Supported setups

What you need

• Windows 11. Windows 10 and earlier are not supported.
• A screen RoomCaddie can fill: a projector, a TV or a monitor. It runs at 4K on a projector and on an ordinary laptop screen.
• Nothing else. No account. The internet when you first enter your key; after that RoomCaddie works offline, and once a week and the first time it starts after an update, when it can, it checks the key again and looks for a newer version.

What it runs

Any program on your PC. If you can double-click it, it can be a tile. Tested so far:

• Golf. A golf simulator and the launch monitor software that starts it, as one tile that starts both in order.
• Apps from the Microsoft Store. The setup wizard finds every Store app on the PC; the streaming apps it knows by name get their proper names and artwork.
• Websites. A site opens full screen in RoomCaddie's own browser window, with its own sign-ins, separate from your everyday browser.
• Games. Launched through their own launcher; see the note below.
• Windows tools. Volume, display, sound devices, Task Manager and Settings open as tiles like anything else.

Where a launched program lands: on the screen picked for it under Which screen in the tile editor, maximized; a step with no screen picked opens on the main display. A program left half-size or on the wrong screen is put back. Games and programs that run their own full-screen window are left alone.

The one catch: games

A game that runs in a windowed or borderless mode lets the hotkey through: press it and RoomCaddie comes back with the game still running behind it. A game that takes the screen in exclusive full-screen mode keeps the whole keyboard while it runs, so the hotkey does nothing until you leave the game through its own menu. Most games offer a borderless mode in their own settings; pick it and the hotkey works. That is the game's behaviour, not RoomCaddie's.

Coming back on its own

Today only GSPro brings RoomCaddie back when it closes, on a tile where GSPro is the main program (the setup wizard sets that up when it adds GSPro). Everything else stays on screen until you press the hotkey. A second tap on a tile brings the running program forward instead of opening it twice in two cases: GSPro as the main program, and apps from the Microsoft Store. Other tiles start their program again.

What it does not do

• RoomCaddie itself fills one screen, the main display; it does not span several. The programs it opens can each have a screen of their own (see the FAQ).
• Not Windows 10 or earlier, not macOS, not Linux.
• Nothing inside the programs and sites it opens: their sign-ins, streaming rights and copy protection are theirs.