Dual Monitors Switching While Running Full-Screen Game?
Some games support a Fullscreen Windowed mode along side Fullscreen and Windowed. This is the only way to do this, any Fullscreen application will minimise when you alt-tab.
Some games I know support this mode:
- World of Warcraft
- Rift
Some games will let you simulate Fullscreen Windowed mode. There are also probably applications that help with this (EveMon will do this for EVE Online). All Fullscreen Windowed mode really is is the ability for the application to take a normal Windowed version of itself and position it such that it looks like it's running in Fullscreen mode; ie, the window chrome is placed offscreen.
I was looking to be able to do this as well, surf the web/youtube on the 2nd monitor during down time in game . So here's how I did it.
Install a program called Actual Multiple Monitors (free ver.)
- Go to the window Settings and "Add a new window rule to the current list"
Now name it and fill out the directory to your game. Mine was
C\Program files\...\wow.exe.Under your new rule go to the "Startup" tab and check the "Ignore deactivation", Apply and Ok your settings
That should about do it. Your game will not minimize for anything... even if you wanted it to. The key combo (Win`) by default settings will switch you from monitor to monitor.
I am still working on settings to try and get it to minimize when i want it to, but you can always exit the game. Oh and i noticed on the Screen shots it says "pro only" even tho i am using the free ver.
