mr_MADAFAKA“It took 12 years of work to get here”: interview with Pierre-Loup Griffais, developer of SteamOS, the flagship OS of the Steam Deck
TachyonTeleI only play games in my living room. I can’t stand Big Picture mode. It’s awkward and has a lot of useless stuff in it. Just make the regular UI controller usable, Valve. That’s all you need to do. There’s no reason to have two different UIs.
Is this a new version of BP though?
Edit: looks like they have changed it a little. It’s definitely more useable. But there doesn’t seem to be a way to access the workshop. Why is everything so freaking big? Do they not know that TVs aren’t CRT anymore? They don’t need giant icons for everything anymore.
Edit2: Big picture doesn’t show nonsteam games. Not using it. Half my games are not from steam.
There’s a tab for non-steam games in Big Picture.
I didn’t see it. I’ll check it out some other time. All the other issues with it still remain though.
DPI scaling of the regular steam GUI can also be wonky if you have different monitors. For example, I mainly use steam on my lower DPI secondary monitor, but it wanted to scale based on my 4k main one. Could be fixed with an override though.
Valve completely redesigned Big Picture Mode for Steam Deck and SteamOS.
Non-Steam Games:
Steam Workshop:
Disclaimer: I have a theme mod installed which changes the color of some elements. Layout is the same though.
Interesting. Guess it’s not on desktop.
Not sure what’s not on Desktop for you. I’m on the Steam Desktop Beta and this all shows up on my Desktop Big Picture.
You answered your own question. You’re using a beta version.
Yeah, but they’re coming to Desktop stable soon. Or you can switch to Beta and try them out. It’s up to you. Just wanted to show that Valve is addressing the issues with Big Picture Mode.
I’m happy they are. I might actually use it. Thank you
HER0In case it is helpful: Big Picture Mode does show non-Steam games. Go to the library and there is a tab for them. They’ll also show in the recent games list on the home page.