u/greatlysoon

Just upgraded to a dual monitor setup and I want one screen to be my game and the other to be everything stream related. Chat, meld, alerts, music, Discord, the works. The problem is every time I add a second display it either gets captured by my display capture or my preview window starts mirroring across both screens.

What's the cleanest way to set up a second monitor as a stream control surface that no one sees on stream? Do you use window capture for your game so the second screen is invisible by default? Some kind of virtual desktop trick? Stream Deck plus a tablet running chat?

What does your second monitor look like during a stream?

So I finally sat down to try meld’s new tool spark for the first time and I'm already stuck which feels about right for me lol

I asked for a chat overlay with a 50% transparent background and smooth scroll animations and Spark seemed like it was doing something. It said it showed a preview, but when I went to my canvas I couldn't see it anywhere. checked my scenes checked my layers and nothing.

I'm not sure if:

• It added it to a different scene than the one I was on
• I need to manually drag it somewhere
• It's there but invisible because of a layer order issue
• Something just didn't generate properly

I'm on windows11 & the latest version of meld I’m pretty sure. Haven't changed any settings. Spark seemed to complete the build since it didn't throw an error or anything,but it didn't show up.

Has anyone run into this? What's the fix? Appreciate any help, I really want to get this working before stream tomorrow!!