Thread: Using 2 displays for local play
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December 29th, 2017, 02:58 #1
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Using 2 displays for local play
Hey everyone,
Im using Fantasy Grounds for local play on my PC and multiple monitors/TVs. My goal is to have the monitor on the left as my DM screen and the monitor on my right and TV ahead of me as the player screen. Im trying to drag a window from Fantasy Grounds to the monitor on the right but the window wont show up. Would anyone have an idea on how to drag a window outside the program so my players could see whats happening?
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December 29th, 2017, 03:21 #2
You cant drag a FG window into the second screen - you launch a second instance of FG, connect to localhost as the server name and drag that instance to teh second screen.
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December 29th, 2017, 03:21 #3
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Awesome ill give that a go, thanks
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December 29th, 2017, 03:30 #4
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Im having some problems getting this set up. Could you by chance walk me through it?
Last edited by Crusible; December 29th, 2017 at 03:34.
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December 29th, 2017, 03:36 #5
Are you using Steam or the Web installer?
If using Steam you need to create a manual shortcut to Fantasygrounds.exe and use that to launch FG.
Once FG is launched right click on the FG icon in the TaskBar and click on Fantasy Grounds to launch your second instance.
Put a different username in and then use localhost as the Host name.
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December 29th, 2017, 03:38 #6
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I am using steam. Ill give it a go thanks
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December 29th, 2017, 03:52 #7
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I connected to the localhost and had the second instance on the second monitor but i wasn't able to access anything from my first monitor. I ended up loading the campaign on both instances and running them separately.
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December 29th, 2017, 04:11 #8
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December 29th, 2017, 04:18 #9
You don't want two instances accessing the same campaign. Bound to end up corrupting something. As Damned says, the second instance you "Join Game" using the address of "localhost" with a name like "second" or such. That is then a "player" instance where you can show the map etc.
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December 29th, 2017, 04:45 #10
If you only want 2 (or 3) displays for yourself, right click on the background of FG select restore window to remove the "full screen" then stretch the window as you want to cover both your displays20161216_230059.jpg
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