Portal 2

Steam & DVD version

Application Details:

Version:	Steam
License:	Retail
URL:
Votes:	20
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.6

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Yuki

Test Results

Old test results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Single player (a few levels in without issues)

What does not

Nothing after workarounds.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer
Voice

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

I had to use the crack (updated crack as the comments below said) to get past the loading screen when launching the program. Also, though the intro movie had sound, the game did not. To work around this I found a command line option that enables sound for me "-wavonly". Check out http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Command_Line_Options#Command-line_parameters for a list of possible command line parameters. I also use "-nointro" to skip the intro, "-dev" to enable dev console (~ console), and "+cl_showfps 2" because I like having the FPS meter. Runs smooth (60-200+ FPS) I also added params to manually set the window dimensions and run in windowed mode: "-width 1600 -height 848" All together, my launcher looks like this: env WINEPREFIX="/home//.wine" wine "/home//.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/portal 2/portal2.exe" -width 1600 -height 848 -nointro -dev +cl_showfps 2 -wavonly I did *not* need to set the disableoverlay option that others set, nor run anything through winetricks, though I may have had something installed before through winetricks. Also the console font is a little unreadable by default, to fix this get a version of lucon.ttf and put it in /home//.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jul 24 2013	1.6	Yes	Yes		Gold	Artur h0m3
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 17 2013	1.6-rc2	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Eric
Show	Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 10 2013	1.5.21	Yes	Yes		Platinum	MR_squiggley
Show	Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 08 2013	1.5.19	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Gareth Schakel
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 7.x "Wheezy"	Dec 14 2012	1.5.19	Yes	Yes		Gold	Artur h0m3

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
24684	Multiple Source engine based games (Steam): out-of-order rendering, bloom effect and lights are visible through walls when multicore rendering is enabled	NEW		View
27453	Lag when loading new sound in source games	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

Sugestions about Test result submit

This notes was updated: August 03 - 2013

First of all, thank you for spend your time helping wine to get better,

I like to make some suggestions to make the tests results more organized and better to all users:

Put your PC specifications at the Extra Coments section like your video card, cpu, and system memory.
It's important to put your video card drivers into extra coments section.
Specify if you installed the game into a fresh prefix (or not), and what programs are you installed.
Tell what version of the windows emulation you use in your wine (at winecfg).
Add a comment about what is don't working.
Tell if you put any official or unnoficial path on your game like a diferent version of some .exe or a modification on some config file from the game.
Please, don't put tests results like "Everything is working" or "Everything is not working".

These are just suggestions to make tests result more clean and more fast to be submitted.

How-to install the game

You need:

A recent version of wine, 1.3.28 or newest, it's recommended the lastest release.
A video card with 3D Acceleration suport on your unix.
The official 3D driver installed and working for that card.
It's not necessary a clean prefix, but it's recommended.

First download steam from here, install following the steps on Steam page and install the game trought steam.

Be sure that 3D support is working, you can check this by typing the follow command:

glxinfo | grep "direct rendering:"

It's also recomended to install the following fonts: tahoma.ttf, arial.ttf and verdana.ttf.

I recommend that you install the Visual C Runtime, download-it from here and here and install on your prefix.

To override the wine vcrun with the native one you need to create a file called vcrun.reg with the follow content:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides]
"msvcr80"="native,builtin"
"msvcr90"="native,builtin"

Then run the follow command:

env WINEPREFIX="(your-prefix)" WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine regedit ./vcrun.reg

The game shoud work fine. Any problem, you can see the Troubleshoot notes, post a comment or submit a bug at Bugzilla.

Workarounds

For problems related with Steam itself, please visit the Steam Official Release page.

Can't change the resolution or go to fullscreen.

Right click on the game at steam and go to: Proprieties > Set Launch Options and type:

-full -w (your width resolution) -h (your height resolution).

Portal 2 is crashing before you enter the menu.

You need to check your game cache, on Steam right-click on portal 2 and go to Proprieties > Local Files (Tab) > Verify integrity of game cache.

