviewed the other posts related to the use of secondary monitor, but I could not find a resolution specific to this issue. Attached are a few pictures for reference. Any assistance will be most appreciated, thank you. Quote
AlfredaWeimann Posted February 19 Posted February 19 (edited) Go into Windows Display Settings to see if the CRT monitor is set as Primary Display? Raft Wars Edited February 20 by AlfredaWeimann Quote
AstroSonic65 Posted February 19 Author Posted February 19 Thank you very much for your suggestion, I've confirmed the CRT is set as the primary monitor and the desk top is extended to the secondary monitor. Thanks again Quote
AstroSonic65 Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 I know there are some options in the MAME ini file to configure secondary screens, but that seems applicable when using MAME without a front end like Launchbox/BigBox. Surely I'm not the first person to experience this, any suggestions would be appreciated. I would like to get this working properly. Thanks Quote
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