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I have a problem.
I just bought a monitor that i plugged to my gaming laptop. My problem is that i would like to play on one monitor with an Xbox controller, while using my external mouse on my second screen. The problem comes from the fact that the game recognizes the mouse, so even if i try to use it on my first screen, it's gonna disapear and go in game on the second screen.
I've tried the dual monitor tools to lock the mouse on one screen, but it doesn't change anything : when i start gaming on the other screen, the mouse goes into the game and disappears from the first screen. I've tried to seperate the screens in the display settings of windows, but the same problem happens as soon as i start to play.
Is there a way to solve that ?
Thanks !
Best Answer
Achieving what you want on a simple Windows PC directly is going to be difficult and some games may exclusively grab devices anyway and prevent you from doing this. However, if you are willing to spend a large amount of time configuring things, it's definitely possible with more complicated setups.
Check out this question. It details 'multi-seat gaming' which is actually going to achieve what you want via VMs or multi-box software: one 'seat' will have your mouse, while another can have the controller. The game won't see the other input device and therefore can't grab it.Each seat has its own monitor and focus and you can therefore control multiple applications simultaneously.
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