I actually love BPM, but the button to enter is right next to the steamvr button so I usually pull a “this little maneuver is gonna cost us a minute” whenever I misclick and it’s often when I’m late for a VR social event.
On the windows xbox controller, the huge raised button in the middle turns on big picture mode. I’m not aware of any way to disable that button. It’s a huge pain in the ass if you accidentally touch it and get yanked out of whatever you were doing.
Seems like it is a little more convoluted than I recalled. I thought you just turned off focus steam, but if you go to controller, test inputs, and then reconfigure the inputs from there, you can just skip the guide button setup so that it doesn’t do anything when pressed.
I love this latest feature of steam where if I press the xbox button in a game (windows store game, not even steam) instead of opening the game bar, steam pops up and goes “hey did you want to open big picture?” Like no mother fucker, I’ve told you 30 times now, stop it.
It’s about a decade old but it’s the couch version of Steam, completely navigable with a controller. If you’ve ever seen a Steam Deck, that’s just Big Picture Mode.
I believe Steam Deck got a completely new interface that also later replaced the old Big Picture mode. It also of course has a more complex setup, since it’s not running in a desktop environment, but that’s more about the overlay and running games.
It is news to me that people feel this strongly about steam big picture mode.
I actually love BPM, but the button to enter is right next to the steamvr button so I usually pull a “this little maneuver is gonna cost us a minute” whenever I misclick and it’s often when I’m late for a VR social event.
On the windows xbox controller, the huge raised button in the middle turns on big picture mode. I’m not aware of any way to disable that button. It’s a huge pain in the ass if you accidentally touch it and get yanked out of whatever you were doing.
You can absolutely turn that off in steam settings.
Where did they add the option? It certainly wasn’t there last time I tried to figure it out, though that was admittedly a long time ago.
Seems like it is a little more convoluted than I recalled. I thought you just turned off focus steam, but if you go to controller, test inputs, and then reconfigure the inputs from there, you can just skip the guide button setup so that it doesn’t do anything when pressed.
Worked like a charm! Thanks!
I love this latest feature of steam where if I press the xbox button in a game (windows store game, not even steam) instead of opening the game bar, steam pops up and goes “hey did you want to open big picture?” Like no mother fucker, I’ve told you 30 times now, stop it.
You could have changed your mind though. Are you sure you didn’t change your mind?
I have never even heard of steam big picture mode.
It’s about a decade old but it’s the couch version of Steam, completely navigable with a controller. If you’ve ever seen a Steam Deck, that’s just Big Picture Mode.
I believe Steam Deck got a completely new interface that also later replaced the old Big Picture mode. It also of course has a more complex setup, since it’s not running in a desktop environment, but that’s more about the overlay and running games.