Steam Big Picture Mode to start public beta today
Valve will be launching a public beta today of its Steam Big Picture mode, according to a New York Times report.
Everything is larger in Big Picture mode for easier viewing on a large screen
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Steam Big Picture Mode to start public beta today.
Valve will be launching a public beta today of its Steam Big Picture mode, according to a New York Times report.-
why not say according to valve themselves, who publicly said this?
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i dnt think you understand the reason ppl are eager to embrace this.
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This is awesome! The best of both worlds!
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YES! Though I think I will still use EventGhost as my shell, which will then launch Steam on boot:
http://www.eventghost.org
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Considering the X originally stood for Xbox, you better damn well be able to.
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I can't imagine I'll be playing on my TV in the future, but would love to definitely check this out and see the interface
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Thats exactly what this is for......its a nice UI for doing just that.
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I don't think you understand what BP mode is doing. It's a first-party modification to the existing Steam client to make it easier to use when hooked up to large screens at bigger distances than between a monitor and chair. It's the same client with functional changes to it.
You can switch back to standard mode when you sit in your milk crate.-
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yah it's just a new GUI design that supports Gamepads as an input... I dunno why you all are making this difficult.
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This is just means Steam will be easier to use on your HDTV when you are sitting far from the screen. You will be able to check a box in Steam and enable it. On your gaming pc.
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It's not a separate client. It's just a different interface for the current one that makes more sense for HDTV viewing distances, plus controller navigation built in if you want that.
Like how you can currently switch between detail / grid / list / small mode views, now there's also a "big picture" mode.
If you don't see the point of it then you don't have to use it.
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It's NOT just software:
(from the website)
"Big Picture System Requirements
OS Windows Vista, 7, or 8. OS X support coming soon.
Memory 1 GB RAM
Processor 3.0 Ghz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Video card Required / at least 256MB memory and DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b, Recommended / 512MB+ memory and DirectX 10-compatible
Disk space 1 GB recommended
Internet connection Broadband recommended
Controller Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows, Xbox 360 Wired Controller, or Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710 recommended. Keyboard and mouse also supported. "
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Well, they announced it more than a year ago and some people have been looking forward to it for that long.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/5063/-
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Did you read the article? It is right there.
" . . . where players will be able to click a button to have Steam reformatted for the big screen in their living room."
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This sounds good and I must set this up!
Question:
My gaming PC is not near my TV anymore and when it was I just plugged in the HDMI cord to each. However, what is the best wireless option to stream my PC video to TV now that they are far apart (20 ft at most)?
I see this on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815554007&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-NA-_-NA-
much cheaper and lower latency solution http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024006&p_id=2841&seq=1&format=2
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I use this, it works surprisingly well. My PC is upstairs and it still works great to the living room.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815290029
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Did not realize it was going to be so expansive, on screen keyboard, etc
http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles -
Potentially dumb question from a guy that doesn't know much: can I run a 30 foot HDMI cable from my computer to my TV for this, or do I have to worry about some sort of signal degradation (or some other evil that I'm not aware of)?
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That doesn't matter at all. Cable gauge matters at that distance, you'll want 22 or 24awg.
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I used Amazon but mono price is just as good, perhaps better pricing? I'd check both and go with the cheaper. I picked up this 50 footer and have had zero issues for over a year now. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKKAPE/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
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This was posted above by Turd Ferguson http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024006&p_id=2841&seq=1&format=2
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As long as its a Monster cable with gold or diamonds in it.
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Monster is an overpriced waste of money. There are far better cables out there.
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The issue will not be video degredation, it will be controller signal degredation and latency.
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I run a 50' HDMI and have no issues.
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Not only can you run a long HDMI cable, you can get a modern HDMI cable to carry 5.1 audio. I wrote a blog post about it after figuring all this stuff out last year when I set my gamintg computer up to my TV. No affiliate links, just the list of products I bought and use on a daily basis.
http://www.frogtoss.com/blog/2012/09/what-you-need-for-big-picture-mode/ -
where was that link to the cheap xbox controller receiver? I've got a wired controller right now plugged into a usb hub (long usb cable comes through the wall with the hdmi cable). Right now I'm tethered to one seat in the room while using the wired 360 controller. I mainly use a bluetooth keyboard & mouse but I'm looking at a few games that it would make sense to use e.g. Darksiders II
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Not sure if this was already linked in one of those other articles, but here's an ad for big picture mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrL6-OhN94
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yah that looks pretty awesome!
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FUCK YES
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Shut up
Seriously I'm not even going to defend Origin But this is just stupid. You aren't bitching cause there is walmart and target in the world it's just a competitor and if you don't like it fine but you make the whole gaming community sound like a bunch of whiny 3 year olds when you bring crap like this up.-
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No it's a decent client. Yeah it doesn't have everything that steam has but on it's own merit it's a pretty good client and way the well better that it could have been or anything that people would have expected from EA.
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It's an inconvenience for me. I don't care if it's functional. MySpace is functional, I still use Facebook because it's better. Origin is completely separated from my Steam account, which is where all of my friends and games are. Where I have actual social features like voice chat, commenting, recommendations, wishlists, etc. EA can't give me a single compelling reason to use their service over Steam. It exists solely so EA can make more money. Steam exists to make money, but does that by actually improving PC gaming. How has Origin improved anything? At the end of the day, it does nothing for consumers.
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Ehh....Use what you want. Boycott EA cause according to the internet they have been boycotted since the late 90's and are still around.
The main issue I have is when people act overtly stupid about stuff and post shit like "they added like a little grey line at the top of the UI. That was big" and having to drag something else that dare to compete with what they decided to devote their fanboyism.
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Umm, I use Origin whenever I play Battlefield. I will play games I'm interested in and deal with all kinds of bullshit. That's why I play PC games. Don't expect me to be happy when I have to use an inferior system though. If Origin were somehow better than Steam, I'd be the first person to embrace it. It's just vastly inferior and it pisses me off that almost no progress has been made, while Steam has made huge strides in the last twelve months.
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Here is the video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrL6-OhN94&feature=player_embedded
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So, this is not terribly different to just running an HDMI to your TV the way you can now?
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**FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TRY IT**
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To opt into the beta, go to the Steam menu and select settings. From this screen, you can click the change button under the Beta participation heading and select the "Steam Beta Update." Once you’ve committed your selection, Steam will prompt you to restart the application. Once it’s back up and running, you’ll find a BIG PICTURE button near the upper right-hand corner of Steam’s main window. Click this, or if you have a game controller up and running, press its center button to enter Big Picture mode.
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Hmm, this work for anyone?-
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ah ok, yea looks like they're still getting setup: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bigpicture
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I opted in but it doesn't seem that the Big Picture update has been pushed yet
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Can't use the D-pad, only the left stick works. I kinda don't like the arrangement of the library window. The initial "Recently Played" view is just a flat, horizontal list of games. It only shows 5 games at a time, leaving you to scroll left and right for the rest. If you move down to "View All Games" you get three rows for a total of 12 full titles and 3 titles which are half shown and half cut off by the edge of the screen. It's serviceable but you have to scroll around way more than you would using SC360 at native resolution. Good enough that I don't feel the need to continue developing SC360, and pretty good for a first release. Knowing Valve they will continue improving this as they receive feedback.
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How the fuck?? Mine doesn't have the big picture button!!
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What's really unfortunate is there doesn't seem to be a way to launch BPM using the controller. I hate to say it but this almost completely negates the purpose of BPM for me :/ You have to use the mouse to open Steam and then click "BIG PICTURE". This seemed really obvious to me when I wrote SC360
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Wouldn't be too hard to rig up a utility that would just bring up Steam when you press a controller button, even if Valve doesn't fix this. You'd end up pressing Back+Start to bring up Steam, and then Home to bring up Big Picture Mode. Not perfect, but infinitely better than reaching for the mouse. I might look into ripping my controller code out of SC360 to produce a utility like this.
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Well, I guess I won't need a new console for the next generation!
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http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/znljf/steams_big_picture_steam_on_tv/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrL6-OhN94
It's also on reddit. So far the discussion there seems to focus on what the steam browser is like compared to other browsers.-
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Well, to be fair, Artemis Research/Microsoft tried it's best with WebTV back in the late 1990's. I'm guessing it was using the equivalent of Internet Explorer version 3 on the TV set.
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cool
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You already have one...
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By doing this they don't need to make one.
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That has been my problem with playing games on my TV since forever
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Yeah but that's annoying and defeats the purpose of having a couch interface! I want to write a macro that launches BP mode AND sets it to "Projector Only" with one button.
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I use a combo of hippo remote and splashtop on iPad but nothing is elegant.
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I let out a 'Holy Shit' in a duke nukem voice when i loaded it for the first time.
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