Game decides autonomously to change active monitor after death

[Ofrollo]

Someone else have this problem? When my party dies the game changes the active monitor to my second one and I can't select my main monitor from the options anymore. To get it back I have to switch between the option of fullscreen and borderless windows countless times until it adjust itself.
Restarting the game also doesn't work, the game still show on my side monitor and I'm back to switch back and forth between fullscreen and borderless window.

[Kaldaien]

lol, that's bizarre.
You can force the game onto a specific monitor as a setting in Special K though.
Usually not used for ... whatever this problem is, but should have the same end-result and keep the demons out of your monitor.

[MiamiCereal]

Also having this issue, mine happens whenever i change zones, it switches from my main 1440p to my vertical 1080p. onmly fix is to completely exit game and reopen

[$11]

For what it's worth I'm experiencing the exact same problem as OP after zone change/loading screen. I try to Win + Shift + arrow key back to main monitor and Alt Enter but it always goes back to fullscreening on second monitor & main monitor stops appearing in settings.

Clunky af, relaunching doesn't really fix the problem.

[Theone]

Same, couldn't really find an answer. Sometimes between loading zones it switches to the other monitor and in that moment there is only one generic monitor shown in the settings. Pretty weird, getting annoyed at having to use win+shift+arrow here and there, will try downloading Special K as suggested!

[Kinlarak]

same problem here. after every death the game goes to the other monitor. very annoying.

[Delaoron]

I have the same issue, in Borderless Windowed. I used a workaround by using windowed mode and using some tool (like fullscreenizer) to make it full screen. Do that once after the game starts and there's no issue for the rest of your session.

[$11]

I've settled on the lazy "solution" and just set my display setting to single main monitor only (not extend) while playing, and then resetting back to dual monitor after exiting.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by $11:

I've settled on the lazy "solution" and just set my display setting to single main monitor only (not extend) while playing, and then resetting back to dual monitor after exiting.

How's that the lazy solution? That involves more work than all of the solutions proposed so far :P

Full disclosure, I wrote Special K, but I can guarantee you it's the simplest solution when it comes to amount of work you're required to do when launching the game. You just configure it, and you're done.

https://imgur.com/a/buMIIIr ("Prefer Selected Monitor")

Game will stay on the monitor you select, without you doing anything.

[Grausherra]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Originally posted by $11:

I've settled on the lazy "solution" and just set my display setting to single main monitor only (not extend) while playing, and then resetting back to dual monitor after exiting.

How's that the lazy solution? That involves more work than all of the solutions proposed so far :P

Full disclosure, I wrote Special K, but I can guarantee you it's the simplest solution when it comes to amount of work you're required to do when launching the game. You just configure it, and you're done.

https://imgur.com/a/buMIIIr ("Prefer Selected Monitor")

Game will stay on the monitor you select, without you doing anything.

Even with this installed and my primary monitor given preference, the game still hops monitors on me.

[Andrax17]

This happens randomly during any loading screen in the game. Its actually driving me insane. It just randomly moves from my ultrawide monitor to my secondary 24" monitor and my ultrawide is suddenly not even on the list of monitors in settings until I restart the game. The fact that this can happen at any time when the game has a loading screen is kinda killing the mood for me even tho I really like the game so far.

[Kinlarak]

here is an autohotkey v2 script that will automatically move the game window back to the main one when it gets moved to the other one

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0+

; Get monitor count
monitorCount := MonitorGetCount()

; Gather all monitor rectangles
monitors := []
Loop monitorCount {
    MonitorGet(A_Index, &left, &top, &right, &bottom)
    monitors.Push({left: left, top: top, right: right, bottom: bottom})
}

SetTimer(CheckWindowPosition, 100)

CheckWindowPosition() {
    hwnd := WinExist("ahk_exe SandFall-Win64-Shipping.exe")  ; Active window
    if !hwnd
        return

    WinGetPos(&x, &y, &w, &h, hwnd)

    ; Get the window's center point
    centerX := x + w // 2
    centerY := y + h // 2

    global monitors
    monitorNumber := GetMonitorAt(centerX, centerY, monitors)

    ; If window is on monitor 2, move it to monitor 1
    if monitorNumber = 2 {
        primary := monitors[1]  ; Monitor 1
        newX := primary.left
        newY := primary.top
        WinMove(newX, newY,,, hwnd)
    }
}

GetMonitorAt(x, y, monitors) {
    for index, mon in monitors {
        if (x >= mon.left && x <= mon.right && y >= mon.top && y <= mon.bottom)
            return index
    }
    return 1  ; Default to monitor 1
}

[Lokeon]

Same here, mostly happends randomly in "campament" stages and loading screens

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Grausherra:

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

How's that the lazy solution? That involves more work than all of the solutions proposed so far :P

Full disclosure, I wrote Special K, but I can guarantee you it's the simplest solution when it comes to amount of work you're required to do when launching the game. You just configure it, and you're done.

https://imgur.com/a/buMIIIr ("Prefer Selected Monitor")

Game will stay on the monitor you select, without you doing anything.

Even with this installed and my primary monitor given preference, the game still hops monitors on me.

You have to select the monitor from the list, otherwise no override is forced.

Overrides only apply once you've manually selected a display one time.

[Grausherra]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Originally posted by Grausherra:

Even with this installed and my primary monitor given preference, the game still hops monitors on me.

You have to select the monitor from the list, otherwise no override is forced.

Overrides only apply once you've manually selected a display one time.

Okay - I think I see what you mean. So I got that part to work. However it seems that when this bug occurs, the game feed remains on my primary monitor but gets locked to the resolution of my secondary monitor and then can't be adjusted LOL.

Guess I get to disable multi display.

[Andrax17]

Originally posted by Grausherra:

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

You have to select the monitor from the list, otherwise no override is forced.

Overrides only apply once you've manually selected a display one time.

Okay - I think I see what you mean. So I got that part to work. However it seems that when this bug occurs, the game feed remains on my primary monitor but gets locked to the resolution of my secondary monitor and then can't be adjusted LOL.

Guess I get to disable multi display.

It does sound like this multiple monitor issue could be related to the ultrawide issue that the devs are already aware of. Especially since the resolution bug happens even when you force the game to stay on the correct monitor.

"we are aware of the current bug on UW monitors that causes the incorrect resolution to display after a cutscene."