Game never opens on correct Monitor

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Issue: Whenever I boot the pc from a cold state and start World of Warcraft, the game never loads to the correct display.

I have 3 identical Dell Monitors, They are in order in my display settings 1, 2, and 3. I will call them Windows Display 1, 2 and 3 for the sake of troubleshooting here.

I am running a Evga 3080 card with the latest drivers.

When I check the display settings, (right click desktop > Display settings) I can see the monitors in the correct order in which they are displayed (Windows Display 1, 2, 3) From left to right

I want world of warcraft to open on (Windows Display 2).

Whenever I load wow, wow loads up on (WIndows Display 3), when I look at the display settings in game, it shows (Wow setting monitor 2).

Troubleshooting steps so far.

Completely uninstalled drivers. I used DDU to uninstall the drivers, I then rebooted the pc and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers.

When I load world of warcraft, it loads on (Windows Display 3), and in game the settings state (Wow Monitor 2). So then I change it to (Wow Monitor 3) in game, and it puts the game to (Windows Display 2)

Its a minor annoyance but I would like to resolve this as this minor annoyance is enough to push me into a forum topic on the matter. :slight_smile:

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Hey there, appreciate the assistance. Not sure which files you are referring to, could you please be specific?

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Update - This is still occurring and very annoying that the game will not start on the correct monitor.

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Make sure your config.wtf isn’t set to read only and that there are no addon managers that might overwrite that file, onedrive included.

After you manage to set WoW to use the correct screen, make sure to follow it up with a /reload to ensure the settings are saving.

EDIT: Just checked the config.wtf and the line you’re looking for is SET gxMonitor "1" so monitor 1 is monitor 1 in the config.

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Thank you for the assist there.

I opened config.wtf and It is set to open on gxmonitor “3” which is actually windows display 2. If I change it to gxmonitor 2, it will open on windows display 1.

What is really odd is, I think its all of my games doing the same thing. I tried to open cyberpunk and it is set to open on monitor 2 but it opens on display 1.

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Here’s a slightly more advanced thing you might try:

  • Open the start menu and type device manager
  • Under the view menu, click on “show hidden devices”
  • Scroll until you see monitors
  • Right click and remove device on every monitor, including the grayed out hidden ones
  • Click on the actions menu and select scan for hardware changes

You shouldn’t have to redo resolutions and refresh rates, but double check them afterwards anyways.

See if that fixes any issues with monitor orders in games. I’m not positive about how Windows orders monitors, but it could also be that it does it based on the output port orders or something.

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