Game will only display in the wrong monitor

[Joe Shadows]

I partly blame myself. I had forgotten than I had installed a new NVidia driver earlier in the day without restarting, so my display setup was still a little bit confused when I installed and started the game for the first time.

However, now the game will only appear in my secondary USB monitor. If I try to open the monitor selection, it only displays "ONE" as an option. If I switch to windowed, drag it up to the primary monitor (and it is designated the primary display in Windows settings), and switch back to full-screen, it just appears back on the secondary monitor. All the resolution options seem based on this secondary monitor, as well. This continues even after multiple restarts and uninstalling/reinstalling the game.

I feel like if I could delete/reset the graphics config, that might solve the problem, but I'm not sure where it is. Advice on that, or any other solutions, would be very welcome!

[AccelExhilar]

Have you tried unplugging your second monitor and launching the game, then re-plugging it back in?

[Joe Shadows]

Originally posted by Samsquanch:

Have you tried unplugging your second monitor and launching the game, then re-plugging it back in?

Good idea! Unfortunately, it did not work. It literally kept trying to display on the ghost monitor. I could hear the opening cutscene audio, but that's it.

[LordBeavis]

I am having the same problem. It keeps switching to my secondary monitor for some reason and I can't get it to switch

[LordBeavis]

So I found a workaround. Going into settings > video, turn on Windowed Mode, click Save. Then you can drag the game window to the correct monitor. Hit [Alt] & [Enter] to go back to full screen or change it in settings

[Logiwonk]

It seems like battletech can get confused about which monitor is 1 and which is 2, switching to 2 put it back on my main screen. Lord Beavis thankls for the work around but I couldn't get that to work for me.

[Joe Shadows]

Hmmm. I tried switching back to fullscreen in the settings, and it didn't work. I'll try again with the keyboard shortcut, maybe that'll trick it successfully.

And yeah, I only have one option in my monitors dropdown—it seems to refuse to believe that my primary monitor exists.

[TorrentXL]

windows shift arrow keys, Should be able to switch monitors with that.

[desrtfox071]

Using -popupwindow may help you guys out. that's fake fullscreen.

[LordBeavis]

I actually tried the Windows Arrow Keys thing originally, that does usually work to move windows, but I think if the game is in full screen mode that doesn't work. It didn't work for me until I set it to windowed mode

[TorrentXL]

I dont know, as I typed it I was giving myself a headache switching it around to make sure I wasnt talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[BenDingo]

Just take it out of windows mode, then select which monitor it uses from the "fullscreen" dropdown menu. Labelled "one" or "two" that will change which monitor it displays on.

[Joe Shadows]

Originally posted by hillkillr:

Just take it out of windows mode, then select which monitor it uses from the "fullscreen" dropdown menu. Labelled "one" or "two" that will change which monitor it displays on.

You know what, you could have taken the 3 seconds necessary to read the original post or any of the follow up posts, but you did it. You pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.

Congratulations! You've contributing the single most useless possible suggestion. Your winner!

[lordcreampuff]

I figured it out on my triple display.

Go to Settings--Video
Turn off Windowed Mode
In the Full Screen drop down select the number of monitors you have

Once I selected 3 it displayed full screen on my middle monitor. Dunno if this fixes the issue for those running dual.

-LC

[DeLiRanTe_BR]

Originally posted by Logiwonk:

It seems like battletech can get confused about which monitor is 1 and which is 2, switching to 2 put it back on my main screen. Lord Beavis thankls for the work around but I couldn't get that to work for me.

I was having the same problem here. Solved setting the monitor to "Fullscreen - two". Thanks for the tip.

[PsyScape]

Originally posted by lordcreampuff:

I figured it out on my triple display.

Go to Settings--Video
Turn off Windowed Mode
In the Full Screen drop down select the number of monitors you have

Once I selected 3 it displayed full screen on my middle monitor. Dunno if this fixes the issue for those running dual.

-LC

This fixed it, thank you! :)