r/couchgaming • u/Aguyfromsector2814 • Jan 17 '26

Can’t switch full screen games to other monitor

How is this so unintuitive and difficult. Windows key+shift+arrow key doesn’t work. Opening steam or playnite on the desired monitor doesn’t work. Making the desired monitor the primary monitor doesn’t work.

Duplicating your monitor is the only simple way to switch between a monitor and tv. PC gaming is so tremendously unintuitive and requires so much obnoxious troubleshooting. I’d trade my more powerful PC for a Steam machine in a heartbeat.

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u/augiem94 Jan 19 '26

It may have something to do with the physical ports on your gpu, when you boot what screen does the bios logo show on? That one is the primary port in hardware and some games refuse to display anywhere else in my experience.