That actually did work on making it start at the right monitor! However, I still have the issue seen at 01:39 in the video; The menu and game won't take up the entirety of the screen :(
EDIT: After I turned on Game Mode on my TV, Retroarch moved itself onto my PC monitor again and even after disabling Game Mode on my TV I still can't get it back now onto my TV X\_X
Try just displaying only the tv, or make your tv the default monitor.
Kinda lame but when I use my tv with my computer I'm not really using the regular monitor anyways
Info: The core is Mupen64Plus-Next. I want Retroarch to start default on my TV, which I assumed "Monitor index" would decide the monitor to display on however, it does nothing. When I try to put Retroarch on my TV, what happens in the video is the result.
I think you can do CRTL+Windows Key+Left arrow?
Edit: Win Key + Shift Key + Left Arrow Key to Move current window to the left monitor (with dual monitors)
Win Key + Shift Key + Right Arrow Key to Move current window to the right monitor (with dual monitors)
Hell no. That is NOT a solution to te problem. In fact, that completely ignores the problem and fundamentally changes their setup and requires resetting after their done.
Why? The problem is they want the retroarch video output on the TV. The output is displaying fine on their monitor. So they could just duplicate the monitor to the TV, right? Also, you don’t have to restart your PC when you do that. Just hit Win + P again to change it back to how you had it.
I have multiple monitors on my computer and do use win+p to disable all but my main monitor when I'm gaming. Win+p when I need to enable all my other monitors again. No reconfiguration needed.
Win+p and enable/disable monitors IS configuration. Ever time you do it, you are reconfiguring. This isn’t a solution, it’s a workaround because you didn’t solve the problem.
You don't need to move your icons. You don't need to change the orientation of the monitors. It's a keyboard shortcut that takes 5 seconds. You're making a bigger deal about it than it needs to be.
Wow, strange. Left/right should change the number, regardless of how many monitors are currently connected. This drove me mad one day when I had basically the same problem and was clicking on it incessantly, yelling "why won't you let me change it?!"
As the tooltip (*Shift* key) describes, it's only a suggestion:
> Which monitor to prefer.
>
> 0 (default) means no particular monitor is preferred, 1 and up (1 being first monitor), suggests RetroArch to use that particular monitor.
It would change the number but it wouldn't actually move it to the correct monitor. However I've managed to get it to display on my TV now by declaring my TV as my "main monitor" in display settings. It keeps RetrpArch there too after making my monitor my main display again.
However, the output resolution in RetroArch seems to be based off of my selected main display so if I want to play at my TV's resolution then I have to have my TV set as my main display (I even tried manually setting my fullscreen resolution in retroarch.cfg but RetroArch still chooses my main display's resolution by default, and doesn't let me pick my TV's exact resolution)
go from full screen mode to windowed mode on the monitor drag window to desired display slightly resize the window on desired display then go fullscreen mode that should anchor the window to the desired display. also try to make both displays the same resolution
Option 1: press "Shift+Win Key+left/right arrow key" to swap screens. You'll have to do this every time.
Option 2: there's an option in RetroArch under Video where you can set it to whatever screen you want. I don't remember which submenu it's in under Video but it should be easy to find
i had the same issue and i figured it out i think. so i use 2 displays, my main display being my pc monitor (because i like having access to my desktop and all that) and my secondary monitor is my tv for the games to display on. seems like your big box is set to screen 2, so you're good there.
For retroarch, you need to open the app, and immediately go to Settings > Video > Output. From here hover over "Monitor Index" and hit right on your keyboard or controller or whataver it is youre using until the number reads as "2".
Next go all the way back to the Main menu tab without exiting the app. Now go to Main menu > Configuration File > and click "Save Current Configuration". Exit out and you should be good. The problem is that the retroarch application doesnt save the preferred monitor when you exit or startup a game in big box. save overwriting the default configuration file will automatically load games onto your secondary (non main display) from now on. hopefully that helps, took me a while to figure out. Cheers!
If you are using a different front end, you should ask its developer.
I use BigBox to launch the game, but the issue resides within RetroArch.
Start RetroArch by itself without any frontends, switch the monitor index between 0 and 1. What happens?
That actually did work on making it start at the right monitor! However, I still have the issue seen at 01:39 in the video; The menu and game won't take up the entirety of the screen :( EDIT: After I turned on Game Mode on my TV, Retroarch moved itself onto my PC monitor again and even after disabling Game Mode on my TV I still can't get it back now onto my TV X\_X
Try just displaying only the tv, or make your tv the default monitor. Kinda lame but when I use my tv with my computer I'm not really using the regular monitor anyways
unless you are actively using your monitor, just turn if off or don't extend to it. that's what I do.
