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Black screen for 1-2 seconds while alt-tabbing a fullscreen game or using a Windows key
This is normal for exclusive fullscreen games. It has to reinitialize DirectX and have it take over the display again. Try using Borderless Windowed instead of Fullscreen if the game supports it if ...
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How can I play a SNES through a VGA monitor?
The original SNES, while certainly one of the pinnacles of the 16-bit era, doesn't come without it's issues. You might find that original hardware will be harder to wrangle, especially 30 years later ...
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Black screen for 1-2 seconds while alt-tabbing a fullscreen game or using a Windows key
The other answer is incorrect. This used to be normal for exclusive fullscreen games. However, beginning with Windows 10 v1803 (March 2018), Microsoft introduced a feature called "Fullscreen ...
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How can I play a SNES through a VGA monitor?
There are a variety of computer cards called TV Tuner Cards, many of which include TV Capture functionality - older ones often have the Cable or Composite-In you'll require (this is how I played ...
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Is it possible to use a Macbook Pro as a monitor for Gamecube or Playstation 3?
Unfortunately the answer is going to be the same. Your Macbook may have an HDMI port, but it's an HDMI Output, not an Input. The monitor is connected internally, so you don't have direct access to the ...
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After monitor upgrade Steam seems low resolution
I believe this might be a Windows 10 display scaling issue. Here's two things to try:
Windows 10 has a display scaling feature. I think for high resolution monitors, it essentially "zooms" in. The ...
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How do I set up Civ 6 on multiple displays?
First of all, it depends on your graphics card if it's possible at all and how to activate it. I can only tell how it's done with the DirectX 12 version on a Nvidia GeForce 970 (so with AMD cards the ...
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Why is screen refresh rate considered important in gaming?
Let's start with the easy one.
Can the human eye actually tell the difference between 60hz and 144hz?
Yes. It's one of these "you gotta see it for yourself" thing. 144hz looks crazy smooth. Even ...
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How to use your PC as a display for your Xbox One S
You need a HDMI input port on your PC and configure your PC to simply use pass though the signal. I highly doubt there is one, it's most likely a HDMI output port. So you can't do it. If your monitor ...
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How can the game be loaded on a different monitor?
Start in windowed mode, drag to correct monitor. Hit alt+Enter for fullscreen, quit and restart with windowed mode uncheck and thats it fixed
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How can I play a SNES through a VGA monitor?
Unfortunately going from Composite to VGA is not a simple process. VGA has 3 channels (RGB), while composite has only one channel. To go from composite to VGA, you have to do this:
Analog (...
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On a dual-monitor setup, how can I keep the game in one monitor without the browser windows on the other monitor moving?
This is happening because the game you are running is not running at the same resolution as the monitor you are on. If you adjust the settings in the game to match those of the monitor, you shouldn't ...
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Use ps4 on monitor as well as tv
I see two possible options for using a TV and a Monitor simultaneously:
#1: HDMI Splitter
An HDMI Splitter is exactly what it says: Splits the HDMI input into any number of HDMI signals. They come ...
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Curved Monitor and Xbox One Setup
No. According to the Xbox support site, the Xbox One only supports 16:9 resolutions such as 2560x1440. 21:9 resolutions such as 3440x1440 are not supported.
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Screen is cut on edges
This is a TV problem that happens with most 720p or 768p, but rarely on 1080p or 4K displays.
As mentioned on the comments, this happens because of over scan. Some TVs have settings to modify or turn ...
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How can I play a SNES through a VGA monitor?
There's no cheap way of connecting an SNES to a VGA monitor. The SNES can output Composite video (the yellow cable, poor quality), S-Video (round cable with four pins, sharp image with a slight amount ...
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Why does GTA V open with 'Not Optimum mode. Recommended mode 1440x900 60Ghz'?
It's just suggesting a resolution setting for you. You don't really say whether it gives you the option to change it at that moment or what monitor you have etc., but you should be able change your ...
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1080p on 4K display
The DSR article is about a 1080 display benefitting from 4K rendering, which is the opposite of your use case.
The image is a fair idea, except that 1080 is 1920x1080 and 4k is 4096x2160. 4096/2 is ...
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Playing games on older consoles with newer TVs with S-Video or better quality?
It may be not the direct solution for your problem, but there is this company in japan with great products for video capture, one of them is the XCAPTURE-1 you can get almost any input, and send to ...
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After monitor upgrade Steam seems low resolution
Adding to @Timmy Jim's answer.
This issue affects older Windows operating systems as well, and won't go away until Valve adds HighDPI support to Steam.
Setting Display Scaling to 100% will fix Steam'...
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How do I start Fallout 4 on my Primary Monitor?
The solution was from the launcher, set the game to start in Windowed mode.
From there, hit alt tab to get the mouse so you can move the game window to the desired screen.
Wait for the main menu ...
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Does the Nintendo Switch work properly with some 16:10 monitors?
This was a well known issue that was repeatedly reported to Nintendo on their official forums among other places and a variety of fixes have been released targeting the problem.
The problem was ...
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Around what year did games go widescreen?
Based on http://www.wsgf.org/mgl, widescreen support in some way, be it through external software, manually changing ini settings, changing registry entries, a command line flag or completely native, ...
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Can I adjust the aspect ratio on a Nintendo Switch to display on a 4:3 monitor?
No, it doesn't seem so. It seems Nintendo imagined that people would only connect to 16:9 displays and did not add any options in the Switch display settings.
I have been having the same trouble for ...
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TF2 Black Screen on launch?
According to this page, disabling Multicore Rendering in TF2 video options stops black outs.
Otherwise, like you said, this workaround works:
Rightclick the game in your Steam library.
Click "...
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On a dual-monitor setup, how can I keep the game in one monitor without the browser windows on the other monitor moving?
The positions of the windows on the secondary monitor are based on the relative position of those window to the resolution.
Not using actual numbers here:
So if you imagine that your monitors are ...
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Xbox 360 fails to sync with my monitor
If your Xbox interface is not HD, that means you're not using HDMI.
As you mentioned, you are using AV2 as your TV input, which means that you are using a regular composite (RGB) cable, not HDMI. ...
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