After launch the game sometimes extends the display on 2 monitors

maboleth · March 2016

I have two monitor setup and optimized game using Geforce Experience, Fullscreen mode.

On many occasions when I normally start the game, black screen will flash several times and then it will extend the loading "Bethesda Zenimax Havok" screen using the half of the 2nd monitor. The game will remain on the 1st display, but the mouse will be stuck on the 2nd display. Half of the 2nd monitor will remain black too.

The only cure is to force the game to close and start again. That usually resolves this issue. The game then starts normally.
Anyone experienced the same? If so, is there a proper fix for this? The only option that completely eliminates this from happening is to use Fullscreen windowed mode. But then I lose a bit of FPS.

Using Asus GTX950 card, W10.

Nestor · March 2016

Try the game without the Geforce Experience. It is a known problem for some people with this and other games. YMMV

maboleth · March 2016

Will try this for sure, thanks. It's the easiest route, though I must say GE is a nice program.

maboleth · March 2016

Unfortunately no. Geforce Experience is NOT causing this. I have terminated and stopped all GE services before starting the ESO. Still happened.

Nestor · March 2016

maboleth wrote: »

Unfortunately no. Geforce Experience is NOT causing this. I have terminated and stopped all GE services before starting the ESO. Still happened.

Are you using the Launcher or a shortcut to the EXE? Not sure if this would have any difference.

Sounds like the game is trying to initialize across monitors rather than on one monitor. Is there any way to force things to one monitor or the other? Might have to do this in GE (as I posted above, not all people have an issue, but disabling GE has fixed more than one weird problem in games) since GE does not cause you issues, that would be a place to try and see.

Another place to look is in Windows itself. Where you have the desktop either Extended across monitors or not. Play with those settings and see if there is any difference. You may not find an optimal set up this way but if you can isolate the behavior (happens in one mode and not the other) then it might point you on the path to fixing this.

EDIT

This might help

http://askubuntu.com/questions/45042/force-full-screen-game-to-one-monitor

Its for Ubuntu, but it might have some ideas to try.

However it may just come down to you needing to run the Windowed Mode if you still want your desktop stretched across both monitors.

maboleth · March 2016

Thanks for the assistance. I'm using the launcher. Yeah, it's like the game is trying to initialize wider resolution than monitor offers.
It always does that however - stretching the black screen during launch, but then eventually, it gets back to a single screen with a mouse, so everything is ok. Sometimes, it does not, so part of the 2nd screen is black with a mouse stuck there.

No useful things in GE to tweak. I will play with Windows and Nvidia control center and see if there's any force options. I do extend my desktop on 2 monitors without problems. Linux uses totally different video system and thank Auri-El, I'm not there. Been there done that. But thanks for trying to find the real cause with me.

If anyone experienced something similar, drop a note here please.

Thanks.