
Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
Hey there!
I've had a persistent issue when switching monitor profiles, primarily via hotkey. With a couple of my profiles it seems like occasionally they get stuck in an off/on loop. I'll see the picture on the correct monitor for a few seconds then it'll flip back, then correct, then back over and over. This is either fixed by hammering on the hotkey until it seems to stay, or force quitting Display Fusion.
With another of my profiles, it works, but the picutre and audio stutters hard every 10 seconds until I manually change the profile/audio again.
Sorry to tack on a secondary issue, but I just updated to 24H2 and ever since then a couple of my custom functions have lost their hotkeys and I can't edit them. If I try to edit I get:
Error: The type initializer for 'ActiproSoftware.UI.WinForms.Controls.SyntaxEditor.Implementation.EditorSearchOptions' threw an exception.
The type initializer for 'ActiproSoftware.Internal.tjL' threw an exception.
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Cryptography.Csp, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The system cannot find the file specified.
[System.IO.FileNotFoundException]
[System.TypeInitializationException]
[System.TypeInitializationException]
We've made some changes in our latest beta to our monitor config code. Can you try it out and let me know if the issue persists? Here's the link: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/
Are you an administrator on your computer?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
I am the administrator. It looks like the latest beta is Beta 3, and I believe I was on Beta 2. I'll download 3 and give it a shot. It's a somewhat intermittent issue so I'll test it out.

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
I was able to reproduce the issue at 9:32 AM, switching to profile "Desktop 21:9". Here's the log.
I also noticed that when this issue occurs, the displayfusion app becomes slow to the point of being almost unresponsive, and the right-click menu on the taskbar gets bugged.
• Attachment [protected]: DisplayFusionDebugInfo.zip [263,724 bytes]

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
I did also notice tonight whenthe problem happened again, the hitching does seem to come from it trying to switch to the audio device over and over. I manually switched away from the defined audio device, and it kept auto-switching back every few seconds.
The DisplayFusion app and the taskbar menu are almost completely frozen during the issue. If I try to open any DisplayFusion window (the monitor config panel for example) it takes over 30 seconds to open, but once it opens the issue seems to resolve itself.
Jul 17, 2025 (modified Jul 17, 2025)
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It looks like the log starts at 9:42:40, I don't think it captured it. Could you try those steps again?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
Here's 2 more logs. One where the problem happened at 17:06, and the other I don't know exactly but around 19:15-19:20.
I've actually noticed that the debug.log seems to start right after the issue. I don't know if that means the issue is causing the log to refresh as well, but the DebugService.log goes back far enough if that's what you need.
• Attachment [protected]: DisplayFusionDebugInfo.zip [448,752 bytes]
• Attachment [protected]: DisplayFusionDebugInfo1.zip [262,094 bytes]

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
Oh, I thought I'd also mention that the other issue with the error message was resolved with the latest beta update:
" Error: The type initializer for 'ActiproSoftware.UI.WinForms.Controls.SyntaxEditor.Implementation.EditorSearchOptions' threw an exception."
This is now working.
Yeah strange the log is still starting too late, it should start as soon as you set the log level. Just to confirm you're setting the log to Level 1, and then reproducing the issue?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
Yep and I just tried a 3rd time. Every time the log starts right after the issue, so I think the issue is causing an app restart or log dump as well or something.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling today and that didn't help. I might try full uninstalling and removing all files and settings after that. Will my licence still work if I do that?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
This is still a huge problem. With my one monitor config the video works fine but the audio hangs every 10 seconds and DisplayFusion is basically completely frozen for a couple minutes, and in a couple of my other configs the video flips on and off every 10 seconds for a couple minutes until it sorts itself out. I tried full uninstalling DisplayFusion and reinstalling/configuring from scratch, and that didn't help.
I was able to sort of capture logs this time. I force-reproduced the issue while I had the log file open in windows so I was able to save it before it got purged this time. I've attached it and the issue was at about 15:57. This was one of the less severe occurrences of the issue, but hopefully that captured something.
This has become pretty much debilitating for my system so any help would be greatly appreciated, as unfortunately the next step would be uninstalling and trying to find something else that works.
• Attachment [protected]: DisplayFusion.log [5,161,777 bytes]
It looks like that log caught the change, but I don't see any errors, it shows it's switching the audio device fine. If you remove the audio device from your monitor profile so it's just swapping the monitors, and then change the audio device manually after, that works fine?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
That doesn't help. I'm pretty sure the audio is just a symptom of the problem that the app gets caught and hangs partway through the profile switch, because it becomes unresponsive and video hitches a little bit at the same time audio does.
Honestly, I've switched to running some batch files using the free tools SoundVolumeView and WS Display Settings and it works great. It just sucks because I paid for this software.
We're a bit stumped here with the log not showing any errors. Are you able to grab a video of your monitors while the issue is happening?

Brian Connor
10 discussion posts
I ended up narrowing it down to an HDMI splitter I have. If I'm switching from a profile with one of the monitors on the splitter to a profile without one of those monitors, everything glitches out pretty hard for about a minute.This issue isn't present on other software that does similar things so so I'm not exactly sure why it's happening. If I disconnect the splitter and attach the monitor (it's an AV receiver actually) directly the issue goes away. So for now I'm just living with either not using the splitter or dealing with the issue with the splitter attached.