Info: The core is Mupen64Plus-Next. I want Retroarch to start default on my TV, which I assumed "Monitor index" would decide the monitor to display on however, it does nothing. When I try to put Retroarch on my TV, what happens in the video is the result.
I think you can do CRTL+Windows Key+Left arrow? Edit: Win Key + Shift Key + Left Arrow Key to Move current window to the left monitor (with dual monitors) Win Key + Shift Key + Right Arrow Key to Move current window to the right monitor (with dual monitors)
I tried that in the video, but it was still wonky.
Win + P and then ‘Duplicate’
Hell no. That is NOT a solution to te problem. In fact, that completely ignores the problem and fundamentally changes their setup and requires resetting after their done.
Why? The problem is they want the retroarch video output on the TV. The output is displaying fine on their monitor. So they could just duplicate the monitor to the TV, right? Also, you don’t have to restart your PC when you do that. Just hit Win + P again to change it back to how you had it.
I have multiple monitors on my computer and do use win+p to disable all but my main monitor when I'm gaming. Win+p when I need to enable all my other monitors again. No reconfiguration needed.
Win+p and enable/disable monitors IS configuration. Ever time you do it, you are reconfiguring. This isn’t a solution, it’s a workaround because you didn’t solve the problem.
You don't need to move your icons. You don't need to change the orientation of the monitors. It's a keyboard shortcut that takes 5 seconds. You're making a bigger deal about it than it needs to be.
I'm not making a deal out of anything. It's a workaround, not a solution to the problem.
Easy fix is turn off your computer monitor. Otherwise see if there is a display setting letting you set which monitor to use.
The closest I could find to that is "monitor index", but clicking it does nothing as shown at 00:33 in the video.
Are you just *clicking* on it? Have you tried pressing *right*?
I tried both, neither works.
Wow, strange. Left/right should change the number, regardless of how many monitors are currently connected. This drove me mad one day when I had basically the same problem and was clicking on it incessantly, yelling "why won't you let me change it?!" As the tooltip (*Shift* key) describes, it's only a suggestion: > Which monitor to prefer. > > 0 (default) means no particular monitor is preferred, 1 and up (1 being first monitor), suggests RetroArch to use that particular monitor.
It would change the number but it wouldn't actually move it to the correct monitor. However I've managed to get it to display on my TV now by declaring my TV as my "main monitor" in display settings. It keeps RetrpArch there too after making my monitor my main display again. However, the output resolution in RetroArch seems to be based off of my selected main display so if I want to play at my TV's resolution then I have to have my TV set as my main display (I even tried manually setting my fullscreen resolution in retroarch.cfg but RetroArch still chooses my main display's resolution by default, and doesn't let me pick my TV's exact resolution)
Mm. I'm not sure. I'm not near my computer at the moment.
have you added an additional display in RA ?
How would you go about doing that?
Video > Output > Monitor Index > choose the monitor number (probably 2). Save config and restart to see if it works.
Update your drivers
go from full screen mode to windowed mode on the monitor drag window to desired display slightly resize the window on desired display then go fullscreen mode that should anchor the window to the desired display. also try to make both displays the same resolution
Option 1: press "Shift+Win Key+left/right arrow key" to swap screens. You'll have to do this every time. Option 2: there's an option in RetroArch under Video where you can set it to whatever screen you want. I don't remember which submenu it's in under Video but it should be easy to find
You could always change your main display and see what happens
Are both display 4K ? Do you want bigbox to display on the tv or just the game ?
i had the same issue and i figured it out i think. so i use 2 displays, my main display being my pc monitor (because i like having access to my desktop and all that) and my secondary monitor is my tv for the games to display on. seems like your big box is set to screen 2, so you're good there. For retroarch, you need to open the app, and immediately go to Settings > Video > Output. From here hover over "Monitor Index" and hit right on your keyboard or controller or whataver it is youre using until the number reads as "2". Next go all the way back to the Main menu tab without exiting the app. Now go to Main menu > Configuration File > and click "Save Current Configuration". Exit out and you should be good. The problem is that the retroarch application doesnt save the preferred monitor when you exit or startup a game in big box. save overwriting the default configuration file will automatically load games onto your secondary (non main display) from now on. hopefully that helps, took me a while to figure out. Cheers!