Frozen on second screen output
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 01:34
I'm running Resolume 4 Avenue (on Windows 7, just the trial version for now while I fiddle with it) and for the first time today I had access to a second screen to play with the output. The second screen (widescreen TV in this case, HDMI output) works fine in general, been watching movies with it and everything. I opened Resolume and selected "fullscreen" from the output menu, and then everything broke.
Now I get only a black screen - on the primary monitor, not the second one. I can't alt+tab out or alt+enter. Alt+f4 doesn't work either. If I Ctrl+Alt+Del, the black display (which is my fullscreen output) is minimized, but I can't interact with anything else. If I try to go back into Resolume to disable the output, I can't click on anything. I click once and the pointer disappears. I click again and it comes back. But I can't interact with anything or even close the program without shutting down the process from the task manager. I tried restarting Resolume but the fullscreen is open from the start, and the whole process begins again.
For now the only thing I can think of to do is reinstall the software and start from scratch (I'm downloading the installer now). But it's going to be a pain to have to set up all my options and libraries again, and I'd like to know what's causing this problem so I can avoid it in the future. Any ideas? Sorry if this is some sort of common problem or if I'm just missing some obvious command - I know I am a newbie at this - but I did a search of the forums and the internet in general and couldn't find this problem anywhere else. Thanks a lot in advance for any advice.
EDIT: Started clean. Realized I had accidentally chosen my first screen for the output rather than the second one last time, so I tried it again, windowed on the second screen this time. The output was successful but extremely small and I couldn't find a way to resize it. I tried going into the advanced output mode and suddenly it was back on the first screen, fullscreen, and again I couldn't get out of it. Somehow, not sure exactly which sequence of keypresses I used, I managed to minimize the fullscreen and get the advanced options window open, but it was still stuck (no interaction with the program possible) - no matter what I did, I couldn't get the output back to the second screen, and I couldn't close the fullscreen. Now it's stuck exactly how it was before. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks!
Now I get only a black screen - on the primary monitor, not the second one. I can't alt+tab out or alt+enter. Alt+f4 doesn't work either. If I Ctrl+Alt+Del, the black display (which is my fullscreen output) is minimized, but I can't interact with anything else. If I try to go back into Resolume to disable the output, I can't click on anything. I click once and the pointer disappears. I click again and it comes back. But I can't interact with anything or even close the program without shutting down the process from the task manager. I tried restarting Resolume but the fullscreen is open from the start, and the whole process begins again.
For now the only thing I can think of to do is reinstall the software and start from scratch (I'm downloading the installer now). But it's going to be a pain to have to set up all my options and libraries again, and I'd like to know what's causing this problem so I can avoid it in the future. Any ideas? Sorry if this is some sort of common problem or if I'm just missing some obvious command - I know I am a newbie at this - but I did a search of the forums and the internet in general and couldn't find this problem anywhere else. Thanks a lot in advance for any advice.
EDIT: Started clean. Realized I had accidentally chosen my first screen for the output rather than the second one last time, so I tried it again, windowed on the second screen this time. The output was successful but extremely small and I couldn't find a way to resize it. I tried going into the advanced output mode and suddenly it was back on the first screen, fullscreen, and again I couldn't get out of it. Somehow, not sure exactly which sequence of keypresses I used, I managed to minimize the fullscreen and get the advanced options window open, but it was still stuck (no interaction with the program possible) - no matter what I did, I couldn't get the output back to the second screen, and I couldn't close the fullscreen. Now it's stuck exactly how it was before. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks!