portal 2 style map for portal 1

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lewisnova
6 Posts
Posted Feb 10, 2012
right i know portal 2 is out and your gonna say why dont you get portal 2 well i do have it but it wont launch maps on my system and i was hoping that somone could point me to a map for portal 1 with all the portal 2 stuff (gels faithplates ect) just so i can prove to valve that it is posible for portal 2 to work in the old source engine
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dinnesch
105 Posts
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Valve knows they could have chosen to waste a lot of time on making their game work on even older machines than it already does. Glad they chose to put effort in making a quality game, instead.

Portal 2 should run on a 2004 game machine, the minimum specs are a Pentium 4 3GHz and a Radeon X800. You could try updating your video drivers or if your PC is that old just get a new one. The source engine is very friendly to old PCs compared to what most games use.

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spongylover123
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Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Portal 2 has new entities that Portal dont, it uses scripting, it also has blob tech, improved particles, New models, textures, that you cant convert, but portal 2 can work on low end computers.
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Spam Nugget
492 Posts
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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I run portal 2 on a laptop with a 2.13ghz processor and integrated graphics. Generally I can have everything set to the highest quality too. If portal 2 doesnt run on your pc, then its time to update mate.
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lewisnova
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Posted Feb 11, 2012
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Spam Nugget wrote:
I run portal 2 on a laptop with a 2.13ghz processor and integrated graphics. Generally I can have everything set to the highest quality too. If portal 2 doesnt run on your pc, then its time to update mate.

how do you do that? cus my laptop is new

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Spam Nugget
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Posted Feb 11, 2012
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what are the specs?
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lewisnova
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Posted Feb 11, 2012
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Spam Nugget wrote:
what are the specs?

http://pastebin.com/w2iNVdt4

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dinnesch
105 Posts
Posted Feb 11, 2012
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Your video drivers are outdated, update them and try again.
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wrathofmobius
216 Posts
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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If that doesn't work, I had an issue on my laptop where the map would launch but a couple of seconds in, it'd crash. It appears to be linked to integrated graphics. I can't remember the exact fix but it had something to do with deleting a config file every time you wanted to play.
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lewisnova
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Posted Feb 12, 2012
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wrathofmobius wrote:
If that doesn't work, I had an issue on my laptop where the map would launch but a couple of seconds in, it'd crash. It appears to be linked to integrated graphics. I can't remember the exact fix but it had something to do with deleting a config file every time you wanted to play.

my problems more like it finishes the map load but then the graphics display crashes 3 or 4 times then it goes to blue screen but ill do the update and try your idea

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wrathofmobius
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Posted Feb 12, 2012
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I found the file: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\cfg\videodefaults.cfg
Just delete it whenever you want to play. However, your video settings will have reverted to the defaults, so you'll have to change them back to probably lower settings.