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!
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 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!
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).
* You will need to do this for each different display configuration you want to use in any of your games or applications.
* Click 'Back' button to go back to the Main HelioPlus window.
2. Now that you have some Display Profiles set up, you can create some shortcuts that will use them! Click on the 'Setup Game Shortcuts' button.
3. You will be shown your Shortcut Library window. This is where all your Shortcuts live, and where you have to go if you every want to edit them.
4. Click the 'New' button to create a new Shortcut
* Choose the Display Profile you want to use with the Shortcut. Make sure it matches what the game expects :).
* Click on the 'Choose what Game you start' tab, to choose the main game or application that the Shortcut will start.
* 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. You can also choose to not start anything if you want to permanently change to a different display profile.
* Click on the 'Chose what happens afterwards' tab, and choose if you want to rollback any display changes you make while starting the game, or if you want to keep them.
* If the 'auto-suggest name' option is enabled then you should have a Shortcut Name already entered in automatically.
* 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!
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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:
