Aperture Desk Job
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Developers | |
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Valve Corporation | |
Engines | |
Source 2 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 1, 2022 |
Linux | March 1, 2022 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | Freeware |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control, Gestures, Voice control |
Genres | Action |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | North America |
Series | Portal |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Subseries of Half-Life | |
Portal | 2007 |
Portal 2 | 2011 |
Portal 2 Sixense Perceptual Pack | 2013 |
Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (unofficial mod) | 2014 |
Portal Stories (series) | |
The Lab | 2016 |
Bridge Constructor Portal | 2017 |
Moondust | 2018 |
Aperture Hand Lab | 2019 |
Aperture Desk Job | 2022 |
Aperture Desk Job is an interactive tech demo for the Steam Deck set in the Portal universe.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
- Aperture Desk Job requires a controller in order to play, keyboard and mouse are not supported.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Steam |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\game\steampal\cfg\video.txt[Note 1] |
Linux |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\game\steampal\cfg\machine_convars.vcfg[Note 1] |
Linux |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Letterboxed or Vert- if narrower or wider than 16:10, respectively. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Vert- however. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | 4x MSAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse, touch | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Keyboard is not supported. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Only for Menu Navigation. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Touchscreen optimised | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | Designed for Steam Deck, but works with most controllers. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Controller remapping can be done through Steam Input's Controller Layout page. | |
Controller sensitivity | You can only change the Camera Sensitivity for Mouse-like Camera actions (such as [Gyro Aim Turret] and [Right Trackball]) on Steam Input's Controller Layout page.[1] | |
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | Instead of traditional prompts, the in-game desk has buttons with labels that match Steam Deck buttons.[Note 2] | |
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | ||
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Game does not support keyboard & mouse. |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | ||
Official controller preset(s) | Steam Deck, DualShock 4, Xbox One Controller, Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and Steam Controller | |
Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Bulgarian | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Greek | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Romanian | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Swedish | ||||
Thai | ||||
Turkish | ||||
Ukrainian | ||||
Vietnamese |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 11 | |
Vulkan | Accessible through Windows when using the command line -vulkan |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
Linux |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Steam Audio | |
Interface | Qt | |
Input | SDL |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-7500 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 | |
System memory (RAM) | 12 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB of VRAM | |
Other | Steam Deck |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | SteamOS | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-7500 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 | |
System memory (RAM) | 12 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB of VRAM | |
Other | Steam Deck |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ Although: the Face Buttons mirrors Xbox prompts.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Al2009man on 2022-03-17
- Increased the Camera Sensitivity in Chapter 5-onwards and rebinds [Aim Turret] to [Right Trackball] camera, which also doubles as a Camera for the Turret section