DisplayMagician is an open source tool for automatically configuring your displays and sound for a game or application from a single Windows Shortcut. DisplayMagician is designed to change your display profile, change audio devices, start extra programs and then run the game or application you want. It will even reset things back to the way they were for you once you've closed the game or application!
The latest version of this application is available for download via the [release](https://github.com/terrymacdonald/DisplayMagician/releases/latest) page.
Different games require your displays configured in different ways. If you're a simracer like me, you also require a lot of additional 'helper' applications the give you the additional functionality to game the way you want. Making all those changes each time I wanted to play each game REALLY started annoying me, and I thought there must be a better way.
There is now. DisplayMagician allows you to configure multiple different display profiles, and then use those different display profiles to create Game Shortcuts. These Game Shortcuts allow you to have your game or application start exactly the way you like it.
Do you like running Dirt Rally 2.0 on a single NVidia Surround window across triple screens, and yet you like to run Project Cars 2 across four individual screens (a triple and one above)? Do you like running SimHub when you play iRacing, yet you want to start Twitch when you play Call of Duty? Well with DisplayMagician you can do all that with a single Desktop Shortcut (you can even start games with a Hotkey)!
DisplayMagician also allows you to automatically change to a different audio device just for one game, and will revert that change when you close the game. Great if you have some special audio devices you use only for certain games. No more fiddling with audio settings - just play the game!
I am doing this work to scratch a programming itch I've had for a while. It's pretty fun to take something carefully crafted by another developer and extend it with a lot of other awesome features. That said, I'd appreciate a donation to help buy a coffee or two! If you're so inclined, you can [sponsor me on GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/terrymacdonald).
* Click on the '3. Choose what happens before' tab, to choose any other programs you want to start before you start the main Game or Application. You can choose if you want to shut them down afterwards too! Click on the 'Find Examples' button if you'd like to see some example helper software and their settings for popular games.
* Click on the '4. Choose Game to start' tab, to choose the main game or application that the Game Shortcut will start and monitor.
* Choose the Game from the list shown (be sure to click the > button), or if it's not listed there then select the game or application executable.
* Click on the '5. Chose what happens afterwards' tab, and choose if you want to rollback any changes made by the Game Shortcut when it runs, or if you want to keep them.
* Click the 'Save' button to save the Shortcut to the Shortcut Library. If you can only see the outline of a button, then you have some missing fields you need to fill in. The Save button only shows if you have a valid Shortcut set up.
5. Once you've saved the Short cut, you should see it in the Shortcut Library.
6. To create a Desktop shortcut file from your Shortcut, select it in the list in your Shortcut Library, and click the 'Save to Desktop' button. This will then write the Shortcut to your computer, ready to use!
* You can double-click on the Desktop shortcut you just saved to the Desktop to start your game; or
* You can right mouse click on the desktop background, and select the Game Shortcut from the DisplayMagician pop-up menu to start your game; or
* You can right mouse click on the DisplayMagician notification tray icon, and select the Game Shortcut from the DisplayMagician pop-up menu to start your game; or
* (optionally) If you've set a Hotkey for your Game Shortcut, you can press the Hotkey keyboard shortcut whenever DisplayMagician is running and your Game Shortcut will run.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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## Credits
Thanks for the work and the time that all of our contributors put into making this a better project. Following is a short list, containing the name of some of these people:
* Original HelioDisplayManagement project created by the amazing Soroush Falahati
