Third screen for launchbox and big box

[Miremare2025]

Hello

i have 2nd marquee screen on my system .

I like the features of both launchbox and big box , but when third screen is installed , you can only have marquee support on on or the other .

i currently have 2 launchbox installation ( 1 for lb and 1 for bb).

is there a way to be able to use the marquee 2nd screen support for lb and bb from one installation.

im running 13.20 lb and 6.0 third screen 

[superrob3000]

19 hours ago, Miremare2025 said:

Hello

i have 2nd marquee screen on my system .

I like the features of both launchbox and big box , but when third screen is installed , you can only have marquee support on on or the other .

i currently have 2 launchbox installation ( 1 for lb and 1 for bb).

is there a way to be able to use the marquee 2nd screen support for lb and bb from one installation.

im running 13.20 lb and 6.0 third screen 

@Miremare2025 there is no such limitation that it has to be "one or the other". If it's not working for you from both BigBox and Launchbox then please post the details (preferably in the ThirdScreen plugin thread). Also include your Logs/ThirdScreenLog.txt file. You'll have to enable debug logging in your ThirdScreen settings if you haven't already.

[CaptainGreenhat]

You have to go into third screens settings and add each monitor. Then once each monitor is added, you have to add game and platform media selections. Then you arrange them by priority. If you have multiple banners or marquees in the proper launchbox images folder, then third screen will select randomly. Of course nothing is stopping you from just putting a marquee in any of the launchboxes image folders and then just setting that.

For example you have two marquees and two marquee screens and you want them to be different images you can put one image in the marquees image folder, and then the other image in banners. Then set Marquee 1 to display images from the marquee folder and Marquee 2 to display images from the banner folder. 

Of course if you don't care then just put them in the same folder and like I said, third screen will select randomly. It also supports gifs so you can do animated marquees, or if you combine multiple images in a gif generator then you can have scrolling or even switching marquess. I don't have a marquee monitor myself as I am saving for a super ultra stretch monitor but I do this with my "sub monitor" for game controls (Rotates image between 8bit do arcade stick, original controller, control image from manual if available, and an xbox controller diagram). Third screen is crazy powerful, I have rotating clear logos on my upper left and right screens, and game snaps + game theme videos on my left and right desk monitors (old phones, w/ spacedesk over usb), I had stuff on my primary left and right monitors but ultimately I end up using those to watch shows and compute (left and right respectively). I haven't found any limit to the number of screens either.

Edited April 26 by CaptainGreenhat
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[CaptainGreenhat]

Also.... you really only need one installation. You are doubling the space everything takes and adding layers of unnecessary complication to your setup by having separate installs. Anything you edit (metadata, images, etc) in lunchbox carries over to big box.

Edited April 26 by CaptainGreenhat

[CaptainGreenhat]

Having an issue with one of my displays. Launchbox is using display one. NOT display 2. I can't find a way to fix this on my own.


I don't really know what happened but I think it was me using the space desk control panel to turn all my space desk screens off at once, something made third screen start detecting monitors as #43, #44, #45 etc. I am still not sure. I fixed it by turning off my pc, disconnecting all my usb spacedesk monitors, using spacedesk control panel to clear all the windows display settings and space desk settings, and then connecting them one by one. I still had to physically go into third screen and individually set all my monitors but it cleared up a secondary issue I was also having (one space desk monitor was disconnecting itself and another). All I can say is things get finicky past a certain number of monitors. I still have to get mtu splitters to add more but I also coincidently found the hards limits if anyone is interested. 

Space desk supports up to 16 monitors via usb/wifi/network cable, even on wifi 6 the experience wasn't great and lagged everything. Running everything off of usb2.0 and up and I have no lag (6 android devices). The hard limit to traditional monitors is as stated, your gpu ports but, if you have a beefy card you can half a connection. For example, if you have 4x4k@120hz ports (4 monitors) you can use a display port mtu splitter to half each port into two 8x2k@60hz (8 monitors). Third screen and space desk use surprisingly very very little cpu and ram so I am guessing a lot of the processing is still done gpu side so results may vary. I am rockin a 7900xtx gaming trio if that is relevant at all. Also, pixelcade devices work with launchbox but completely separately. And if you have a corsair icue nexus you can have it open to a unique display when it detects a program such as an emulator and you can add custom graphics or whatever to that. I'll probably come up with other ways to push the limits but right now the max seems to be 8 monitors per 4 output gpu + 16 space desk + 1 or 2 (if split) integrated gpu monitors) + whatever pixelcades max is + other stuff like icue, divoom, etc...... Word of caution, the more monitors I add, the more I find myself micromanging and going "Huh??? that was just working, what now?"

Edited 10 hours ago by CaptainGreenhat