Improve the use of the secondary display

Arjuna58

Arjuna58
It's much more immersive to play ED on a large screen, like a TV. It's good that ED lets us choose between primary and secondary display in the graphics option menu. But it doesn't work very well, and it would be very nice, if this part of the game would work much better.
I have 2 displays connected to my PC (and have seen videos of the hard-core gamers with many more), a widescreen PC monitor and a 55' TV, connected to the same nVidia card.
Since probably every player uses many of the external help tools to play the game, one has to keep switching focus between the two displays. It makes more sense to keep all the standard PC applications on the primary PC monitor.
Switching between the 2 displays doesn't work very well yet. When switching back to the secondary display, on which ED is running, its window keeps minimizing. One has to Alt-Tab many times to bring it back to full screen again. (I'm using Windows 11 and DisplayFusion).
It would also be very helpful to be able to choose the display in the Launcher.
 

ebbrell

ebbrell
Play game in borderless mode not full screen, it still fills screen
Extend your displays so you have two screens

By moving you mouse to left or right where ever you have the second screen set too, will work
 

Arjuna58

Arjuna58
Thank you for the replies. I was using full screen and now changed to borderless. It's much better now. I have no idea what the difference between these two modes is, but borderless seems to work much better, so I use this one now :)
For which use cases is full screen better?
 
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Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
I've got a couple of monitors laying around and was considering hooking up a second one, but I have no idea what I would use it for. What do you guys use your additional monitors for?
 

Riverside

Riverside
Marvin the Martian said:
I've got a couple of monitors laying around and was considering hooking up a second one, but I have no idea what I would use it for. What do you guys use your additional monitors for?
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If you don't have a use for it, knowing what others do isn't really all that helpful but I've used multi-monitors for years & kinda don't really get how others can get by with only one now ;)
 

Arjuna58

Arjuna58
Marvin the Martian said:
I've got a couple of monitors laying around and was considering hooking up a second one, but I have no idea what I would use it for. What do you guys use your additional monitors for?
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I use many additional tools to help with playing the game. Inara, EDSM, EDDiscovery etc. I find it much nicer and more practical to run them on a separate screen. I discovered EDDiscovery yesterday (I'm a beginning player), and it has a very useful tool to help find the best planets to scan, when you're exploring. I wasn't able to make it float over the game screen as suggested by the developer (maybe because I was using full screen), so I now have connected an iPad, and it works well as a “piloting console”.
 
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Arjuna58

Arjuna58
Riverside said:
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If you don't have a use for it, knowing what others do isn't really all that helpful but I've used multi-monitors for years & kinda don't really get how others can get by with only one now ;)
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I have seen other pictures like this one. Have you ever tried playing on a large screen TV? It's maybe a step between PC monitor and VR goggles :) In my case I put the TV in the same room as the PC and use a long HDMI cable to connect the TV to the PC.
And one could use chair mounts for the HOTAS like this one: https://www.monster.tech/en/product-category/chair-mounts/ :)
 
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Riverside

Riverside
Arjuna58 said:
I have seen other pictures like this one. Have you ever tried playing on a large screen TV? It's maybe a step between PC monitor and VR goggles :) In my case I put the TV in the same room as the PC and use a long HDMI cable to connect the TV to the PC.
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I used to play racing sims & had 3x 24" monitors. My desk is 2m wide & there is just enough room for that between a wall on the right & a bookcase on the left.

Playing ED I found the extremely wide but not very tall view wasn't that useful, I need to be able to look up & down as well as to the sides so my centre monitor is now a 43" 4k 60Hz monitor (essentially a cheap widescreen telly without a tuner). I sit at the same distance from it as I did with my old 1080p 24" centre monitor so the apparent pixel size is unchanged, but I have 4x the viewing area. All three monitors are connected via displayport to a 1080ti GPU which can just about handle Odyssey at 4k with an acceptable framerate & image quality.

I don't have room for a bigger monitor, and if I had a bigger one the pixel size would be larger than what I have now anyway unless I sat further away :)

I have a 65" telly in the living room, with a PC attached to that. It's okay but not really optimal for my use unless I sit in the middle of the room :)

I'd like to be able to run the centre monitor at a higher refresh rate & framerate but that would require a much beefier GPU and a much more expensive monitor so where I am right now is good enough. I do miss the 144Hz framerate of my old 24" monitor but 60Hz is good enough & a lot more affordable ;)
 
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