Anyone Know Why The Steam Window Can't Be Fully Resized?

Login Store Home Discovery Queue Wishlist Points Shop News Charts Community Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts About Support Change language Get the Steam Mobile App View desktop website © Valve Corporation. All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Privacy Policy | Legal | Accessibility | Steam Subscriber Agreement | Refunds STORE Home Discovery Queue Wishlist Points Shop News Charts COMMUNITY Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts About SUPPORT Install Steam login | language 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) 日本語 (Japanese) 한국어 (Korean) ไทย (Thai) Български (Bulgarian) Čeština (Czech) Dansk (Danish) Deutsch (German) Español - España (Spanish - Spain) Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America) Ελληνικά (Greek) Français (French) Italiano (Italian) Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) Magyar (Hungarian) Nederlands (Dutch) Norsk (Norwegian) Polski (Polish) Português (Portuguese - Portugal) Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil) Română (Romanian) Русский (Russian) Suomi (Finnish) Svenska (Swedish) Türkçe (Turkish) Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) Українська (Ukrainian) Report a translation problem All Discussions > Steam Forums > Off Topic > Topic Details Tusken GA View Profile View Posts 7 Nov, 2012 @ 12:38pm Anyone Know why the Steam Window can't be fully resized? Hey all. Like the title says, does anyone know why the Steam window can't be fully resized?On smaller monitors or makeshift monitors (read: Rear projection HD TVs with overscan whose resolution must be manually resized using the Nvidia control panel) part of the Steam window gets cut off because the window refuses to be made smaller.Anyone know why Valve limited it like that? < > Showing 1-7 of 7 comments Kollie View Profile View Posts 7 Nov, 2012 @ 12:40pm I imagine the Steam client gets a bit wonky (that's to say, it renders objects incorrectly) if it gets any smaller. #1 Shoes View Profile View Posts 26 Mar, 2013 @ 8:55pm Not being able to shrink the Steam window is very annoying.Either you have the tiny (crippled) Small mode or the bloated (feature rich) Large mode.Why can't there be a happy medium?I'd use Large mode if I could resize the window to something like 640x480. List view is great and has lots of key information, but there's too much wasted space.Or maybe Small mode could get the features from List view. Or even a multicolumn feature! #2 Rubik748 View Profile View Posts 26 Mar, 2013 @ 9:06pm Because they haven't noticed this? #3 Malkalen View Profile View Posts 26 Mar, 2013 @ 9:08pm I think they have noticed it, but they just assume that a large amount of steam users use a res higher than 1024x768 #4 Shoes View Profile View Posts 26 Mar, 2013 @ 9:25pm My desktop runs two 24"1920x1200 monitors.My laptop runs a 15" 1280x800 screen.In both cases I'm running Small mode. I have Steam open all the time but why should it take up 50-70% of the screen if I want to view List View, Downloads, Tools etc?Also, some games change and lock the resolution to 640 or 800 and alt tabbing will show an incomplete/cut off Steam UI. #5 pattyladd View Profile View Posts 3 Sep, 2021 @ 4:00pm So here we are nine years later, maybe time for a change steam. There called options for a reason. #6 Christian View Profile View Posts 3 Sep, 2021 @ 4:06pm

Originally posted by Pattyladd:So here we are nine years later, maybe time for a change steam. There called options for a reason.

They're great, those options! I'd be careful with rules; they're tricky. #7 < > Showing 1-7 of 7 comments Per page: 1530 50 All Discussions > Steam Forums > Off Topic > Topic Details Date Posted: 7 Nov, 2012 @ 12:38pmPosts: 7 Start a New Discussion Discussions Rules and Guidelines

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