Read FAQ, need help with 2 monitor setup

[JudgeX]

I just installed GameEx, it looks really nice and seems to do most of what it's supposed to...

However, with my particular installation, I am using the "Output to secondary monitor" feature...

The problem I am confronted with is that it seems that MAME and other emulators want to run on the primary monitor and not the one that GameEx is on.

Does anyone have a solution for this, one that isn't "just use your arcade cabinet as your primary display"?

Thanks

[bkenobi]

With MAME, there is a switch to send the output to a second monitor. I think it's something like '-DISPLAY=2', but look in the MAME docs for the correct switch. I know it's there somewhere!

[JudgeX]

  bkenobi said:

With MAME, there is a switch to send the output to a second monitor. I think it's something like '-DISPLAY=2', but look in the MAME docs for the correct switch. I know it's there somewhere!

Thanks, I found this on my own after posting, it's -screen /.//DISPLAY2 or something very close to that. But, more importantly, I found a solution that seems to work for just about all other applications and emulators that might be used with GameEx...

For me, it was breaking out an old copy of Ultramon, which happens to have a very quick method of choosing the "primary" display. So, what I do is simply switch my "primary" output to monitor 2 while GameEx is being used, and leave the settings alone...

There are probably several other solutions similar to Ultramon, some probably even free, but, this is the one that solves my issue.

[bkenobi]

Yeah, -screen! I was looking for the exact switch, but couldn't locate it. Turns out I used the wrong search term.

I'm pretty sure that you can do this natively in the catalyst drivers from ATI and probably the NVidia drivers as well.