Portal 2 PC Patch Is Live Via Steam
A new patch has just rolled out for the PC version of Portal 2 on Steam. Of course the most sophisticated artificial killing machines can have a couple of tweaks here and there. The PC version of Portal 2 had some small anomalies, but thanks to the patch it is running at optimal capacity once again. Once you log into the game via Steam, the update should start downloading automatically.
Here’s a breakdown of the fixes in the patch:
- 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
I am totally glad they fixed the Alt+Tab issue. I like to listen to music while I play sometimes, and it killed me when the game would crash every time I wanted to change my playlist up a bit. A lot of random glitches were fixed too, making the game a lot more friendly to play. Now it’s time to head back to an even more improved Aperture Labs.
