Multiple Monitors

[Irinami]

My apologies if it's already been posted, but the search function is nigh unusable between the 3-minute limit and the inability to use quotes to force a string search...

Is there any way to get MTW to display on my second monitor only?

The game doesn't like to be ALT+TAB'ed out of. In battles and on the campaign map, during the normal times (not between turns, not during deployment), you normally can... but this is a pain and after enough ALT+TABbing back and forth it will crash. Not to mention that MTW doesn't support nonstandard/widescreen display resolutions. Man, it would be so much easier to enjoy the game--let alone PLAY it!--if it could be windowed or put on my other display. Other display is the TV, though, so I can't just put my main stuff on that: My main stuff is mostly text, and TV's have terrible font sharpness.

Any help at all would be great.

[BlackAxe3001]

I believe your graphics card can choose which monitor for stuff to load up on. It's in the software somewhere... I am too... inhibited... to check exactly what you need to do. What graphics card are you using btw?

[sapi]

Well, firstly, m2tw does support widescreen natively, so i don't know where you got the idea that it didn't from.

Secondly - why not just use your second monitor for whatever you need/want to alt+tab out of m2tw for?

[Husar]

Well, firstly, m2tw does support widescreen natively, so i don't know where you got the idea that it didn't from.
MTW <> M2TW.
For me at least.


Secondly - why not just use your second monitor for whatever you need/want to alt+tab out of m2tw for?
He said that he doesn't want to read text on his TV becuase it has problems displaying fonts.

Well, the solution should be in your graphics settings, somewhere most of them have an option to choose the primary monitor and so does Windows usually. Just right click your desktop and chose Properties, it should be somewhere in there, either under 'monitor' or in the advanced driver options.
If it's not, then you have a really crappy old graphicscard and driver. In that case you may want to look for a newer driver, that worked with the S3 graphics chip on my dad's laptop when we connected a beamer to it, the newer driver introduced the necessary settings.

edit: Just remembered the driver issue we had was because we wanted to mirror monitors and that is not possible in the windows monitor settings, but choosing a primary monitor from two should always be available in the monitor tab under properties.

[sapi]

@Husar

Oops - should have noticed that he was talking mtw instead of m2tw :embarassed:

[Irinami]

Husar, yours was the most helpful--it almost worked! Except Medieval (yes, not Med2) demands being the topmost application, and will not release the cursor. Still have to alt+tab out of it, defeating the purpose and the resolutions are juxtaposed. I could probably fix the latter, but the former is in my experience a behaviour of the program, there's very little to be done about it.

I'm an IT monkey by profession, so I'll keep trying (still got a couple tricks up my sleeve), but unless any of us posts more full successes it seems that MTW goes in the "Does Not Play Well With Other(Monitor)s" pile.