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Chronographs, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

Steam big picture mode enjoyer here, I generally just use it on my steam deck though. I get the vr misclick thing as I never use VR but I’ve never accidentally opened it

iAmTheTot,

Why would you need to use big picture mode on your steam deck when its entire gaming UI is designed for it?

Chronographs,

I mean the gaming UI is big picture mode, essentially, that’s what I’m referring to

iAmTheTot,

Ah, I did not think those two things were the same. Doesn’t the Steamdeck UI have different features than big picture mode?

Ulrich,
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No, it’s exactly the same.

iAmTheTot,

Big picture mode can do the power control and gpu throttling and stuff? That’s dope. I gotta check that out when I get home.

Ulrich, (edited )
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No, but that is also not a function of Big Picture Mode exclusively, that’s a function of Gamescope, Steam, and Linux as well.

iAmTheTot,

I run Linux at home lately. I guess I’m just confused now because they don’t sound the same anymore. But it’s not that important. Have a good day!

Ulrich,
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If you run Linux and Gamescope then yes, you can do that, although it’s probably not super useful to throttle a desktop processor.

iAmTheTot,

Less power is less power! I undervolted my 9070XT to use significantly less power, but only lose around 2% performance. I guess I’ll have to look into Big Picture Mode, haven’t used it in years. I had been waiting for SteamOS for desktop to use those kinds of features seamlessly as on the steamdeck. Awesome!

Ulrich,
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You won’t be able to undervolt your GPU from Big Picture Mode. You can’t do that on Steam Deck either, you can only lower the TDP of the APU.

iAmTheTot,

I didn’t say that I would do that from Big Picture Mode, I was saying I already do that. I have a steam deck and am familiar with its capabilities, thanks!

grue, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

Desktop mode is good.

Big Picture Mode is good.

Why it’s so easy to accidentally switch between the two makes no fucking sense.

ech, (edited )

Why it’s easy is because the window control buttons are slightly different on steam then on every other window on the PC, putting the big picture mode button right behind where the minimize button usually is. Why Valve did this? No fucking clue.

Melonpoly, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

Big picture mode is great, how easy it is to start it up accidentally isn’t

gofsckyourself, do games w Dune game

Dune game

Pajooonk, do zapytajszmer w Czemu na szmerze linkowany jest klub jagielloński? To przypadkiem nie prawacka organizacja?
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Normalizowanie tego typu gówno źródeł i wstawienie ich na stronie obok źródeł które się do czegoś nadają, jest formą zatruwania źródła informacji jakim jest szmer.

Tworzenie bańki to jedno, ale mieszanie jakichś chujowych treści z wiarygodnymi to dużo większy problem.

Co dalej, wrzucanie obok siebie jakichś reportaży i filmów na temat fundacji i akcji prospołecznych, a obok tego jakiś news o tym jak to brauniści i putin to propozycja nowoczesnego konserwatyzmu?

lemat_87,
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Ostatnio widziałem, jak próbowali wybielać Nawrockiego i ogólnie to czułem się, jakbym czytał jakąś pisowską gadzinówkę

Zahille7, (edited ) do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

My thing is I wish there was an easy way to get out of BPM. The few times I’ve accidentally switched to it, it takes me at least twice as long to find out where the button to switch back is

Edit: whenever I go to the power button on the sidebar in BPM, it never gives me an option to exit, just to turn off my PC completely.

the_riviera_kid, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

BOO!!!

Big picture mode is amazing, I have my living room PC boot straight to big picture mode.

saphiron, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

I love big picture mode for my use case - my living room PC boots it automatically for couch gaming with a controller. That being said, the button to launch it from the steam desktop client is very poorly positioned and I also understand the complaints about the Xbox button causing it to launch.

LostWanderer, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

I’ve gotten better about not accidentally activating Big Picture mode, but I agree it’s all too easy to do it carelessly!

pleasestopasking, do gaming w What are your favorite metroidvanias?

A lot of good recommendations in here, some I’ve played, some I’m adding to my list!

I’ll share one that I haven’t seen in the thread yet: Crypt Custodian. You play as a ghost cat sentenced to clean garbage in the afterlife. Good mix of exploration and combat. I personally hate when combat keeps me from progressing in a story, so I like that they have Easy/Normal/Hard modes but that you can also further customize assists, like adding up to 3 extra hit points. You can also buy a market to show you the next place to go when you’re feeling stuck. Very good cozy-gamer territory.

The story wasn’t overly complex, but very sweet–the ending made me cry. I loved elements of the story like one of the bosses being the personification of grief.

I played it on XBox Game Pass, but it was worth paying for.

404, (edited ) do gaming w What are your favorite metroidvanias?

Animal Well.

No combat, big emphasis on (hard) puzzles and exploration. Great atmosphere. Played it on my Steam Deck.

pleasestopasking,

A lot of recs for this one, it might have to be my next!

lukecooperatus, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance
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I do this so much by accident in desktop mode on the Steamdeck with a Steam controller. I dunno why big picture mode is apparently bound to pressing the Steam button on the controller (not every time, just sometimes!), but why is it even bound to anything when I’ve just switched intentionally to desktop mode? Why would I switch away from gaming mode just to enable big picture? What’s the use case that they’re catering to here by making it so easy to accidentally be in this situation?

Anyhow, pretty amazing that this minor annoyance is almost the only thing to complain about with my Steamdeck experience. Best gaming console I’ve ever had.

Justdaveisfine, do games w Dune game

This is a funky opinion, but I’m holding off on it because of how they handled Conan Exiles.

Zahille7,

what do you mean? I have Exiles but I haven’t played in a couple years, since before Siptah came out (but I did buy that expansion).

Justdaveisfine,

They kept rebalancing to chase the hardcore PvPers wants who ended up leaving anyways, started getting pushy with their microtransactions/battle pass (that were added in an update), and they added their Funcom launcher in an update.

Above all of that is there are still some ugly persistent bugs that have been huge problems for years now, many involving thralls which are pretty much required for late game content.

I won’t say Funcom did the worst job or anything that far, but they definitely put me in a ‘wait and see’ state for at least the first few major patches, as that will show what direction they want to take the game and who they’re focusing on for feedback.

virku, do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

What is big picture mode?

Vince,

Makes steam full screen and fully usable with just a controller

virku,

Thanks!

TriflingToad, (edited ) do gaming w Fuckin nuisance

for REAL. all my homies hate steam big picture

edit: I mean on PC when you’re not using a controller, it definitely has a use.
though tbh I don’t think the UI design is that great tbh. The switches homepage is better imo

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