Black Screen When Using Bigbox Through Steamlink

[AxlPaints]

Hi All,

I would like to know if anyone has had a similar problem to what I have.

When I start Bigbox through Steam BigPicture using a TV with Steamlink, I get a black screen with audio, but when I start an emulator the screen goes back to normal and everything plays as it should be.

If it exit said emulator, the screen goes back to a blackscreen or a frozen image of what I was playing on the emulator, but you can hear the Bigbox audio.

If I start Bigbox through the "launch" button in the regular steam interface, the exact thing happens.

However, if I launch Bigbox in desktop mode by clicking on the actual .exe file (not from Steam in any way), it shows on my TV except the controls do not work because Steam does not recognize BigBox as a game (I guess?).

This is really frustrating, and I have been playing with different display and streaming settings with no success.

Could anybody provide advise? If it is of any help, my main display is 1080p while the TV is 4k, but like I said, Bigbox runs normally when not being launched from Steam.

Thank you in advance.

 

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I have none of these issues if I do run BB through Steam on the actual computer. This conflict only happens when running BB through Steam using Steamlink.

Edited May 17, 2019 by AxlPaints

[AxlPaints]

Bump

[neil9000]

2 minutes ago, AxlPaints said:

Bump

Its probably related to startup/shutdown screens and or pause screens, try disabling them.

[LeandroKoiti]

So I finally figure out a way to solve this problem, I don't know which of the following settings solved it, but now I can launch BigBox from Steamlink and see BigBox running on my mobile:

On Steam, I disabled the following settings:

• Shader Pre-Caching
  • [UNCHECKED] Enable Shader Pre-Caching
• Controller
  • [CHECKED] Disable controller connected notifications in the  desktop client
• Remote Play
  • Advanced Host Options
    • Unchecked EVERYTHING (from Play audio on host to Enable hardware encoding on Intel iGPU)
• Interface 
  • Unchecked EVERYTHING from Scale text and icons to match monitor settings to Notify me about additions or changes to my games...,  
    EXCEPT Run Steam when my computer starts, this one I left CHECKED
• In-Games 
  • Unchecked
    • Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game
    • Use the Big Picture Overlay...
    • Use Desktop Game theatre...
    • Display a notification
    • Save an uncompressed copy
       

I'm pretty sure there are options that can be checked/unchecked but I didn't try them yet, just wanted to help those with the same problem I had, after you see BigBox working you can get back and check/uncheck each option one at a time to see which one was causing the blank screen problema.