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First post, by jmcinvale

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I am running Dosbox on a laptop running Windows Vista with ATI graphics and have a question.

I have a HDTV connected to the VGA connector as a second monitor. I want Dosbox to run full screen on the second monitor, but when I switch to full screen it defaults to the laptop display. Any way to fix it?

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

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AFAIK there is no way to fix this. It's a limitation of SDL. BUT if I remember Windows correctly you can switch first and second monitor, so the TV is seen as first one.

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Reply 2 of 2, by jmcinvale

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Yes that is possible on a desktop, but not a laptop.

If the laptop had Nvidia graphics I could just send the application to the other monitor.

I got it. There is a button that switches the laptop display off and sends it to the external monitor.

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