Many Steam games are trash on BigBox

[JoeHd1031]

Just setup BigBox on a wall cab and integrated about 10 Steam games. Half of them trip out BigBox and it goes back to its menu while the game stays in foreground. I changed the load delay to 25 seconds which helped but there are still a bunch that cause all kinds of lost focus issues. Any workarounds? 

[faeran]

On 8/10/2026 at 11:10 PM, JoeHd1031 said:

Just setup BigBox on a wall cab and integrated about 10 Steam games. Half of them trip out BigBox and it goes back to its menu while the game stays in foreground. I changed the load delay to 25 seconds which helped but there are still a bunch that cause all kinds of lost focus issues. Any workarounds? 

For Steam games, I'm guessing you are referring to the Startup Screens ending before the Steam game has time to load up, or that a splash screen or something gets in the way and fools Big Box into thinking that the game has loaded and it closes its Startup Screen. If that's the case, the good news is that currently in beta, and coming very soon to the next release build, game monitoring is completely rewritten, to address this very issue (amongst other things).

[JoeHd1031]

7 hours ago, faeran said:

For Steam games, I'm guessing you are referring to the Startup Screens ending before the Steam game has time to load up, or that a splash screen or something gets in the way and fools Big Box into thinking that the game has loaded and it closes its Startup Screen. If that's the case, the good news is that currently in beta, and coming very soon to the next release build, game monitoring is completely rewritten, to address this very issue (amongst other things).

Turns out it was the third screen plugin. I didn't know BB could do marquee videos on a second screen so I used third screen to do it and it was causing focus loss.