Start Your Gaming PC Like a Console | How to Boot Hands-Free Guide

I built a gaming pc that sits in my av rack primarily to run a golf simulator in the basement and also serves as my office computer on the main floor. We had a lot of cat 6 cables run when the house was built which was key to utilizing KVM extenders. Now I've started gaming in the home theater as well. It's not for the feint of heart getting 4 monitors (golf Sim projector, golf Sim TV, office monitor, home theater projector) running smoothly at all times with duplicated and extended windows desktops but man it is slick now that it's running smoothly.

I’m gonna fucking lose my fucking mind. This is my ultimate dream setup - full blown hands free ultimate console setup to pair with my CX65. Saw your OG video and passed it on it for a few while things got out of beta. Today’s the day baby. Just like you, I will be building my 4090 monster machine, to play games in glorious 4k 100FPS orgasmic quality. Hands free, running with emulation station to truly play any and every single game in existence maxed to the balls . Thank you for this my friend.

This is extremely helpful.

Playnite Launcher also has a similar feature like Big Picture Mode, it's a nice alternative if you don't use Steam much.

Great video brotha

Had the issue where the check box to remove the password wasn’t there. Here’s what fixed it for me: make sure you go into windows settings and remove all the windows hello options (I had pin and fingerprint reader enabled). Also, if one of them is greyed out, there’s a slider right underneath those that says something like “require windows hello to sign in” make sure that’s off. Then the check box should appear allowing you to disable the password.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks!

Cool video.

u can control the desktop with steam check the desktop steam config

I just set everything up, it works perfectly but it’s a bit slow for steam to start

thanks for the video. One question 🙋🏻‍♂️ What about the pc noise? Is it loud? Have you managed to keep it as quiet as possible?

What about adding rums in games from other launchers like the blizzard launcher?

Great video! 👍

Great video! I'm building a PC for this exact reason. I'm not super familiar with big picture mode, but is there a way to talk to my friends through it? I usually use discord and wasn't sure how easy it would be to set up as a console experience.

Can I build a same Steam big picture console for a TV on an operating system StemsOS 2 or 3?

Can you put it in rest mode and then turn in on properly? In my case when I try to turn it on again, there is sound but I get a black screen

Nice, I've created simple boot menu with two elements. PC(normal boot) and Console(Steam big picture mode) and I can turn on a pc with a controller.

Can I share my steam library across multiple windows accounts? I wanna set one account up with only steam and booting into steam big picture, but also have another windows account and use it as a "normal" pc experience. Since my desk is right next to my tv in my living room. I just don't want to have to download a game twice (one partition per account). So if my console account downloads a game the normal pc experience account has the game downloaded as well. To select the windows user I would buy a wireless mouse. Do you know if that is possible?

In the last video, who makes the remote control you were using to turn on the PC? I looked but the camera wasnt focused enough to read the box you held up!