Portal

Portal is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.

Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.whatistheorangebox....
Votes:	13
Latest Rating:	Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested:	3.0.3

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Test Results

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What works

Intro Video

What does not

The rest. Black screen after starting. After that kick back to the desktop with steam still running.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Couldn't get into the game, so nothing else was tested.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

See my message "Portal doesn't start" on the portal page for details....

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)	Sep 28 2018	3.0.3	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	User
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Aug 12 2014	1.7.19	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 16 2013	1.5.22	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	William J May
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 11 2013	1.5.22	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	William J May
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 01 2012	1.5.9	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
10841	Restore display resolution when focus is lost or on exit	RESOLVED	NOTOURBUG	View
22912	Half Life 2 and Portal subtitles unreadable	NEW		View
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

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

Installing Portal

Install wine-1.0.0 or later. Older versions have a number of bugs that cause game to crash in some places.
Install and configure Steam
Installing Portal from Steam should work as-is without any problems.

Playing Portal

Disable / remove beryl / compiz. Wine does not work with them
Disable / Steam Community In-Game. All games will crash with it enabled.
Add "-dxlevel 80" command line option to the Portal game, or start with following command (adjust options as required)
```
wine steam -silent -applaunch 400 -window -novid -dxlevel 80 -width 1024 -height 768
```

Note, the above options can also be added from within Steam by right-clicking the game, choosing 'Properties' and choosing 'Set launch options...'. Obviously, there is no need for the '-applaunch 400' option when changing options in this way.

Some people reported setting hl2.exe to win98 in winecfg fixes any other crashes. Most of these crashes are fixed in wine-0.9.49 or newer

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