[MC-150369] Fullscreen mode does not work properly if using multiple monitors [caused by faulty nVidia driver]

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This is caused by the nVidia 430.39 driver. Roll back the driver in order to fix the issue. If you need assistance with that, please contact 💬 Community Support.

For most Geforce cards, the older driver can be downloaded from https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/146343

Hello,

well my problem is when I launch my minecraft (launcher custom or not) it starts on my 2 screens, my main screen is "freeze", it is impossible for me to interact with minecraft on my second screen because when I click it puts me back on my desktop, I tried to move in windowed and to put it back in full screen but it doesn't work, this bug doesn't happen to me on the other programs.

Thank you for helping me out because it's extremely disturbing.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 17

MC-149392 Fullscreen with 2 monitors shows game in wrong monitor + freezes image on main monitor Resolved

MC-150126 Issues with fullscreen using two monitors Resolved

MC-151645 Minecraft Opening on Both Monitors, Only One Is Responsive Resolved

MC-151677 Cant use two monitors Resolved

MC-151680 When I open minecraft on it opens on two monitors Resolved

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Comments 14

Laser 2019-04-30T10:48:24Z

I fixed this bug, it is caused by the nvidia 430.39 driver, just install an older driver!

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-20T21:13:20Z

Installing an older driver is not a fix... Latest GeForce Game Ready Driver is 430.64 as of this writing, and this problem persists.

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-20T21:14:07Z

Issue persists with latest Driver: 430.64.

This issue is marked as closed; will it be addressed, or are we never able to update graphics drivers, ever again? o.O

violine1101 2019-05-21T11:35:50Z

Ask nVidia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guess if nVidia won't release a fix anytime soon, Mojang will have to hack a workaround into the game or something, if that's possible.

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-21T12:45:53Z

How is a single game not working the fault of an entire graphics company?

Minecraft is the only game affected by this. Do you have a bug number on the Nvidia side I can reference?

In the ten years of this games development, I've never seen such lack of ownership taken for it's intellectual property.

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violine1101 2019-05-21T13:24:53Z

The NVIDIA driver update broke fullscreen mode for pretty much every version of Minecraft. Before the driver update to 430.39, everything seems to work fine. That's all we know.

I don't know if someone has reported this bug to NVIDIA yet though. Feel free to report it to them if you haven't yet.

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-21T13:36:00Z

None of the other 200+ games in my Steam and associative other libraries have demonstrated this problem with the latest Nvidia drivers.

"differential diagnosis", aka the extent of troubleshooting possible by the end user, would deem this to be a Minecraft specific problem - not an Nvidia problem.

It would be good use of Microsoft's resources to investigate this issue and were it actually an Nvidia problem, work to resolve it with resilient code, rather than fingerpoint and shrug emoticon and walk away.

Once again, you've marked this bug as resolved when it isn't. This is very clearly a problem with Minecraft code.

Uriel Salischiker 2019-05-21T13:52:14Z

Its resolved as Invalid because its a problem caused by something external to Minecraft and can be solved by community tech support.

Nvidia has broken their drivers before causing a similar issue, and I suggest that you try opengl games to verify this isnt broken elsewhere

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-21T14:00:48Z

I don't believe anyone in community tech support can provide a solution to a Minecraft software bug, but it's imperative you acknowledge it as a bug instead of continuing to point to external sources. Furthermore, you've pointed to a bug without a reference to the bug number. How is that "support" ?

Minecraft is all that doesn't work; Nvidia drivers are working as intended across all other games. The fear here, is your developers won't address the issue if you don't let it through the gates. Have your developers told you it's an Nvidia problem? Ask them again and provide this Jira Issue number. Notch would have never left this as the problem of the user, which your team is clearly doing.

How do we cut through the opinions of what constitutes a bug and focus on the fact that for hundreds of thousands of users who keep their systems up to date, your software is currently unplayable and you don't seem to be addressing it?

Uriel Salischiker 2019-05-21T17:37:00Z

Minecraft is not the only game affected https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/bmnsx8/driver_43064_faqdiscussion/

Battlefield 5 and Rage 2 are too, between others. Nvidia is probably aware of the issue and should release a fix soon, as has happened before

The previous ticket when they broke it in 2017 was MC-112780, note that is resolved the same way

We point to community support as they have the tools to help users downgrade their driver until Nvidia releases a hotfix

Jenksy Jexen 2019-05-21T18:58:29Z

Minecraft is the only application demonstrating the behaviour of launching on two monitors.
Minecraft isn't listed in any of the comments in the Reddit post you've linked.
Battlefield 5 and Rage 2 are not problematic with the latest drivers, Tested.
"Nvidia is probably aware of the issue." Suggests you haven't actually checked, and that you're guessing on someone working on it. The growing concern is no one at Mojang has looked into this issue to verify whether it's actually a problem with how you're rendering your game, or not... "Let's wait and see if it fixed itself" is the utmost of reactive responses... Should we try turning it off and on again, too?
The previous ticket, MC-112780 has nothing to do with the behaviour of this issue, and I don't see how it's a relevant reference.

Java Minecraft certainly remains unplayable for thousands of children who have no idea how to submit Jira bug reports, and the ones who have are seemingly shut down by Mods doing everything they can to provide reasons for why this isn't being investigated.

slow clap

Uriel Salischiker 2019-05-21T20:36:59Z

I know that you feel we are just trying to shut down the issue, but there is nothing Mojang did to cause it, and the fix has to come from Nvidia as they are the ones that broke it on their game ready driver for Rage 2.
The crashes and issues are random(only half of the team can recreate it, myself not included), varied(there are atleast 4 more issues related to this driver), and affecting multiple games(I can recreate in Battlefield 5 for example, not everyone can the same as this cannot be recreated by everyone)

For example, some people are seeing a "pixelated" view of the menu(where options, singleplayer and multiplayer are), others are outright crashing, others are having your issue and im probably not remembering more of them

For now the only thing we can tell the community is to downgrade and wait for the fix by Nvidia, we know it sucks but this has happened before(causing other problems, thats the ticket I linked) and their response was fast

We appreciate everyone reporting this issues and you are welcome to report new ones, this one unfortunately its caused by something external to Minecraft so its marked by Invalid. That doesn't mean we don't think its a real issue(As we are dealing with a lot of those in IRC), just that there is nothing we can do from Minecraft to fix it

I hoped that answers your questions, if it doesn't I would ask you to create a thread in reddit.com/r/mojira as to avoid having more discussions in this ticket(as Mojira is not meant to be a place for discussions, with that subreddit filling that role)

EDIT:

I would like to add that Minecraft uses LWJGL, which is just a wrapper to OpenGL. OpenGL commands are translated by the driver(that nvidia provides) to be executed. If a driver update breaks that translation someway, then you will have this kind of weird issues.

The latest driver is a Game Ready driver, which usually are changes on the way that this instructions are translated to try to optimize it for a specific game, so its highly likely that one of those optimizations is having side effects which causes this issues here.

Thats why we say its a issue with the Nvidia driver, which Nvidia has to release a hotfix for

Zak Beswick 2019-08-01T18:31:18Z

3 months on and this problem still persists for me, any updates?

Declan Hartung 2019-08-12T02:57:46Z

FIX: This is by far the best alternative I can find apart from actually fixing it, but I actually found this because of a different glitch where if I was fullscreen my game would lag and if I wasn't fullscreen obviously it would suck so in my search for an alternative I found this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuyPuOLviNo (Not my video). It runs minecraft perfectly borderless and has worked perfectly for me for years. May be a bit annoying that you have to do it every time at launch but this 100% works for me, and you can definitely get used to it.