Some people with Portal 2 is still suffering with the problem "crashing before the menu" and verifying the integrity of the game don't work. Solutions that worked for some people:

Uninstall portal 2, and download again through steam (don't reinstall from DVD, download-it again).
Install steam through winetricks.
Disable the Steam Overlay by setting the gameoverlayrenderer library to disabled on winecfg.
Set winecfg to emulate Windows 7.

My suggestion is, if you tried everything and still have this problem, submit a new bug, or, ask to reopen the bug #26835.

Portal 2 has some ugly textures, or everything is yellow/green, the light is showing trought the wall.

Set the Multicore Rendering to Disabled/Off on graphics options into the game.

View more details about this bug here (Bug #24684).

When launch Portal 2 i got the "In order to run Steam properly on this version of Windows, the Steam service component must be installed." error.

The solution for this bug is to set the version of windows to XP, to do that, open your winecfg and set Windows Version to Windows XP.

The game is ramdomly crash after some minutes playing.

Try to check the integrity of the game, to do that, on your steam, right click on your Portal 2 Proprieties > Local Files (Tab) > Verify integrity of game cache.

Also, try to install these fonts on your wine prefix (drive_c/windows/Fonts): lucida.ttf, tahoma.ttf, arial.ttf and times.ttf.

The game wont start or crash at start.

Try to install vcrun2005 and vcrun2008, follow the How-To install tutorial.

The game is laggy on some maps, the FPS is very low.

Try to lower the AntiAliasing (AA), or even turn off AA.

General Troubleshoot.

Verify if your video driver is installed properly.
Install steam and Portal 2 to a separated prefix.
Set prefix version to Windows XP.
Close Portal 2 and steam, and reboot wine by typing wineserver -k.
Check integrity of the game trought steam, you can do that by right click on the game and going on Proprieties.
You can reinstall Portal 2 and Steam again in a fresh prefix, just copy the folder (your-prefix)/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps that contain all the Portal 2 files.

Old Problems.

Note: These problems don't affect the newest versions of wine, it's only here for precaution, if you have any of these bug's maybe you should upgrade your wine version.

Mouse randomly jumps around menu or in game.
This is caused by the new implementation of mouse input in wine, to solve-it, you need to run the game in Windowed mode or into a Virtual Desktop.

On wine older than 1.3.28 Portal Exists at Menu Screen.

If you're using a version older than 1.3.28 you're soffer Portal Exists at Menu Screen Problem (More info at bug #26835).

To solve the Portal Exists at Menu Screen, Download and apply this patch to your wine compilation.

On wine older than 1.3.28 Portal ramdomly crash after 5 or more minutes of gameplay.

If you're using a version older than 1.3.28 you're soffer of the 5-Minutes crash (More info at bug #27877) and you have to apply one patch to solve.

To solve the 5-Minutes Crash, download and apply this patch to your wine compilation.

Comments

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Portal 2 graphics problem
by Mike Freeman on Wednesday January 29th 2014, 14:06

I'm trying to run Portal 2 via Steam, through WINE, in its own separate WINE prefix, on Linux Mint 13. The computer runs on a Radeon HD 4200 with the latest proprietary Legacy drivers (Catalyst 13.1). I'm currently using WINE 1.7.11, but I've tried several others from 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 versions.

When I launch Portal 2 from Steam, it displays garbage on the screen, like distorted remnants of old graphics memory, which flickers. I can hear sound (from the startup Valve video, the music behind the main menu, and the bleeps from moving the mouse over each menu option. But I can't see anything useful. I've tried every permutation of settings in the Catalyst control panel I can think of. I've installed every version of D3D library that winetricks offers, and I've tried without it. I have vcrun2005 and 2008 installed. I have tried all the "fixes" suggested in all of the forums I can find, although none describe a problem like mine. I've never seen this happen on any other WINE program.

Does anyone have any ideas of what to try next, other than wait for the excruciatingly-slow-in-coming native Linux version of Portal 2? Thanks!