Pause all screens except one?

[rogermorse]

I put a mini screen inside my case and it is an external monitor (not a sensor screen) so I am managing its animations and wallpapers with Wallpaper Engine.

I would like it to display still animations while I am playing etc (until now I was having the wallpapers always paused), especially the ones that show the time....

Is there a way to have the wallpapers run only on that screen, while having the other wallpapers pause on the other screens (I have 4 screens in total: one main gaming screen, 2 secondary screens and this little sensor / animation mini screen inside the case, which is always on).

[Tim]

Best way in your case would probably be to set up display profiles in the "Displays" option. You could create a profile where only certain displays are even used by Wallpaper Engine and then load that profile with application rules:

https://help.wallpaperengine.io/functionality/wallpaperperapp.html

[rogermorse]

Yes I was thinking I might have needed to do something like this (though a "pause" setting individual for a screen would be very nice in a future update...), but then what exception would you put, as to make only the screen n.4 ALWAYS active (no pause on this screen). Would be a bit stupid to have to put every game as exception in the profile OR having to switch to a profile where only screen n.4 is managed whenever I start a full screen app, if you know what I mean.

[rogermorse]

Anyway for the moment I'll try to just keep the screen unpaused. I am not even sure how much resources it would need...I have a 4080 at the moment, and I never checked the impact of not pausing wallpaper engine when I am gaming.

I did notice in the past only an issue with wallpaper engine and the denoiser of Adobe Lightroom (weird correlation) where I was forced to quit wallpaper engine in order for the denoiser to actually work properly.