PC with TV as another Screen

[Thisonepotato]

My PC / desk is in the living room and I wandered if with a second HDMI from the PC I could on occasion use the TV as a screen for gaming.

I have a 5700XT graphics card which goes to the monitor via HDMI. IS it just a case of another HDMI from the card to the TV and the TV will mirror the monitor. Is there a better way, ideally if I could some how, on occasion just have the TV as the screen that would be good. I love playing CSGO on the monitor but just started Halo Infinite and that would probably be better on my 65inch TV.

TV is hooked up to a Sonos 5.0 system how would I configure this for the PC or would it just work.

[hersh]

Forgive me if I misunderstood ....
You don't have to mirror the TV to your existing monitor, have it as a second screen (on the left or right)
Connect up the TV and it should auto appear as another screen
Right click desktop and go to display options, set position and resolution, mirror/extend etc
Run the app/game on the second screen (tv)
Not in front of a pc at mo so some fiddling may be required for whatever version of Windows you may have
Sound should auto follow on the hdmi cable

Will re-read tomorrow when sober!

Edited by hersh on Saturday 18th December 21:08

[anonymous-user]

i have my pc setup like this with an older tv as the second screen, you just need the connect it to the gfx cards 2nd output with an hdmi or vga cable dep upon what connectors they have, iirc i am using an hdmi to vga cable.

there are then options in the windows display settings section to set if the 2nd screen extends the desktop or mirrors the 1st screen etc...

[dapprman]

I'm another one who's done this in the past for playing media at home (before getting a NAS with a HDMI socket and desktop media software) and have since done this with a laptop at my parents so we can watch a football game using my Amazon Prime membership.