2 monitors to 1

[SindiDeVil]

I have been playing FF on my second monitor. I now have only one monitor, but when I start FF it displays on the non-existant second monitor. How can I tell FF to start on my one and only monitor.

[Kirika-]

Please post what you are using to play the game one (desktop computer, console, laptop, Apple computer, etc..)
And which operating system is used on your device.
If it is a computer/laptop, post which graphics card or accelerator do you have.

There are different processes for properly "removing" a display monitor from the devices for the different platforms that FF14 can be ran on.

[SindiDeVil]

New PC build, win 11, MSI 4070 graphics card. I just did a "clean" re-install of win 11, and am currently redownloading FFXIV. It should probably cure the issue. I probably had old configuration file somewhere that win transferred. Will let you know if re-install cures the problem.

[SindiDeVil]

Did a clean re-install of FFXIV, same problem. This is on a windows desktop, with a clean install of Win 11. MSI 4070 graphics card. FF was run on a laptop previously, with a secondary monitor. Thats where it is trying to run. What should I do?

[Casti_EL]

If you open the FFXIV.cfg file in Notepad (located in My Documents > My Games > Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn) there's a line that states something like "MainAdapter <GRAPHICS ADAPTER NAME>(\\.\DISPLAY1)" under the Display Settings Tag.

If it states something like \DISPLAY2 change it to \DISPLAY1, save the file and re-launch the game.

That should force it to launch on the correct display.

You can also right-click on your desktop, go to Display Settings and check what displays/screens the computer believes are available (in case it's still seeing the second monitor - which I find very unusual if it does after a full reinstall to be honest).

[SindiDeVil]

Found the file does not have a <GRAPHICS ADAPTER NAME>(\\.\DISPLAY1) in it. This is what I got: What can I do?

<Display Settings>
MainAdapter
ScreenLeft 4294965381
ScreenTop 41
ScreenWidth 1908
ScreenHeight 1005
ScreenMode 0
FullScreenWidth 1366
FullScreenHeight 768
Refreshrate 144
Fps 1
AntiAliasing 1
FPSInActive 1
ResoMouseDrag 1
MouseOpeLimit 0
LangSelectSub 0
Gamma 74
UiBaseScale 2
CharaLight 66
UiHighScale 0

[SindiDeVil]

Changed ScreenLeft 4294965381 to 8 and all seems to be working now. Looked at my wife's config.

[Votraftur]

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