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i just upgraded to 2 screens. and they both run fine. overlay fine but when i try to play league of legends, i also run spotify... forums ect. on the other screen. but i cant move my mouse over to the other screen once im in game. when im in the load screen i can move my mouse over to the other display. but whenever i interact with something the game minimises. i would like to be able to interact with the other screen when im playing the game to search stuff. change songs ect ect..... any ideas guys?

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i just upgraded to 2 screens. and they both run fine. overlay fine but when i try to play league of legends, i also run spotify... forums ect. on the other screen. but i cant move my mouse over to the other screen once im in game. when im in the load screen i can move my mouse over to the other display. but whenever i interact with something the game minimises. i would like to be able to interact with the other screen when im playing the game to search stuff. change songs ect ect..... any ideas guys?

You can't, clicking on the other screen while you are ingame is pretty much the same as tabbing out.

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Run the game in windowed mode?

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You can try to put the game in a borderless window, but that will only let you move the cursor out of the game. 

You can't interact with different windows at the same time. Unfortunatly Windows doesn't work like that. 

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Run the game in borderless mode then alt+tab.

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i just upgraded to 2 screens. and they both run fine. overlay fine but when i try to play league of legends, i also run spotify... forums ect. on the other screen. but i cant move my mouse over to the other screen once im in game. when im in the load screen i can move my mouse over to the other display. but whenever i interact with something the game minimises. i would like to be able to interact with the other screen when im playing the game to search stuff. change songs ect ect..... any ideas guys?

Try borderless Windowed/ windowed fullscreen for all games that support it, this will not tab you out. Also you could get a keyboard with media keys for spotify in particular for basic tasks.

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Try borderless Windowed/ windowed fullscreen for all games that support it, this will not tab you out. Also you could get a keyboard with media keys for spotify in particular for basic tasks.

thanks man. windowed kinda works. but create errors for some games in terms of actually gameplay

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