Being a Gamer 2.0

Play Steam Games on Your Secondary Monitor

Playing Steam games on secondary monitors

Daniele Quero, PhD
Geek Culture
Published in
3 min readSep 27, 2022

--

How to play Steam games on secondary monitors while keeping the primary one free for other stuff ?

I finally found out how to do this very useful trick, so I’m here to share.

The thing is:

do you ever use more than one monitor?

do you ever struggle to play a game on a specific monitor?

Here is a simple solution to your problem! The following few steps will lead you to a whole new way of playing Steam games on your Master Race multiple-monitor PC.

  1. Open Steam in Big Picture mode

2. Go to the options (gear icon) and select Resolution, under Screen options

3. From the second dropdown menu, you can choose which monitor is going to receive the Big Picture

--

--

Daniele Quero, PhD
Geek Culture

A professional developer with passion for game developing and skill-growing. A former Nuclear Physics Researcher who changed his life to pursue his dreams