SingleInfinity
2 discussion posts
I've had an odd issue for a while (persistent through updates) where my two separate images for each monitor swap on their own. There doesn't seem to be any real indicator as to why this happens. It often happens on a restart, but also happens completely randomly sometimes. I made sure I don't have slideshow on as well.
It's happened enough that I've made two separate profiles, one with each background on each side so that I can just go to the other profile when it decides to switch. This has gotten a little annoying, and nothing changed in the 8.1 patch, so I figured I'd post and see if anyone knew of a fix.
One of the more odd things, my secondary monitor is fairly small, but it seems to scale the smaller background (made to size) to not be missing pieces in the larger resolution of the main monitor, along with centering it.
Details:
Windows 10
DF 8.1
Monitors - 1x 1920x1080, 1x 1440x900
It sounds like the monitor IDs may be swapping. Could you make a note of the monitor IDs in the wallpaper window, and then the next time the images are swapped, see if the IDs are also swapped?
SingleInfinity
2 discussion posts
Yep. It seems they are indeed swapping. I'm not sure why, though. They're on separate I/O (one's using Mobo + iGPU, other is using dedicated GPU I/O). Any way to prevent this?
RandomHost
2 discussion posts
The same happens here with Windows 10 and it started recently.
Monitor IDs appear to switch randomly on boot. Somehow, Windows 10 itself is still capable of figuring out what belongs where but DisplayFusion isn't.
The wallpaper is the only thing that changes. The "primary display" setting remains on the chosen monitor even though the ID changes and I think all the icons remain where they are supposed to be.
I think in my case, Nvidia somehow managed to update the drivers again without asking. Their recent driver versions are totally broken in terms of multi monitor setups and cause so many different issues that I prefer to stay on an old driver version which is known to work.
I think 353.62 is the latest one which doesn't break multi monitor setups. However, it's a nightmare to keep that version with all the stupid "we know better what's good for you" auto-updating happening without user consent.
When this happens, are the IDs that DisplayFusion shows different than the IDs that Windows shows?
