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Revision as of 00:08, 16 February 2014

Portal
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Developers
Valve Corporation
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows October 9, 2007
macOS (OS X) May 12, 2010
Linux May 2, 2013
Portal on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Subseries of Half-Life
Portal 2007
Portal 2 2011
Portal 2 Sixense Perceptual Pack 2013
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Portal Stories (series)
The Lab 2016
Bridge Constructor Portal 2017
Moondust 2018
Aperture Hand Lab 2019
Aperture Desk Job 2022

Key points

Frequently goes on sale, even occasionally becoming free
Runs on low-end hardware

General information

Official Valve Portal Site
Unofficial Portal Wiki
Portal Section of the Half-Life Wikia
GitHub Issue Tracker for Portal and other Source-based games
Steam Users' Forums
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Template:Availability Table

All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400/pfx/[Note 1]
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/400/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games and settings.

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Instructions

Oculus Rift

Instructions

Input settings

File:Portal controls.jpg
Controls settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Purple and black broken textures

A generic fix for this issue can be found on our Source engine page.

Game crashes when going through a portal (Windows)

Instructions

I can't see my crosshair

Instructions

Other information

Console commands

Games running on the Source engine can utilize Source Engine Console Commands for various tasks.
Instructions
You can also have the console open by default on launch by following this guide:
Instructions

Launch options

View this Steam Support Article regarding launch options as well as the relevant Valve Developer wiki page for further information and a list of useful Source engine launch options.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce3
ATi Radeon 8500
128 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8, 10.6.3
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
ATI Radeon X1600

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References