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. RoomCaddie adjusts to fit your screen, from a laptop screen to a 4K projector.
• Nothing else. You don't need an account. You need the internet when you first enter your key. After that, RoomCaddie works offline. When it can connect, it checks your key again and looks for a newer version once a week and on the first start after an update.

What it runs

RoomCaddie runs any program on your PC that doesn't need administrator rights. If you can double-click it, it can be a tile. Tested so far:

• Golf. One tile starts your golf simulator and its launch monitor software in order. The setup wizard recognizes the golf programs and launch monitors listed under "Golf and the main program" in the guide.
• 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, controllers, Task Manager and Settings open as tiles like anything else.

The setup wizard recognizes these golf programs: GSPro, E6 Connect, The Golf Club 2019, Awesome Golf, Foresight FSX, Creative Golf 3D, ProTee Play, Trackman Performance Studio and Drills Golf Simulator. It also recognizes software for these launch monitors: SkyTrak, FS Golf (FlightScope Mevo), Uneekor, Square Golf, Square Omni, ProTee VX and VTrack.

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 Return shortcut 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 Return shortcut 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 Return shortcut works. That is the game's behavior, not RoomCaddie's.

Coming back on its own

Currently, only GSPro, Infinite Tees, Pureplay, Muni Golf and ShotForge bring RoomCaddie back when they close. This works only when the game is the tile's main program. The setup wizard makes GSPro the main program when it adds it. Infinite Tees becomes the main program when you add it with Scan this PC. When you add Pureplay with Scan this PC, it becomes the main program. When you add Muni Golf or ShotForge with Scan this PC, it becomes the main program. Everything else stays on screen until you press the Return shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+S.

Tap a running program's tile again to bring it to the front without starting it twice, if RoomCaddie monitors that program. This includes GSPro as the main program or GSPro started by its launcher. A Store app also comes to the front.

For other programs, the If it's already open setting on the program's card in the editor controls what happens. A Steam game, a website or a Windows tool always starts again.

What it does not do

• RoomCaddie does not stretch across several screens. It opens on the main display unless you choose another screen under RoomCaddie opens on in Settings > Screens. Each program you open from a tile can use its own screen (see the FAQ). To show your room's theme behind your programs on the screens you choose, turn on Theme on your other screens. Those screens can also show your room's name and logo when you turn on Room name and Room logo.
• RoomCaddie cannot start programs that need administrator rights because Windows won't allow it.
• 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.