[RESOLVED] GameExArcade (ver. current Nov 25/2020) dual monitor game screen swithching to marquee monitor.

[funkydmunky]

Hi folks. As stated I have a dual screen setup. Vertical for the GameExArcade and a horizontal to the marquee's.

Software loads and runs completely normally. I scroll and select game and when I launch game it switches from my main display (monitor 1) to my second display (monitor 2). Marquees work fine as well up until game is launched and it switches to that screen. I have disabled the marquee plug-in for testing and it performs the exact same action.

It just simply want to switch displays on game launch.

Any help appreciated.

GameEx.ini

[Draco1962]

Please attach your log.txt file. Also, please identify the marquee plugin noted. Thank you.

One more thing, does the behavior occur when launching directly from MAME?

[Draco1962]

The following is from PinballX but sounds similar and may point to a solution from within MAME itself:

 

[funkydmunky]

Hi Draco1962.

I ran in MAME and had the same screen switch.

I used Marquee Masher 1.4.23. Is there another plug-in?

log.txt

[Draco1962]

There are no other marquee plugins that I am aware of that are still supported.

Did you look at the thread I linked to with a possible solution/work around for what you are encountering? It seems that the issue is within MAME and not GameEx proper since you report the same issue when launching from MAME directly.

[funkydmunky]

Yes I quickly had a look at that thread. It's a bit above my level, and the use case isn't the same. I will have to drop in a mame forum somewhere

Thanks for helping me narrow it down

[funkydmunky]

Okay got it going. Made sure "Screens" under "advanced setup options" was set to defaults. I don't think this was the problem.

And played with display properties. It looked fine but wasn't working as noted. Disabled, re-enabled, reset resolutions, disabled extended desktop, enabled extended desktop etc..

Finally worked. So it was stuck on something I guess.

Thanks for the help offered. Always appreciated

[Draco1962]

Glad you got it sorted and thanks for reporting back! Did you recently have a Windows 10 update? They sometimes can wreck havoc on multiple displays settings depending upon the nature of the updates.