Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim>
Title: How do I launch Skyrim in fullscreen mode on a secondary monitor?
Question: I'm trying to play Skyrim on my secondary monitor (dual monitor setup). Short of changing my primary monitor, is there any way to force it to open there? (I play in fullscreen). My initial guess was that simply changing the graphics adapter would do the trick - but it didn't. I'm using Windows 7.

Answers:
sents: text: Sorry to bring up an old post, I write this only so if anyone else has this problem in the future at least the answer is out here
text: , I found that the problem happens when two lines are not in both the Skyrim.ini and the SkyrimPrefs.ini and those lines are:
text: iAdapter=1 sD3DDevice=
text: " Your Graphic Card Name Goes Here " normally they will be in the SkyrimPrefs.ini but not in the Skyrim.ini
text: so just copy them over and your game will launch on your second monitor like you want.
text: They go under the [Display] iAdapter=0 "Default Monitor" iAdapter=1 "Second Monitor" iAdapter=2 "Third Monitor" and so on Hope this Helps.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/41426/Little Old Me
score: 8
sents: text: Your best bet is probably going to be to run the game in Borderless Windowed mode.
text: There are a number of mods and scripts to force the game to do this.
text: This is the most popular one and was recommended when the question was asked here at Gaming.
text: SE , but comments indicate it's having problems after the latest patch - presumably due to Bethesda changing the way the games executable interacts with Steam.
text: This alternative provides a script for the free, popular AutoHotKey utility which claims to resize the window.
text: As always, YMMV as to the stability of the game with either of these options, especially this soon after release, while the game is still being very actively patched.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3129/LessPop_MoreFizz
score: 4
sents: text: In a post on the Nexus forum , a user suggests changing which monitor is your "primary": I have a set up with a 22" LCD and a 32" TV linked up to the same Nvidia card, running in dual screen.
text: I just set the primary monitor to the TV and so all games default to that.
text: Picking the right resolution in a lot of slightly older games is a real pain, but most of the time it's workable.
text: I would suggest you just set the other screen to be your primary, and change it back again afterwards, that should work.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/15288/copycat
score: 4
sents: text: When the game is loading on the Bethesda screen you can use Win-Shift-RightArrow to change the screen.
text: Once it is loaded and the Skyrim Screen show up
text: you can no longer change the screen using this method.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/210239/Jeff Berg
score: 3
sents: text: A workaround is to switch Primary and Secondary Monitors.
text: It works really well, but after you played you'll have to switch back.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/235999/LutinRose
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Change which monitor is your primary and set it back again afterwards.
It seems that swapping the screens where the game runs is an issue that usually is solved by setting the preferred primary screen via windows settings.