Vertical games on my secondary monitor

[Kabuji74]

Hi,

I have two monitors, one for horizontal games and one for vertical. It works well but both monitors have to be on (first to select games, secondary for playing)

I want to make a setup for gameex to launch only vertical games on my secondary (vertical) monitor but I don't want to modify my actual settings.

Could I install GameEx twice with separate settings ? Or is it another way to do so ?

 

[RedDog]

@Kabuji74 I found this info on another forum:

If you have a file in the root of your MAME folder named mame.ini make a copy of this file and name it Vertical.ini then look for the line in the file that says OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS>screen and set its value to \\.\DISPLAY2 (It could be 1 instead of 2 depending on which screen is which on your setup).

I've not tried this and I do not know on what Mame version Vertical.ini and Horizontal.ini began to be supported, but you could give it a go.

 

I suggest against multiple installs of the same type of GameEx. You can install regular GameEx and GameEx Arcade Edition on the same PC though.

[Kabuji74]

Thank you for the reply RedDog.

I already have a setup with a vertical.ini and it works pretty well, but my purpose is to only have one monitor 'on' when I boot windows.

So I installed GameEx Arcade Edition, told it to launch on secondary monitor and configured it only for vertical games and it works !

Thank you again.

[stigzler]

You can control displays via this tool:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html

e.g.

 MultiMonitorTool.exe /disable \\.\DISPLAY3 

Combine this with LaunchBefore options in GameEx and this could also help specify which monitor to launch a game on.

[Kabuji74]

Thank you for the tip stigzler. I will put it in my toolbox !

[stigzler]

25 minutes ago, Kabuji74 said:

Thank you for the tip stigzler. I will put it in my toolbox !

My god - someone who says thanks in this hobby!