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Can't keep the new screen resolution after my flow changes it.

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Hey. I'm pretty new to automation and I'm having some difficulties achieving the desired flow.

The flow is a very simple resolution/refresh rate change that also changes the projection method. My laptop is connected to my 27'' 4k Monitor and I run games with "Integer Scaling" which requires the display resolution to be 1080p. I was tired of changing it myself so I made a flow like so:

Pseudo-code:

if external monitor is currently on 4k:

change projection mode to external monitor only

change external monitor resolution to 1920x1080 144hz

end

else

change projection mode to extend laptop and the monitor displays

set external monitor to 4k again

end

This works just like how I want it to, but after some time (I didn't measure it properly) the monitor goes back to being 4k for some reason. So I'm seeing blurry graphics in the middle of my game which is very annoying. Can anyone help me resolve this? Basically my goal is to make it so it doesn't change the resolution until I've run the flow again. Thanks.

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Do you run this flow on a keyboard shortcut? Perhaps you've pressed it again mid-way through your game and the flow runs again? It seems like your flow is designed to change it back, too. Maybe try a less common keyboard shortcut for your flow, so it doesn't get triggered accidentally.

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Thank you for the reply. I was using it with a keyboard shortcut that is very unlikely to be used accidentally. But I found the issue. When I run games they're usually started on fullscreen mode, which changes my desktop resolution to its maximum for some reason that I don't understand. The fix was to download a software called "Borderless Gaming" which makes it so the games you add start automatically on windowed borderless setting. Integer scaling works perfectly fine now, and the flow does what it's supposed to do.