Windows 10 Dual monitors

[Sprouto]

At some point, some random Windows 10 update started allowing this to work again - but with one caveat - don't even think of alt-tabbing out. If you do so, the graphics driver will not recover properly (and this could simply be a graphic card driver issue) and you will not be able to return to the game (I personally just get a blank grey screen).

Having said that, I still use it anyways - cannot live without real dual screens.

[H-master]

At some point, some random Windows 10 update started allowing this to work again - but with one caveat - don't even think of alt-tabbing out. If you do so, the graphics driver will not recover properly (and this could simply be a graphic card driver issue) and you will not be able to return to the game (I personally just get a blank grey screen).

Having said that, I still use it anyways - cannot live without real dual screens.

Thanks for letting us know. Do you use a script or something? Or the build-in dual monitor settings?

[Sprouto]

Nope - no script - just the built-in dual monitor settings.

[RedX]

Are you on Win 10 2004?

[ZLO_RD]

i thought many streamers were using and keep using dual monitor setups just fine since long time ago (Heaven, BRNK)

[Rowey]

Brnk Usies the Dual Scren mod in the vault for his set up

[armacham01]

"Has anyone successfully run a dualscreen setup under Windows10? If yes, what are your hardware specs and did you use any tweaks or tricks?"

With 2 monitors, my 2nd monitor is in portrait mode. I found I can only use it by setting the resolution on the second monitor much, much lower. So i've got a "giant minimap" on my second monitor. But I rarely get to swiveling my head over there to look at it, and I have a regular minimap on my primary monitor. So it isn't actually doing much for me.

But there's not really anything else I could use the second monitor for. SupCom doesn't have the option to display graphs or other information, not that I would necessarily stop and read a graph during the game. It might be nice to just glance over and see a list of all nuke launchers and how far along they are, or a mex count along with some indicators whether i have spare mass I should consider investing in a mex upgrade. Or charts tracking economic factors like how much e/mass is in storage/overflowing or how severe a stall is. Like you would look over at the chart and it would show you for the last 60 seconds how solid your economy was, which could help you to make decisions about whether to invest in more build capacity/mexes or to pause factories or just leave things as they are. Or maybe that would just be stupid. It's hard to know how useful such things would be without testing them. I'm guessing it's just not very useful. Almost certainly not worth investing the time to design those UI elements in order to find out if they are useful.

[H-master]

Nope - no script - just the built-in dual monitor settings.

Ah yes works for me as well now. At first, it crashed when joining/hosting a lobby. But when I changed the lobby from being windowed to full screen it worked fine.

[RedX]

For me it doesn't crash it just... doesn't work either.

[H-master]

Was your lobby before switching on dual monitors, windowed or full screen?