Hoster Show Nightmare - A 3rd video card was used and dialogs moved to it

[Joe Nieves]

I had a terrible experience with Hoster on Thursday night Karaoke show, the singer and database search menu screens where not visible on my laptop or extended monitor screens and couldn't do any finds of singers or song search all night, I had to totally rely on my books even the regulars had to get the numbers in order to call up their songs it was a nightmare.

Earlier that day I had the singers and search screen opened up on a third monitor that I use coming from a USB Video card (Star TechU SB2VGAE2) there was no issues other than in some songs the lyrics rendered properly, but the previous screen didn't clear, so you had a scrambled lyrics screen, only on some songs (Not All), but I've already experience this issue before posting a request for a fix to this problem.

I then shut down after I finished then went to do my gig later that night, I completely shut down and disabled the drivers for that USB video card and other devices which are not needed from the device manager like I normally due and started my show.

When I clicked on the search button I can see the icon at the taskbar but the search screen menu did not appear I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked.

I finally figured out after much frustration all while doing the show, that the Hoster program was sending the singers and search menu to the Third monitor that I had used earlier that day, but the problem is that the third monitor wasn't connected and the drivers had been disabled, Why would Hoster try to render a menu to a screen monitor that doesn't exist?

The next day I enabled the USB video drivers, hooked up the video card and monitor, started Hoster program and clicked for a search and the menu rendered at the third monitor, I then dragged the menu back to the laptop screen, closed Hoster and reopened and all was well after that.

But this shouldn't have happened, Hoster Menu should have rendered back to the laptop screen not to a non existing monitor and disabled drivers...

Thanks
Joe…