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MAME on 2nd monitor in Windows 7
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jimmer:
Can anyone help with this?

I'm trying to get MAME to run fullscreen on my 2nd monitor (So I can stand up to play instead of sitting down). I can drag the AME window up to the 2nd monitor but when I fullscreen it (Alt+Enter) it jumps back to monitor 1.

it jumps back to monitor1 even when I set monitor2 to be the main monitor in windows control panel. It's like it will never forget which monitor is it's home.

I could try a fresh install with monitor 2 set as main I suppose. But then I don't MAME to be confined to monitor2 only.
DarthMarino:
Did you try toggling monitors with Windows Key + P?
jimmer:
thanks, Windows+P does the job  :)
 
Choosing projector only is a quick way to turn off monitors 1,3,4 and then everything is just on my high screen as I wanted. Well not quite what I was after, but it'll do.

Only problem now is my sound output is sent to the inbuilt speakers in monitors 3 and 4, and they go quiet when their input is cut (got rid of external speakers in a tidy up operation some time ago). Ah well, can sort that out with extra wire to top screen or to my boombox.

rCadeGaming:
Did you select the correct monitor in MAME's video options?
Felsir:
Check your ini file, there should be a setting 'number of monitors'. Set it to the number of screens you use. Within MAME you can then configure each screen individually (hit 'tab' in MAME).
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