I have really weird problem in Portal 2. I have laptop HP Probook 4310s- Intel Core 2 Duo 2,2 GHz RAM 3GB, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 512 MB and I run Portal 2 very good. But, since last week or something like that I noticed that when I put my PC into hibernation or into sleep, and then turn it on again I have lags in Portal 2. Not that I have lower FPS than usually, but there are some lags and freezes. When I normally shut down the PC and then again turn it on, it's okay.
Very interesting thing is that in Dear Esther (game using portal 2 engine) I have the same problem.
I tried to reinstall steam, reinstall portal 2 itself after that, I tried to change video settings, I tried to turn off some aplications like Skype or Anti-Virus tool, I tried to update my video card drivers, I tried really everything- no effect. Still lags.
I really don't know what I should do, does anybody have an idea?????

PS (Because of Lpfreaky90 reply)- IT IS MEANED THAT I'm puting it into sleep or hibernation mode while game is NOT running.

Probably sleep mode ruins your game; my advice is shut your game down before letting your computer go to sleep mode or use hybernate.

moderator note: the title for your topic is really vague; a better one would've been "Problems with Portal 2 after sleep mode." We get it if you have a problem you'd like help

lpfreaky90 wrote:
Probably sleep mode ruins your game; my advice is shut your game down before letting your computer go to sleep mode or use hybernate.

moderator note: the title for your topic is really vague; a better one would've been "Problems with Portal 2 after sleep mode." We get it if you have a problem you'd like help

I didn't mention that it is meaned when game is not running, I don't know if I would be even able to put it into hibernation or sleep mode if game would be running.

Also thanks for the advice to change the topic name , I had to realize that it's not the best name for such a post

Usually computers don't really like placing huge RAM-using programs into hibernate. (since hibernation writes RAM to your harddisk)

Anyways: I don't know what causes this behavior you could make a screenshot of all processes just after a clean boot from off and see what processes run; save them; hibernate/sleep your computer; boot it and see if there are any new processes: maybe they cause your problems?

Ps: thanks for changing the title

lpfreaky90 wrote:
Usually computers don't really like placing huge RAM-using programs into hibernate. (since hibernation writes RAM to your harddisk)

Anyways: I don't know what causes this behavior you could make a screenshot of all processes just after a clean boot from off and see what processes run; save them; hibernate/sleep your computer; boot it and see if there are any new processes: maybe they cause your problems?

Ps: thanks for changing the title

Okay I'll try to do so, when I will know somethin I'll let you know , thanks.

This is kind of a longshot but, are you running a SSD?

I had a similar problem when I was running Intel's Rapid Storage through my SSD. That setup did NOT like being put in sleep mode. I always had to reboot before gaming of any kind.

I have this issue too after hibernating, one of the following usually works for me:
- Disable Aero
- In task manager, kill the "CCC" (AMD catalyst control center) program, and type ccc in the taskbar to launch it again. Only after starting it again the problem is solved when using this solution.