Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move the game window to another place on my monitor?

[nickjay]

So I just bought this game recently and was going to try streaming it today on my Twitch channel. I'm running on a PC with an ultra wide monitor so I wanted my streamlabs OBS on the right and the game on the left but it opens slap bang in the centre of my monitor (windowed setting) and I can't work out how to move it over to the left hand side! Can anyone please tell me if this is possible and, if so, how do I do it please? I've been on Google and on YouTube but can't find out other than the 2 monitor option which I won't need if I can move the game window over. Thank you guys.

[nickjay]

Nobody knows if this is possible or not or just that nobody else has tried?

[AIDSkillz]

Have you tried pressing Windows key + arrow key?
That moves every other open stuff, could work with ark to, havent tried myself.

[nickjay]

No, not yet but as it's the only suggestion I've had so far, I'll try it and see. Thanks.

[nickjay]

I just tried it and no, it doesn't work.

[zerassar]

You barely waited an hour before prodding the post for a response? This is a forum not an instant chat room lol. Patience!

You mentioned in your OP "windowed"... Was this correct or were you using "Windowed full screen"?

The reason that I ask, is that I also have ultrawide monitors. In windowed mode it starts in the center but I am able to grab it by the top bar with my mouse and drag it wherever I want to.

That said, the window bar appeared off my first monitor onto the second monitor above it. In which case if you're only running a single monitor you may not see it.

Attempting to use the auto snap functionality for windows (dragging to monitor edges) did nothing.
Tried to snap a chrome window to one side and see if the tile for Ark would show up to enable me to click and auto snap it to the other side... the tile did not appear in the options.

A work around would be to run Windowed (not full screen) but at a lower resolution height than your monitor. This should allow the window top bar to appear on your monitor then drag wherever you want. I tested this just now (1920*1200) and the game, on restart, launched centered to my main monitor in the new resolution with the bar visible.

Also tested with a custom resolution of 1920*1400 and this also worked ok also.

[nickjay]

Yes your point about prodding taken. I appreciate the help/advice. Yes "windowed" was correct. I'd been told holding down shift + windows then hitting the left arrow would reposition the game. It didn't but setting custom to 1920*1080 or 1920*1200 did show the white bar at the top but the bottom was below the task bar or whatever it's called so hiding that helped. I have been able to move it so thank you. Why even in windowed mode it's larger than my screen which is 2560*1080 I don't know. I presume the first number is the height and the second the width, is it? Now all I have to do is figure out how to do stuff. Moving is ok but I headed to the light and got killed by a damn dinosaur! lol.

Anyway thank you again Zerassar and apologies for the late response. Busy evening. Nick

[zerassar]

Originally posted by nickjay:

Yes your point about prodding taken. I appreciate the help/advice. Yes "windowed" was correct. I'd been told holding down shift + windows then hitting the left arrow would reposition the game. It didn't but setting custom to 1920*1080 or 1920*1200 did show the white bar at the top but the bottom was below the task bar or whatever it's called so hiding that helped. I have been able to move it so thank you. Why even in windowed mode it's larger than my screen which is 2560*1080 I don't know. I presume the first number is the height and the second the width, is it? Now all I have to do is figure out how to do stuff. Moving is ok but I headed to the light and got killed by a damn dinosaur! lol.

Anyway thank you again Zerassar and apologies for the late response. Busy evening. Nick

Second number is height.

My monitor is natively 3440*1440.
So dropping down to less than 1440 allowed the bar to be seen.

I suspect the problem is that the game is measuring it's resolution based on the rendered game itself and not the overall window size.

Thus why dropping the height down to 1400 made it visible.

Otherwise yes I was able to reproduce your experiences with lack of snapability.

[nickjay]

Just to let you know that after trying it for about 40 minutes using keyboard/mouse and not really knowing what I was doing, I decided to request a refund then shortly after that, I found an incredibly helpful tutorial video on YouTube with a guy starting from scratch and explaining everything including the key presses to do stuff. I wish I'd kept it now but onwards and upwards. I do hope for others in future they do something about that resolution hiding the white bar though. Anyway thank you again. Cheers, Nick