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Hi,

 

Maybe it's already been discussed and I didn't find the thread, but I discovered an unexpected scenario: I have two monitors and cannot move DCS to display on the other one. I don't want multi monitor setup, I just want to show it on one monitor. Right now it always displays on monitor 1, as defined in windows.

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By default DCS shows on the screen you designate in Windows as your main display. If you uncheck "Full Screen View" in settings, you should be able to move it to the other screen. The other option would be to make the screen you want DCS on the main display in Windows.

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If making that screen the main display in Windows would have worked for me, I would have already done that. I'm looking for alternate solutions. I did uncheck the full screen button, but basically nothing happens, it's not like I see a window bar which I can drag and drop to the other monitor. To me, full screen or not, it looks the same. If it's a borderless window, then I can't drag it.

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create a custom monitor LUA

 

and change the coordinates from 0,0, for X/Y to -1920 for x to move left, and 1920 to move right on 1080p screens.

 

Setting a display as the "Primary Windows Display" also works, as I do it all the time.

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Well I already tried that on the file I think was the default config for DCS2.5, called 1Camera.lua. Nothing changed.

There are also 2 properties, viewDx and viewDy, both set to zero. I'm not sure if I should modify those as well.

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No, those determine your view direction. I would do what Skate mentioned but set your resolution to your total horizontal resolution. So if you have 2 x full HD monitors you'd set your resolution to 3840 ingame and set your viewport to 1920x1080 but with an x-offset of 1920 (or -1920 depending on where you 2nd monitor is).

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Ok, so in the end I got mixed results. The thing I had never done before was to set resolution to 3840. Now I get it to display on the second monitor, and my primary monitor is black. All this only works in-game, the main menu, settings, map editor etc are still displaying wherever the hell they want.

I guess that's the most I can get. Either that or rearrange monitors in Windows every time I play DCS

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Just make the monitor you want to display DCS on your default in windows.

 

I have three monitors currently my main monitor is in the middle, the other two on each side, I display DCS on the middle one, DCS chooses the middle one without any editing as it is my default one in windows.


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Now I get it to display on the second monitor, and my primary monitor is black.[
Then you probably didn't set the X coord from the viewport right.

 

In case you didn't yet, you can also define your GUI window. Add something like this to your monitor configuration:

 

GUI =

{

x = 1920; -- Maybe needs to be 0 or -1920

y = 0;

width = 1920;

height = 1080;

}

 

UIMainView = GUI


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That's what I did, and as I said, I got it to display on the second monitor, which was what I wanted, but the primary monitor was black, because my secondary monitor is actually on the left side.

But the main problem with this is that the menus and mission editor cannot be changed, they are always displayed on the primary monitor.

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So i assume you have 2 monitors, left and right, left is your main monitor as defined in windows but you want DCS to show on the right monitor right?

Can you post your monitor setup file (or contents of)?


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