Fullscreen mode on second monitor?

kerp · December 2020

Since some time (The Reach or Western Skyrim, IMO since The Reach but not 100% sure) this feature is unavailable, at least for me. Two displays, nVidia card, DVI 24" and UHD HDMI 26". And the game runs fullscreen only on 1st monitor (24"). Now I run it in windowed mode and on every start I move it to the second monitor.

Can this feature be returned to previous state? Is there an option in the user settings or some other workaround?

kerp · December 2020

Oops. I am stupid. Just played a bit with setting ant the third option Windowed (Fullscreen) showed full screen.

But when I start the game it always starts in first display. Can this be fixed, i.e. can display number or some x/y coordinates be stored somewhere?

Now I start the game, press Alt-Tab to enter Windowed mode, move the window to second display, Alt-Tab again and then login.

x48rph · December 2020

If I'm not mistaken it just defaults to your primary monitor. I don't know of a setting to change that off the top of my head.

SirAndy · December 2020

For me, ESO always opens on the left most monitor (i have 3). I'm guessing it's because of the desktop spanning 3 monitors and the left one has the lowest x-coordinates.

I only see the width and height in UserSettings.txt, but maybe there's a setting one can add to specify an x/y offset.

kerp · December 2020

SirAndy wrote: »

For me, ESO always opens on the left most monitor (i have 3). I'm guessing it's because of the desktop spanning 3 monitors and the left one has the lowest x-coordinates.

Well, for me it opens on the right monitor. The wrong one :-(

ZOS_Bill · December 2020

@kerp

There are some suggestions in this thread which may help you get ESO to start on the correct monitor.