Launch to secondary screen

RetroArch General
#1

Hi all,

I find this project absolutely great, in particular combined with xbmc and RCB.

I performed a forum search but I didn’t find how to launch retroarch to a screen that is not the main screen… in my situation I have xbmc running on the secondary screen, so, when i launch a game from xbmc, the game starts in the primary screen, and this is very annoying because I have to manually move the window from one screen to another.

Is there an option that allows to launch directly to the secondary screen? Otherwise, will you consider this as new feature request?

Let me know.

I hope you will go further with the project, as far as you can :slight_smile:

Many Thanks

#2

There’s an option in RGUI to set the monitor index for fullscreen. I think if you set it to the monitor you want that way and exit, it should save the setting (assuming you have the option to save config on exit enabled). Not sure, but it’s the first thing I would try.

#3

I’m using RetroArch v. 1.0.0.2. I think it’s the latest. My O.S. is Windows 8.1, 64bit.

I can’t find the option you talk about. Can you tell me how to reach it?

This is my Video Options screen in RGUI:

#4

Hmm. Yeah, it should be down there toward the bottom. You could try one of lordashram’s nightly builds from the development subforum and see if it treats you any better. Otherwise, you might have to wait for v1.1, which should be coming out soon.

#5

I picked a development version and the monitor option index is there.

Now I can change monitor, that’s great! :slight_smile:

There also is a new problem… If I play contents in the secondary screen, with audio to the audio device 2 (HDMI), the game becomes slower and the audio is creepy, moving back only the video to the main monitor everything comes back fine…

I saw that someone else had a similar problem… I’ll continue to that topic.

For this issue, many many thanks :slight_smile: