Portal 2 gets fresh PC update

By Fred Dutton Published 2 May, 2011

Valve patches up bugs and system crashes.

A new update for the PC version of Portal 2 hit Steam over the weekend.

No major changes have been made but a number of crash-causing bugs have been squashed and a few localisation issues ironed out.

Here are the full patch notes, which should take effect next time you boot up your Steam client:

  • Fixed: Occasional crash after Alt-Tab/minimizing or running in a window on certain graphics hardware
  • Fixed: Crashes and/or graphical glitches after changing video settings without exiting game
  • Fixed: Player stuck at the beginning of Chapter 6
  • Fixed: Crash attempting to use other weapons (e.g. mods) with Portal 2
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor doesn't highlight UI elements in game on Mac OSX
  • Fixed: Numerous localization bugs and improvements (also added Czech and Turkish localized text)
  • Fixed: Overflow bug in keyvalues
  • Fixed: Voice functionality regression (voice again enabled by default)
  • Fixed: Joystick now defaults to off in order to avoid issues with non-joystick hardware that registers itself as a joystick
  • Fixed: French sentences are not wrapping correctly in subtitles and commentary
  • Improved: Handling of Mac OSX crashes
  • Improved: Updates and bug fixes to Robot Enrichment
  • Improved: Reliability on unsupported Intel Mobile Series 4 Express chipsets
  • Removed: Unsupported console commands ("retry", "switch_teams") that caused problems if used
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Comments (11) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • LazyDan #1 1 year ago

    Download a patch? But what if I don't have any....



    spppppaaaaccccceeee

    brb, gotta go to space

  • darkmorgado #2 1 year ago

    You might want to spoiler that.

  • StooMonster #3 1 year ago

    So good that I'm going to play through it again ... And in an age where there's little enough time to play through most games once, this speaks volumes about the quality. Genius.

  • Vixremento #4 1 year ago

    I didn't experience any problems in playing through it (twice) though...seems like more to do with Macs and older hardware. Ok there was one problem...I enjoyed it too much and it felt too short (especially after completing the second play through). On the plus side that up and coming DLC should hope to fuel my thirst for more.

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  • smelly #6 1 year ago

    It seemed to crash for me a LOT around areas where there was lots of paint on the screen.

    But cant complain - reboots helped lengthen the game.

  • PixelPirate #7 1 year ago

    PS3 patch please?

    negged for wanting a patch? Mental.

    Especially since i am stuck on a game breaking bug, but whatever.
    Edited by PixelPirate at 03/05/11 @ 13:01

  • sir_tripod #8 1 year ago

    Yes, rush the PS3 patch out.

    Question: how will you download it?

    As far as the actual game goes, I completed the single-player yesterday. I didn't get any problems and enjoyed just about every minute of it. I really enjoy those stomach-wrenching leaps from really high up to then fire across a big gap. You know you're getting blasé when you wait until the last second to fire the entry portal. :)
    Edited by sir_tripod at 03/05/11 @ 10:56

  • Toothball #9 1 year ago

    @sir_tripod

    From what I gather the Update service is separate from PSN, and so has been running throughout the whole escapade. Not sure whether it's available for individual games specifically as I don't have a PS3, but other people have been reporting game updates getting through since it doesn't update until you've signed out of PSN anyway.

    Not sure whether they had planed to update this one via the regular update or through Steamworks though. Presumably if it were through Steamworks it seems to rely on PSN to get the two connected, so in that case your point stands.

  • PixelPirate #10 1 year ago

    Yes, rush the PS3 patch out.

    Question: how will you download it?

    patches dont use the psn service, mr sarcastic.

  • Neil__ #11 1 year ago

    @darkmorgado
    But nobody would have known it was a spoiler until you pointed it out.