Multimonitor problem

[Dark_Dragon26 10]

Well i didn't play the Alpha much yet. Basically just started and have in mind to do some testing this weekend. But i already found something:

If you have 3 displays and start the alpha over the desktop icon it starts (at least that happens to me) on the most left display instead of the middle one. "Same" thing happens when you start the Alpha over Steam itself. It then starts up in the middle display but you can't navigate the main menu with the mouse & if you change back to desktop with Shift + Tab and then again back to the game it is again on the most left display :(.... but you then can use the mouse to navigate in main menu again.

Would be great if this could get a fix as soon as possible.

[Lord_OverKill 1]

Well i didn't play the Alpha much yet. Basically just started and have in mind to do some testing this weekend. But i already found something:

If you have 3 displays and start the alpha over the desktop icon it starts (at least that happens to me) on the most left display instead of the middle one. "Same" thing happens when you start the Alpha over Steam itself. It then starts up in the middle display but you can't navigate the main menu with the mouse & if you change back to desktop with Shift + Tab and then again back to the game it is again on the most left display :(.... but you then can use the mouse to navigate in main menu again.

Would be great if this could get a fix as soon as possible.

*BUMP*

+1 for me, running 2 monitors, ASUS GTX 690 w/ NV 301.42 drivers (due to crashing issues with later versions).

EDIT: ARMA 3 can be forced to start on main monitor by turning off additional monitors, however the mouse still doesn't map.

---------- Post added at 11:44 ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 ----------

Dunno if you fixed this or not, but after about 7 hours of screwing around with the EXACT same problem, I finally got it fixed.

-Open Documents\Arma 3 Alpha

-Delete the Arma3Alpha.cfg

-Launch Arma 3 in Window Mode

-Drag the windowed Arma 3 to the primary monitor (If it opened on primary then obviously this don't matter)

-Go into the Options -> Video and hit AutoDetect, once it asks you to restart DO NOT HIT RESTART NOW, press OK and Restart it yourself.

-Launch it again back into Window mode and adjust your settings in this order, and remember NOT to use the "Restart Now"

-Ratio (If its incorrect)

-Restart it manually

-Resolution (It will probably be incorrect)

-Restart it manually

-Select Full Screen

-Restart it manually

-Now launch Arma 3 normally (the "Play Arma 3 Alpha" option on Steam)

To ultimately see if it will launch on your primary monitor, open the Arma3Alpha.cfg and on line 3 it should say "detectedAdapterId=0;" If you have your monitor as "1".

Hope this works for you as well and helps you solve the problem if you haven't already.

-Hells

See above resolution from another thread.

[Dark_Dragon26 10]

Well sounds promising. But I think when I finally have a triple monitor stand I could place the monitors a bit better.... then it wouldn't be such a big problem anymore (still needs a fix for beta/final version). However... thank you for the input. I'll try this out next time.