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I've installed my Triplehead2go for a few days now, but it seems that nearly every time I launch a "new" game (a game that I have not played in 5040x1050), it minimizes to the task bar.

The only thing I can do to remedy it is to change the cfg file for the game to run in 5040x1050 at 59 Hertz. But what if the cfg file for the game is encrypted or not available? Case in point, I cannot run GTA 4 at the moment. It minimizes every time I launch it, and even if I alt-tab into it, it minimizes back to Start Menu. Has anyone else had an issue like this with Th2Go?

I've installed my Triplehead2go for a few days now, but it seems that nearly every time I launch a "new" game (a game that I have not played in 5040x1050), it minimizes to the task bar.

The only thing I can do to remedy it is to change the cfg file for the game to run in 5040x1050 at 59 Hertz. But what if the cfg file for the game is encrypted or not available? Case in point, I cannot run GTA 4 at the moment. It minimizes every time I launch it, and even if I alt-tab into it, it minimizes back to Start Menu. Has anyone else had an issue like this with Th2Go?

I've had this issue. Some others have to. Games do this "especially on win7 and vista" when you give the triplehead a res it dosn't like. You need to configure it first, before using the triplehead.

Base Method:
1. Unhook 1 monitor and connect it to the secondary port on your card.
2. Make the Single monitor primary.
3. Open the Game.
4. Change the Resolution to something like 640x480 or 1280x1024.
5. Close Game.
6. Rehook the single monitor to the triplehead2go.
7. Make the Triplehead2go the primary monitor (automatic generally)
8. Start up the game.
9. Configure the game for triplehead resolutions. (Remember FOV)
10. Play the game.

Alternate Method: (used if game can be configured outside of game)
1. Open the Config File for the game.
2. Setup resolution and FOV.
3. Save File
4. Make Config file read only.
5. Play game.

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Hi suiken_2mieu, thank you for responding. I actually have 1 of my monitors hooked up to my 2nd video card port so I can do full 1920x1200 by just pressing a button on the monitor and making it in primary in windows display manager. With GTA 4, I was trying to put the game at 1440x900 @ 60 Hz on "single" monitor (where the game would launch fine), but it was still minimizing on the Th2Go setup. I did not try lower res, I'll try like 800x600 next time I think.

What I did to fix GTA 4 (as well as Left 4 Dead) was to force the game to launch in Windowed in 1280x720 resolution. I was then able to launch the game in Th2go in window and set it to 5040x1050 or 4320x900 fine.

I think the problem here is that the game is trying to launch at 1680x1050 or 5040x1050 at 60 hertz and it can't, or something like that. Kind of annoying, but at least I've kinda figured out a way around it by just forcing the game to run in windowed mode.

I have this problem as well and I can confirm it is a HUGE pain in my ass. I only have one video card ATM and I never had this problem back when I rand the side monitors off a secondary card when in desktop mode.

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