Difference between revisions of "The Lab"

Revision as of 18:52, 6 January 2020

Warnings

This game requires a virtual reality headset (see VR support for details).


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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

Dota
Dota 2	2013
The Lab: Secret Shop	2016
Artifact	2018
Dota Underlords	2020

Key points

Contains 8 VR mini-games, including:

Robot Repair, set in the Portal universe.
Slingshot, set in the Portal universe.
Secret Shop, set in the Dota universe.
Longbow
Xortex
Postcards
Human Medical Scan
Solar System

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Valve\TheLab\PlayerData.txt
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/450390/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Valve\TheLab\PlayerData.txt
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/450390/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian

VR support

This game requires a virtual reality headset.

Headsets	State	Notes
SteamVR
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Windows Mixed Reality
OSVR

Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse

Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4590 AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 290

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ Unity engine build: 5.4.0f3^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (450390) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19

[2] Unity engine build: 5.4.0f3^[1]

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (450390) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (450390) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[engineversion-1] Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

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Developers

	Valve Corporation
Engines
The Lab / Secret Shop	Unity 5^{[Note 1]}
Robot Repair	Source 2
Release dates
Windows	April 5, 2016