Steam – How to enable Big Picture Mode

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Steam officially released Big Picture Mode today, for navigating Steam with a controller. They claim it can be used from the computer, without the need to hook up to a TV.

But, how do I do it? I've looked over all the menus and settings, and don't see anything for Big Picture Mode anywhere!

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Do'h! Looks like I just needed to restart Steam (even though I had already gotten the update...)

Then the "Big Picture Mode" button is hard to miss - it's in the upper-right of the Steam UI.

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Steam – What controllers are supported through Big Picture Mode

Officially, Steam Support states support for the following.

Currently, Big Picture supports the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows, the Xbox 360 Wired Controller, and the Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710.

In addition, you can infer support for a variety of third party gamepads that offer similar button layouts and drivers - for instance, any third party Xbox compatible gamepads should work just fine.

With the use of third party drivers like MotioninJoy, a variety of other options are usable as well, though unsupported.

Steam – How to make Steam launch in Big Picture mode

It should suffice to launch Steam with the -bigpicture switch.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe -bigpicture

Windows 8 boots to Metro, of course, so you may want to either use one of the Windows 8 "backwards compatibility tools" like Start8, or to run a very little script in AHK at boot time:

Send #D

...or you can use Windows 7 instead (Windows 8 SP1 might also let you skip to Metro)

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