Steam Screenshot Screensaver

[Psycold]

I had an idea today, copy shortcuts of all of my screenshot folders into my pictures folder and let my computer use the links to flip through the images while the screensaver is on. It worked, but I ran into a couple of small issues like how it also links the thumbnails, so you have an equal amount of tiny pixelated images playing. Maybe Valve could implement some sort of optional feature for Snooze mode where it starts a sreensaver slide show using all of your Steam screenshots. Would anyone besides me use something like that?

[Spawn of Totoro]

You can do this already with Windows Screensaver.

Right clock on desktop.
Click Personalize.
Click Screensaver.
On the Pull down menu, pick Photos.

You can customize the directory and other options under setings.

To find the photos:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1770000

Probebly best to copy them to a diffrent directory. The Steam Screenshots are stored in a weird way.

[Psycold]

Unfortunately all you can change there is how fast the slide show plays slides, there is no option for only using high resolution images, etc. The best work-around I found, is to do a search on all of your jpg's in your Steam's Common folder, then sort using details by Size and scroll through the small ones until you get to the first high res image, copy shortcuts from all the high resolution ones into their own folder or into your pictures folder and make sure the screensaver settings are going to that folder.

[Spawn of Totoro]

There is a Browse option to choose a directory too. Just put the pictures you want in the same directory. The link I posted shows where the pictures are, so no search needed.

You Steam screenshots should already be a good resolution to use. Just don't use the thumbnails located in a sub directory in the same folder.

Steam doesn't need to make a screensaver when MS has already provided us with one. We just need to use it.

[Psycold]

I think you are missing the point though, I want it to work with all of my games, not just one game, and I don't want to have to go to each games screenshot directory to make copies of each link. Your way would work fine for picking one game folder and using that for a screensaver, but using all the games requires going through the files and removing the thumbnail images and any other weird jpgs, bmp's etc that do not belong in a slideshow. A Steam-specific screensaver would know exactly which files are full resolution screen shots and which ones were thumbnails, and you wouldn't have to worry about updating your screensaver folder links when you get a new game or add new screenshots.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Just copy them to the same directory, leaving the thumbnail behind. My way works for all screenshots.

Steam does not need to waste time making a screen saver that already exists. You just need to tak a single minute to get it to work the way toy want it.

Considering that the main photos are there and in the same format and reselution, you don't need to sort them at all. Just don't copy the thumbnail directory.

[Psycold]

Nah you still don't get it apparently, thank you for the suggestions though.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I get it, you want Steam to make you a screensaver (takes time and money to do) that picks your high resolution screenshots (screenshots that match your screen's native resolution) and makes a screensaver/slideshow with them.

Something that laready exists, you just need to take a little time to pick the pictures you want to use.

O'h, look. I have it set up already with 50 screenshots from 15 diffrent games, and I did it in less then 2 minutes.

[Psycold]

That is why it is a suggestion, Steam is always adding new things as long as people want them. Your way sucks, I'm sorry but I don't want to have to go and add a new folder of screenshots everytime I install a new game since they are all in seperate directories, and making a built in screensaver designed for Steam would not be very hard. Obviously you don't want this feature so thank you and please move on! :)

[Spawn of Totoro]

You don't know anything about programming if you think it will be easy to do. :-P

QA testing too, to make sure a line of code doesn't break anything already in Steam.

It all takes time and money. Remember, you want it smart enough to pick the pictures for you too. That requires an algorithm that is customizable to work with different resolutions.

Now, why would they make it?

Not "don't want" so much as "it isn't needed" because a way already exists.

[Psycold]

For god's sake...go away...

[Arno]

Originally posted by Psycold:

I had an idea today, copy shortcuts of all of my screenshot folders into my pictures folder and let my computer use the links to flip through the images while the screensaver is on. It worked, but I ran into a couple of small issues like how it also links the thumbnails, so you have an equal amount of tiny pixelated images playing. Maybe Valve could implement some sort of optional feature for Snooze mode where it starts a sreensaver slide show using all of your Steam screenshots. Would anyone besides me use something like that?

I was just having this same thought (hence how I found this search result)! Obviously Valve isn't still watching this nearly-five-year-old post, but on the off-chance you're still subscribed to it...you should be able to fudge this with a Powershell script that enumerates all your screenshot directories, then makes symlinks (I'm from UNIX-land, not sure what the MS Windows equivalent term is) in a single directory which you could then add to your OS screensaver. This may not have been true in 2012, but with the current version the thumbnails are in a separate directory so skipping them in the script should be trivial.

[Psycold]

Originally posted by Arno:

Originally posted by Psycold:

I had an idea today, copy shortcuts of all of my screenshot folders into my pictures folder and let my computer use the links to flip through the images while the screensaver is on. It worked, but I ran into a couple of small issues like how it also links the thumbnails, so you have an equal amount of tiny pixelated images playing. Maybe Valve could implement some sort of optional feature for Snooze mode where it starts a sreensaver slide show using all of your Steam screenshots. Would anyone besides me use something like that?

I was just having this same thought (hence how I found this search result)! Obviously Valve isn't still watching this nearly-five-year-old post, but on the off-chance you're still subscribed to it...you should be able to fudge this with a Powershell script that enumerates all your screenshot directories, then makes symlinks (I'm from UNIX-land, not sure what the MS Windows equivalent term is) in a single directory which you could then add to your OS screensaver. This may not have been true in 2012, but with the current version the thumbnails are in a separate directory so skipping them in the script should be trivial.

Hey good call, wow...I barely remember typing that comment.

[EXiTiUM]

Bumping this thread because it's a cool idea and would be neat on the steam deck in Steam OS 3.0

[Psycold]

Originally posted by EXiTiUM:

Bumping this thread because it's a cool idea and would be neat on the steam deck in Steam OS 3.0

Wow 9 year old thread of mine, nostalgia!