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Playing on second monitor

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited June 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I've searched the forums but I didn't find an answer to a question I have.

Is it possible to start STO on a second monitor, I have extended my desktop to a secondary device and I would like to play STO on that.

When I start STO it always uses the first monitor, if I want to use the second monitor I have to go to windowed mode and move it to the other monitor. This produces a warning:
Performance warning: this window is not entirely on the appropriate monitor, moving it to the monitor it was created for will greatly improve performance. You can disable this message with /disable_multimon_warning 1.

Any ideas?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Are your 2 moniters different?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Go into your display settings.

    Click on the monitor you want STO to start on.

    Select "This is my default monitor".

    Profit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Windows STILL doesnt handle Multi-Monitor setups in what I consider a "Professional" manner.
    You should be able to set each program an affinity for the disply to default to.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    yes what he said but.....

    if you use your mouse to change view angles (i.e. right click/drag) you will end up with your courser on the 2nd screen and its annoying as all heck. I had mine set up for 2 screens and it drove me crazy after about 30 mins so I reverted back to single screen SLI
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    CandymanCD wrote: »
    Go into your display settings.

    Click on the monitor you want STO to start on.

    Select "This is my default monitor".

    Profit.

    That doesn't really answer my question since all I do is switching which is my primary monitor. I want to be able to play on my secondary monitor so I have access to my taskbar without running in windowed mode or alt-tabbing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Joat wrote:
    I've searched the forums but I didn't find an answer to a question I have.

    Is it possible to start STO on a second monitor, I have extended my desktop to a secondary device and I would like to play STO on that.

    When I start STO it always uses the first monitor, if I want to use the second monitor I have to go to windowed mode and move it to the other monitor. This produces a warning:
    Performance warning: this window is not entirely on the appropriate monitor, moving it to the monitor it was created for will greatly improve performance. You can disable this message with /disable_multimon_warning 1.

    Any ideas?

    I think there is a way on XP onto tricking the display driver in to thinking your two monitors are one, but I think they would need to be the same size to scale correctly, try searching for WoW on two monitors that has been done on XP. If you have Vista I know that it was not longer possible there not sure on Win7.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Joat wrote:
    That doesn't really answer my question since all I do is switching which is my primary monitor. I want to be able to play on my secondary monitor so I have access to my taskbar without running in windowed mode or alt-tabbing.







    Right click the taskbar, UNLOCK IT, and drag it to the other screen.

    Profit again!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    CandymanCD wrote: »
    Right click the taskbar, UNLOCK IT, and drag it to the other screen.

    Profit again!

    Doh! Why didn't I think of that... Thanks a lot!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Joat wrote:
    Doh! Why didn't I think of that... Thanks a lot!



    One note for this setup. Your mouse will be locked on the game screen, if you click on the taskbar STO will minimize just as it does now. There is an option in video to run 'windowed maximized', this will do what you are looking for.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    CandymanCD wrote: »
    One note for this setup. Your mouse will be locked on the game screen, if you click on the taskbar STO will minimize just as it does now. There is an option in video to run 'windowed maximized', this will do what you are looking for.

    Yupp, noticed that and fixed it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    You get this silly red error message that says you're not displaying the game on the correct monitor...which will stay in the upper corner of the screen the WHOLE time you're playing it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Best thing about this setup is that I can play and post on the forums almost simultaneously... Wee! :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Joat wrote:
    That doesn't really answer my question since all I do is switching which is my primary monitor. I want to be able to play on my secondary monitor so I have access to my taskbar without running in windowed mode or alt-tabbing.

    I have dual monitors, so I might play around with it. Even if you get it working on the second monitor the game will still limit the cursor's movement to the game window so you'll still have to alt-tab or something to access the taskbar.

    I just use my second monitor to display Suricata's star chart, or other things I want to have reference to while playing.

    EDIT:
    CandymanCD wrote: »
    One note for this setup. Your mouse will be locked on the game screen, if you click on the taskbar STO will minimize just as it does now. There is an option in video to run 'windowed maximized', this will do what you are looking for.

    beat me to it

    I see you got it now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Krent wrote: »
    I have dual monitors, so I might play around with it. Even if you get it working on the second monitor the game will still limit the cursor's movement to the game window so you'll still have to alt-tab or something to access the taskbar.

    I just use my second monitor to display Suricata's star chart, or other things I want to have reference to while playing.



    Please read my posts.


    Edit: Your edit beat mine lol

    Joat wrote:
    Best thing about this setup is that I can play and post on the forums almost simultaneously... Wee! :D



    Makes it easy to....say...answer questions others have on how to do this :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    click "options" in the launcher,
    and type following in the advanced command-line-box:
    -disable_multimon_warning 1

    this will start gameclient.exe with this parameter and automatically disable the warning message!
    important is the " - " instead of " / "

    have fun.
  • milestfoxmilestfox Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Archived Post wrote: »
    click "options" in the launcher,
    and type following in the advanced command-line-box:
    -disable_multimon_warning 1

    this will start gameclient.exe with this parameter and automatically disable the warning message!
    important is the " - " instead of " / "

    have fun.

    Thank you for this. It's been bugging me for ages, since WINE always seems to pick the wrong monitor.

    (Arch Linux x86_64)
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    milestfox wrote: »
    Thank you for this. It's been bugging me for ages, since WINE always seems to pick the wrong monitor.

    (Arch Linux x86_64)

    And yet the answer's been here for 4 years, lying in a dead thread. ;)
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