I have a two-monitor setup and when I have a fullscreen game and I use the other monitor it tabs out of the game and I don't know how to fix it
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It depends a lot on the game, but this is normal behaviour for games that are set to set to use the exclusive "Fullscreen" mode.
If you don't want the game to minimise then you need to go into the game settings and choose one of the following settings which can use full screen, but as a conventional application window rather than exclusive fullscreen.
- Windowed borderless
- Fullscreen (windowed)
- Windowed
Make sure that the game resolution matches your monitor.
If your game has only a "windowed" mode then the program Borderless Gaming can toggle the game to use the "windowed borderless" mode instead. The application is available for free on Github via the linked page, but is relatively cheap and it does a great job, particularly with games that are ported from console and can have problems if they are not running as an exclusive fullscreen application. I am not affiliated with Borderless Gaming, I am just a happy customer.
Note that exclusive fullscreen (the one that minimises when you tab out) may be slightly faster for gaming. In practice you probably won't notice.
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