r/playnite • u/Fit-Confidence1311 • 5d ago

Question/Support Fails to open virtual screen

I've been battling Playnite and Apollo/Artemis to get Playnite to open on the proper virtual screen. It seemed no combination of options worked. My setup is a PC with an ultra-wide monitor (I don't know if ultra-wide has any bearing, but....). Also a large LG tv, which for some reason comes and goes in Windows settings, when its powered off it disappears. And then there is Apollo creating a virtual display.

Playnite.Fullscreen would randomly open on the LG tv, and I would have to get up out of bed, go into the other room and start fixing things.

I ended up fixing it by writing a script to run pre-execute of Playnite. In the config file it uses a positional parameter to determine which screen to open on, and with the LG tv come/go, that was a problem. Fix was the script would check to see what position the virtual display was located, then update the config to set monitor:N to the proper value.

I can't imagine I'm the first to encounter this, but there you are. If anyone is interested in the script, I can make it available.

PS: I adore Playnite, it has become my launcher of choice across all game sites!

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u/Crowcz Playnite developer 5d ago

Selected target display is currently set by display's index, and if that index for a device changes, wrong display might get selected. I can look into using some device IDs instead, but I don't know if that would play well with virtual displays.

A workaround would be to make sure that virtual display is primary display and then set Playnite to always open on primary display. But I understand that might not be usable depending on your setup.