Permanently disable Big Picture?

[Joaquin]

Is there a way to permanently disable Steam's Big Picture?

Every time I turn off my Xbox One controller, Steam activates Big Picture and it's getting frustrating. I've looked everywhere and can't find a solution to stop or completely remove this feature. Thanks.

[Dr. Steve Brule]

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[AV ON]

^ That doesn't work on my end. Steam still launches its god awful Big Picture Mde if I press the controller guide button to turn it on or off.

As OP asks, let us permanently disable that lame feature.

[Forcen]

Have you unchecked ALL the checkboxes in the general controller settings?

[XShortestStrawX]

Originally posted by Forcen:

Have you unchecked ALL the checkboxes in the general controller settings?

Same issue as OP, yes all boxes are unchecked and big picture still opens randomly.

[Forcen]

"Opens randomly" is not the issue OP had? No pattern what so ever?

['rizzm with the 'tism]

same problem here. Sometimes it just starts. Hating it.

[ZeroKami]

Please, Valve, let us opt-out of BPM. It has its uses for living room play, but for true PC play it is just garbage. Just add a checkbox to the settings menu somewhere to disable BPM, that's all we ask.

[CFW Magic]

Since Valve doesn't seem to understand that forcing BPM onto people will only make the client base hate it more, and since Valve seems to be incapable for adding a simple UI switch to opt out of the waste of space that is BPM, here is a workaround:

Go to your steam installation folder, then into the bin folder, like so:

[Your Path to Steam]\Steam\bin

Inside, you will see a folder named "panorama". This is the evil folder which you need to cleanse. Now, there is a problem. Steam will automatically restore BPM because Valve can't seem to accept that people don't want to be forced into their bad ideas.

So. In order to prevent Steam from ever running big picture again, you have to shut down steam first, so it doesn't see what you're doing. Then you go into the panorama folder and delete ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

Back out of it. Now this is very important. Right click the panorama folder, make it read only, then go to the security tab. This is where you can edit permissions for said folder. You should see multiple groups, such as "System", "Authenticated Users", "Adminsitrator" and so on. Click "edit".

Make sure that you DENY access to EVERY group. Absolutely every group. You have to do this because steam runs in administrator mode, so if you make the panorama folder read only, Steam can actually pretend it's an admin, remove the read-only tag and stubbornly re-instal the Big Picture garbage. Without permissions even for admins (even for yourself), steam can't do that anymore.

Now, steam can't access the big picture directory and can't re-install this piece of trash on your machine. The big picture buttons will still be present in the UI, but when steam tried to launch Big Trash Mode from now on, it'll only pop up an error. No more lag. No more corporate decisions which the players never wanted. Just games without hassle.


And to Valve:

Look what you have made us do. We have to look for glitches and tricks to fix your mistakes. You've included a way to disable the controller button. That's nice. But that doesn't solve the problem. We don't want to just disable Big Picture. We want to OPT OUT OF IT. So long as you fail to understand that a vast majority of PC players don't need an XBOX 360 UI rip off on their machine, we'll have to continue protecting our machines against the Big Picture malware. Make life easier for everyone. Allow us to opt out of Big Picture Mode completely.

[The Onyx Tiger]

Originally posted by CFW Magic:

Since Valve doesn't seem to understand that forcing BPM onto people will only make the client base hate it more, and since Valve seems to be incapable for adding a simple UI switch to opt out of the waste of space that is BPM, here is a workaround:

Go to your steam installation folder, then into the bin folder, like so:

[Your Path to Steam]\Steam\bin

Inside, you will see a folder named "panorama". This is the evil folder which you need to cleanse. Now, there is a problem. Steam will automatically restore BPM because Valve can't seem to accept that people don't want to be forced into their bad ideas.

So. In order to prevent Steam from ever running big picture again, you have to shut down steam first, so it doesn't see what you're doing. Then you go into the panorama folder and delete ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

Back out of it. Now this is very important. Right click the panorama folder, make it read only, then go to the security tab. This is where you can edit permissions for said folder. You should see multiple groups, such as "System", "Authenticated Users", "Adminsitrator" and so on. Click "edit".

Make sure that you DENY access to EVERY group. Absolutely every group. You have to do this because steam runs in administrator mode, so if you make the panorama folder read only, Steam can actually pretend it's an admin, remove the read-only tag and stubbornly re-instal the Big Picture garbage. Without permissions even for admins (even for yourself), steam can't do that anymore.

Now, steam can't access the big picture directory and can't re-install this piece of trash on your machine. The big picture buttons will still be present in the UI, but when steam tried to launch Big Trash Mode from now on, it'll only pop up an error. No more lag. No more corporate decisions which the players never wanted. Just games without hassle.


And to Valve:

Look what you have made us do. We have to look for glitches and tricks to fix your mistakes. You've included a way to disable the controller button. That's nice. But that doesn't solve the problem. We don't want to just disable Big Picture. We want to OPT OUT OF IT. So long as you fail to understand that a vast majority of PC players don't need an XBOX 360 UI rip off on their machine, we'll have to continue protecting our machines against the Big Picture malware. Make life easier for everyone. Allow us to opt out of Big Picture Mode completely.

I just wanted to post that this absolutely worked like a charm!

I have a PS4 and generally connect my PS4 controller to my PC to charge it since it's closer than the system itself, and whenever I go to press the PS Button it launched Big Picture. It was infuriating. None of the past 5 articles helped but this did. Thank you.

[CFW Magic]

Originally posted by Aaron552™:

Glad I could help lad! Enjoy your Steam client no longer slowing down to a crawl every time you have a controller plugged in!

[SRG]

Originally posted by CFW Magic:

You are the wiz. thanks a lot! I hate that BPM stuff... now it throws error notification that steam cant create big picture panorama, well it is much better than annoying full screen render

[The Onyx Tiger]

Originally posted by SRG:

Originally posted by CFW Magic:

You are the wiz. thanks a lot! I hate that BPM stuff... now it throws error notification that steam cant create big picture panorama, well it is much better than annoying full screen render

+1

[CFW Magic]

Originally posted by SRG:

Originally posted by Aaron552™:

You're welcome lads. I'm hoping Valve will eventually sober up and finally make BPM optional. Until then though, that error pop up is as close as we can get to reducing performance impact.

[The Onyx Tiger]

Originally posted by CFW Magic:

Originally posted by SRG:

Originally posted by Aaron552™:

You're welcome lads. I'm hoping Valve will eventually sober up and finally make BPM optional. Until then though, that error pop up is as close as we can get to reducing performance impact.

Especially when using a controller.

I have my PS4 and PC connected to my TV via HDMI and if I'm charging my controller via my PC while playing PS4 and use the Home button it opens Big Picture and I have to pause my game, switch HDMIs, and disable it. And it happens more than once.

[Intrus]

Originally posted by CFW Magic:

Go to your steam installation folder, then into the bin folder, like so:

[Your Path to Steam]\Steam\bin

Inside, you will see a folder named "panorama".

So. In order to prevent Steam from ever running big picture again, you have to shut down steam first, so it doesn't see what you're doing. Then you go into the panorama folder and delete ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

Back out of it. Now this is very important. Right click the panorama folder, make it read only, then go to the security tab. This is where you can edit permissions for said folder. You should see multiple groups, such as "System", "Authenticated Users", "Adminsitrator" and so on. Click "edit".

Make sure that you DENY access to EVERY group. Absolutely every group.

Thanks a lot.
It's working for me.
Steam "can't re-install this piece of trash on [my] machine" :)