Dear Support-Team and digital magicians of DayZ,
since the latest experimental update 0.51.125468 I got an annoying problem I experienced in the latest "Arma 3" update, too.
My Game keeps to start on the second (not primary) monitor, which is a TV (digital LED monitor, HDMI connected). I want to play on my primary monitor. In "Arma 3" I red this issue in some forums and I managed to solve it with the start-option "forcedAdapterId=0;" in the ".cfg" file. In DayZ there seems not to be such an option.
My only try for DayZ was to change the cfg-entry "adapter=-1;" to "adapter=0;" or "adapter=1;", which gives me control on which monitor dayz starts, BUT (and this is the essential part) then I have the problem that DayZ runs on primary monitor with the integrated Graphics (Intel HD 4600) only. But I want to use my much more powerful graphic-card, the Nvidia GTX 870M.
My Setup:
Gaming Notebook
Primary Monitor (integrated Notebook Display) plugged to Intel HD 4600 integrated graphics (I cannot change this)
Secondary Monitor plugged to HDMI of the GTX 870M
Conclusion:
It seems that there was made some changes since the latest experimental update regarding to this issue. As I said, Arma 3 gave me the same error one or two stable-updates ago. Maybe they are related to each other.
Maybe there is an intern program-issue with assigning monitors for a graphic adapter?
Hint 1:
All other games can run on the primary monitor (integrated display) while using the GTX 870M. DayZ can, on stable version 0.50 and earlier versions, too. Since patching to experimental 0.51 it can't.
Hint 2:
I already tried to select to run DayZ with the GTX in Nvidia Control Panel. No success.