How do I use my mouse on second monitor while gaming?

[The Pizza Thief]

I'm not sure if it's possible but I have 2 monitors setup at the moment, when I'm gaming on my main and I have trading sites on the second I cannot just pause the game and drag my cursor onto the second display, I found that the easiest way to go to the other screen is by Alt + Tab while playing steam games, and then I can go to the other monitor but my game instantly minimizes which I don't want to happen. Any solutions to this ? Thanks !! 

[TetraSky]

Have the game in windowed/windowed borderless, that should usually let you move your cursor from one screen to the other, without locking the mouse to the game.

[The Pizza Thief]

Just now, Abyssal Radon said:

Playing in Windowed Border-less mode should work.

 

Just now, TetraSky said:

Have the game in windowed/windowed borderless, that should usually let you move your cursor from one screen to the other, without locking the mouse to the game.

 

Did not think of that, I'm not 100% sure but I think I never play windowed because of my G-sync monitor, I think games have to be in fullscreen in order for G-Sync to work, don't quote me on that. 

[APasz]

Check in the NVidia control panel to make sure that g-sync is configured to work with windowed apps as well as fullscreen.

One thing to note is that you can only have one active window at a time so after clicking on your trading client, you'll have to click on the game to get control of it again. This is a limitation of practically all window managers.

[The Pizza Thief]

3 minutes ago, APasz said:

Check in the NVidia control panel to make sure that g-sync is configured to work with windowed apps as well as fullscreen.

One thing to note is that you can only have one active window at a time so after clicking on your trading client, you'll have to click on the game to get control of it again. This is a limitation of practically all window managers.

Thanks!! I got it now.

[Glenwing]

21 minutes ago, Brynjar said:

Did not think of that, I'm not 100% sure but I think I never play windowed because of my G-sync monitor, I think games have to be in fullscreen in order for G-Sync to work, don't quote me on that. 

That was true when it was first launched, but it works in windowed mode now with modern drivers

[The Pizza Thief]

1 minute ago, Glenwing said:

That was true when it was first launched, but it works in windowed mode now with modern drivers

Yeah I remember not being able to play in windowed mode when I started playing on this thing. Thanks for the info ! 

[HristoBB]

I have 2 monitors and i play in Borderless in order to move my cursor to the other screen.If u want to use the V-sync u have to make Full Screen ..no other way to do this.Although just a regular Alt+Tab works in Full Screen but it will minimize the game or with some particular games it will switch them to Windowed mode. 

[ivan134]

1 hour ago, Brynjar said:

 

 

Did not think of that, I'm not 100% sure but I think I never play windowed because of my G-sync monitor, I think games have to be in fullscreen in order for G-Sync to work, don't quote me on that. 

I don't think gsync stops working because of that. In fact, I think that's one advantage gsync had over FreeSync for quite a while before FreeSync got the same functionality.