Steam – Resize Steam Overlay

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When opening a shortcut to Burnout Paradise from the Steam Big-Picture Mode, the size of the overlay is inconsistent.

Is there a way to set it to be a consistent size so it will always be small and never take up 1/4 of the screen with notifications?

I am using Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview with Steam Beta if that makes a difference

Best Answer

The Big Picture skin itself is not actually modifiable [at least not as of yet] because everything is reset when the client starts.

The best option, AFAIK, would probably be to use some command-line options for Big Picture mode:

  • -480p - Run tenfoot in 480p rather than 1080p
  • -720p - Run tenfoot in 720p rather than 1080p
  • -bigpicture - Start in Steam Big Picture mode
  • -fulldesktopres - Run tenfoot in full desktop resolution rather than 1080p, overrides -720p as well.
  • -nobigpicture - Start in regular mode (force Big Picture mode off)
  • -tenfoot - Start in Steam Big Picture mode
  • -windowed - Run Steam tenfoot mode in a window rather than a fullscreen borderless window

I think -bigpicture -fulldesktopres should work for you (or -tenfoot instead of -bigpicture). These can be added to a shortcuts 'Target' to make it easy -- otherwise you'll have to use the command-line and open Steam.exe with the args you choose, which is what Mac is forced to do (open -a Steam.app --args argsgohere), and possibly Linux too but I don't know because I don't know Linux well enough.

Also not sure if this will help with the notifications being massive; if not they may be part of an editable portion of the skin but I wouldn't count on it because BP has it's own overlay definition AFAIK.

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