Can I force Steam to use a certain monitor for any game?

[Ghosttown]

Hi there!

I'm using a setup with two monitors, one is 21:9 widescreen and the other one 4K 16:9. I would like to know, if I can tell Steam which monitor is about being used. Some games feature a selection and I could simply switch the monitor-not-to-use off, but I'd like to keep it simple.

[Chadocan]

Actually, it doesn't, I have no issue with it at all

[Gridranger]

I'd like to add, that Steam is able control it, though it is far from comfortable.

In Big Picture Mode, you can select witch display you want use in resolution settings. Then it restarts itself on the selected display making it to your main one. Games will be drawn to that display after that.

But be careful! Steam manipulates the system wide display setting, so next time you log on to Windows the logon screen will be the newly set primary display (the display you played on).

Steam Big Picture will remember the settings .So if you made your TV to primary display with Big Picture, then you restored it in Windows, the TV will be the primary display again when you turn on Big Picture mode in Steam next time.

[Ghosttown]

Gridranger eredeti hozzászólása:

I'd like to add, that Steam is able control it, though it is far from comfortable.

In Big Picture Mode, you can select witch display you want use in resolution settings. Then it restarts itself on the selected display making it to your main one. Games will be drawn to that display after that.

But be careful! Steam manipulates the system wide display setting, so next time you log on to Windows the logon screen will be the newly set primary display (the display you played on).

Steam Big Picture will remember the settings .So if you made your TV to primary display with Big Picture, then you restored it in Windows, the TV will be the primary display again when you turn on Big Picture mode in Steam next time.

Thank you for that. It's really not very comfortable and really silly, since multiple monitors are not that new in the world of computers :D

[Randy]

Once in game, hit Windows key + Shift + Right/left arrow key.

[Wolfenburg]

When a game is in full screen use SHIFT+Windows+ Arrow key

[Iron_Side]

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

Steam has no control over which display is used by a game.

This is not true, the commands that exist for steam simply don´t work.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.