• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    I 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.

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        I didn’t see it. I’ll check it out some other time. All the other issues with it still remain though.

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      Valve completely redesigned Big Picture Mode for Steam Deck and SteamOS. They’ve been porting those changes over to Desktop Steam and even changing Desktop Steam’s UI slowly to match and make everything more consistant.

      Non-Steam Games:

      Steam Workshop:

      Disclaimer: I have a theme mod installed which changes the color of some elements. Layout is the same though.

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          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.

          PS: These screenshots were made on a Windows PC which is why the Compatibility tab isn’t in the Game settings.

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              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.

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      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.