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Steam's Big Picture Mode beta starts Monday Sep 10th [out now]
- Thread starter LiK
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yup, HDMI does audio too so no issues there. and no issues with 360 gamepad even if you're using wireless receiver.
Ditto. It's surprisingly easy to navigate to almost anything I'd want. The only issues I've had so far is:
1) Videos not playing in the store page.
2) the "Search" function isn't working. I can bring up and type characters into the search box, but any attempt to confirm and actually search Doesn't work. Pressing "A" simply closes text entry (but if I move the left stick around I can hear the selecting sounds, meaning it's still up somewhere) and pressing the start button on my Xbox controller just brings up a settings pane for some reason. Anyone figured this out yet?
Edit: Also, I forgot to mention the text input method is fucking genius. How this has never been used outside of homebrew apps (props to Durante!) is astonishing.
Gave it a shot once I realized it could be used on the monitor as well (derp). I like it but not being able to navigate stuff with the d-pad is a huge negative to me. I don't like scrolling menus with the stick, that goes for games as well.
I also think if they're going to go through all this work to redesign the Steam interface to work as a "console" like one, then they have to have everything work on there. It seemed like everything I clicked on in detail took me to a web page in the old traditional Steam format. At least come up with some kind of achievement interface for it.
Just some constructive criticism. I liked what was there for the most part but since I can't really connect this to my TV I probably won't use it too much.
I also think if they're going to go through all this work to redesign the Steam interface to work as a "console" like one, then they have to have everything work on there. It seemed like everything I clicked on in detail took me to a web page in the old traditional Steam format. At least come up with some kind of achievement interface for it.
Just some constructive criticism. I liked what was there for the most part but since I can't really connect this to my TV I probably won't use it too much.
EternalGamer
Banned
You can configure it for that. Also Achivements do show up in a formatted list on the community page.
When I click community I only get my friends list. When I click achievements for a game in my library it loads the web browser and loads the achievements in the old format.
Ah thanks. Kind of sucks we have to do that but I'm sure it'll get fixed. It's a simple oversight.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
This is actually pretty cool. Very responsive and smooth. Not frame rate issues with any games. I need to fix the dpad thing but I seen someone posted a fix for that. So good.
Syphon Filter
Member
I am not planning to use this mode but i was wondering if that silver gamepad on the site is any good?
EternalGamer
Banned
Sorry, I meant on the game page. To the left of "play now" when you select a game.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Is there a way to turn off the stupid background music? Was testing out youtube and I could hear it behind my video. x:
funkystudent
Member
Tried to play skyrim through BPM but you still need a mouse to click PLAY when that launch menu skyrim has pops up.
Hope Bethesda patches it out.
Hope Bethesda patches it out.
Marty Chinn
Member
Actually ignoring the code, it's only 100 billion, not a trillion numbers to try. Visa always starts with a 4.
EternalGamer
Banned
There is already a mod for it in the workshop.
Yeah that's what I meant. For Sleeping Dogs it shows the last achievement I got and if I hit A it'll bring up the old web page.
Marty Chinn
Member
Linking XBMC into Steam and then launching it in BPM has a weird issue. If you hit the guide button to bring up the overlay, it doesn't go away when you close it.
jediyoshi
Member
You can rename the folder named ambient in \Steam\tenfoot\resource\sounds\
MrGreencastle
Member
I'm still getting a crash about 30 seconds into launching BRM. Windows 8 RTM. Compatibility mode doesn't solve. Any ideas?
EternalGamer
Banned
Oh, mine shows a scrollable list but that may be only most recent. No reason they can't just ut the other ones there, though. They should.
You can fix that but it's a pain and requires registry editing. I don't remember exactly, but I ran regedit and searched for Steam.exe, I think, until I found a key that had Steam.exe in a list of programs to run in compatibility mode. DO NOT mess with this unless you're comfortable with the registry and sure you won't break something, though. And make a backup of the registry first with the regedit tool.
I think this is a nice idea, but it really just gets in the way for me. Lots of game launchers require mouse clicks to play, the interface itself interferes with GFWL games, the latest update crashed my dpad settings.. I think I'll probably just stick with the regular interface.
It is not possible at the moment. I suggest making a comment in the Steam forum, unless there's a better way to report bugs/problems.Anyone figured out any way to get x360ce working with BigPicture mode? My controller needs it to work and I can't seem to figure it outguess it's time to buy an actual 360 pad...
CosmicQueso
Member
Dude. It's day 1 of the BETA. I mean, yeah there are some things to improve, but i'm guessing there will be plenty of adjustments over the coming days weeks and years. Sheesh. Looking at the interface and what they've done, you can't see the potential? This could really revolutionize the home console business and be as big a disruption to the console space as iOS has been in the handheld one.
Bornstellar
Member
Not a fan - interface looks cheap and it consistently crashes.
Just googled it. Found the registry fix and it worked perfectly.
That would be 100 billion then, not million.
It's instantly better-looking and more functional* than any of the major consoles so I guess I disagree.
*once they get around to supporting non-xinput/PS3 pads
Marty Chinn
Member
Ooops, typo, was thinking billion in my head but somehow typed a million =)
Cannon Goose
Member
Quotin' myself from the previous page. Anyone figured this out?
out0v0rder
Member
steam big picture comes out and i find like 5 pages of discussing who invented the on screen keyboard what the heck
jediyoshi
Member
The screenshots aren't dumped in easy to find directories, but you can manage them in My Profile -> My Screenshots -> Upload screenshots, which pulls up the Screenshot Manager. From there there's an option to display the location of the screenshot on your drive
edit: Click for direct link to screenshot manager
steam://open/screenshots
Each game is in it's own folder with a number (which is it's steam app number), should be something similar to this:
\Steam\userdata\*number*\*number*\remote\*game app number*\screenshots
Easiest way to access them is to open the screenshots manager (outside of BPM) and press "Check on Hard drive" (something like that), that will open the folder with the screenshots of that particular game.
Marty Chinn
Member
Just in case anyone is interested, BPM works with IR remotes.
funkystudent
Member
Anyone got a like for this?