Big Picture Mode switches main display

[YouinAnotherform]

I have 3 displays. "1" is my main monitor, 1080p. "2" is my 4K TV. "3" is my secondary monitor, 4K. "1" and "2" are connected to my GPU, "3" is connected to the CPU.

Whenever I want to play in Big Picture Mode (on "2"), it changes my display settings. It changes "2" to my main display, and moves all of the desktop icons from "1" to "3". After I turn off BPM, all goes back to normal. Is this supposed to happen? If not, is there a way I can fix it?

Also, you would think since I'm using BPM on "2" that games would launch on "2" but it seems sometimes they launch on "3". Makes no sense, but hopefully there is a fix.

I reinstalled Windows 11 fresh about a month and a half ago.

[Poppa Sandwich]

I would REALLY like an answer to this, as well.... Seems like SUCH a ridiculous leap in logic to think that because we have Big Picture mode on one monitor we also want that monitor to be our "main" display.

[BrokenShooter]

I really dislike it doing that.

[Satoru]

Note this is the default behavior of windows. Games always launch on the 'main' display that's how games work unless they have an explicit monitor selection, which most games do not

That's why BPM will switch your monitor's primary when you play a game, otherwise your game will launch on the wrong "monitor" because, again, nearly all games launch games on the primary monitor, not the monitor you 'want'

BPM does this because it HAS TO. Otherwise your games will always launch on your 'primary' monitor which you will then complain your games are not launching in teh BPM window.

[Mike]

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