Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to change which screen the game is on? Without changing the main screen in “System Preferences”.

Thanks, Toa

Hard to understand your question exactly, but I’ll give you an answer to what I think you mean.

If you use multiple displays, as long as your computer is set up to use them always, you can put the game into windowed mode (through options/graphics settings), then drag it over to the monitor you want. You may need to adjust the resolution when doing so (going to 2nd monitor and/or coming back to main screen) as you may end up with cutting off issues, but then putting it back out of windowed mode afterwards sets it back to normal full screen.

Tip: leave the graphics settings window open in game while swapping monitors to make changing the resolution (if needed) easier. Sometimes, if you forget while moving the box, you can lose the gear or game menu or clipping can occur. Pressing esc can still bring up the main menu if the top left corner is clipped off.

Okay, Thanks mate.

EDIT: I’ve just tried that out, and sadly it didn’t go so well.. I open up GW2, press options, graphical options and then i check the “Window” box and then I drag it over to my 2nd screen and then uncheck the “Window” box and it becomes fullscreen but it puts itself back on the main screen..

Well that’s bizarre, my husband uses that setup with his MBPr and his just stays there. His only problem is when he forgets to fix the resolution before closing the game on monitor and re-opening it later on his laptop screen. Have you considered playing it in windowed mode on that screen?

I’ll ask him later if he’s had this issue before. Sorry that didn’t work for you.

Well, if i have it in windowed screen it looks like this (Look attached file), and it’ll be pretty disturbing to not have the whole “gameplaying-area” visible..
But otherwise I’ll just play it on the main screen.

Sorry for delay in response. My hubs says that the only way is to make the screen you want to play on is to make it the main screen (as you mentioned). However, he said that you can drag the menu bar from screen to screen (like the application windows) to make that the main screen without opening the system prefs. Also, if you don’t keep the 2nd monitor connected at all times, you can set it as the main screen and if disconnected, it will default the other screen as the main automatically and when the 2nd screen is re-connected, it will go back to main again.

Sorry if this doesnt help your problem, it seems it’s just the way macs are designed.

No problems. Okay, I don’t actually have my 2nd screen connected all the time, we use the HDMI cable (I use for my 2nd screen)for our PS3 too Anyway, thanks for helping. Have a nice day