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  • Portal (PC Digital Download) $0.99
    • 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.
  • Portal w/ RTX DLC Free
    • Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portalโ„ข reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.
    • The new free DLC, developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios, reimagines Portal's graphics with full ray tracing, new hi-res textures, and new enhanced models. These enhancements improve immersion, graphical realism, and the overall gameplay experience. With the DLC installed, you'll be able to choose when you launch the game whether to play the original Portal or Portal with RTX.
    • If you aren't familiar with ray tracing, it's a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light. When playing a ray-tracing capable game on a compatible GPU, lighting, reflections, and optical effects appear much more realistic. With ray tracing, light can even pass through portals.
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  • Portal [steampowered.com] (PC Digital Download) $9.99 $0.99
    • 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.
  • Free Portal w/ RTX DLC [steampowered.com] Free
    • Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portalโ„ข reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.
    • The new free DLC, developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios, reimagines Portal's graphics with full ray tracing, new hi-res textures, and new enhanced models. These enhancements improve immersion, graphical realism, and the overall gameplay experience. With the DLC installed, you'll be able to choose when you launch the game whether to play the original Portal or Portal with RTX.
    • If you aren't familiar with ray tracing, it's a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light. When playing a ray-tracing capable game on a compatible GPU, lighting, reflections, and optical effects appear much more realistic. With ray tracing, light can even pass through portals.
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wow. i've never played portal and JUST got a new computer yestereday that can actually play games.

can't wait to create a steam backlog that i'll never play!!!!
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Didn't know about the RTX update. Thanks!
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The misuse of the homophones is more of what is bring GPUs to their knees
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ericg12
12-08-2022 at 07:34 PM.
12-08-2022 at 07:34 PM.
The cake is a lie. (Surprised nobody beat me to it..)
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marvelljones
12-08-2022 at 07:48 PM.
12-08-2022 at 07:48 PM.
Quote from imreallythatpoor :
i wonder how this would run if i have a 2060 RTX
Probably choppy as heck, but I'll report back when I get a chance to play using my 2070 Super. I expect it's not going to be great, but I play "old" games usually anyway (not that Portal is exactly new).
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Dealer_Of_Slickness
12-08-2022 at 08:30 PM.
12-08-2022 at 08:30 PM.
Everyone mentioning that it plays okay with upscaling (DLSS). Yeah, try native 4k with rtx turned on and see how it does.
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mctron
12-08-2022 at 09:09 PM.
12-08-2022 at 09:09 PM.
Got suckered into the Portal/Portal 2 bundle for 8 bucks
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marvelljones
12-08-2022 at 09:12 PM.
12-08-2022 at 09:12 PM.
Quote from Dealer_Of_Slickness :
Everyone mentioning that it plays okay with upscaling (DLSS). Yeah, try native 4k with rtx turned on and see how it does.
Unless you're rocking a 4080 why would you?
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MattTheRadarTech
12-08-2022 at 09:26 PM.
12-08-2022 at 09:26 PM.
Quote from mctron :
Got suckered into the Portal/Portal 2 bundle for 8 bucks
I was tempted but realized I missed that same bundle for $1.50 few weeks ago: https://slickdeals.net/f/16221169-pc-digital-downloads-the-orange-box-1-99-or-portal-portal-2-bundle-1-48-more

Next November, I'll be thinking in portals.
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DirkBelig
12-08-2022 at 10:28 PM.
12-08-2022 at 10:28 PM.
I've got a 7-year-old i7-5820K @4.3 GHz/32GB/RTX 3070 Ti rig and at 2560x1440 rez with default RTX Remix settings, I'm getting 30-35 fps in general, but have seen over 40 and chugged down to the 20s momentarily. Oddly, the RTX settings list DLSS3 as being on despite that supposedly being reserved for 40xx series GPUs. It's quite playable and not the slideshow haters are claiming it to be.

Ironically, the GeForce Experience Performance Overlay (i.e. FPS counter) can't show frame rates, but the Steam FPS meter does show. Screenshots with Bandicam only came out as black screens, so not sure what's up with that. Tried taking a shot with the in-game utility and it froze and crashed to a black screen and I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the hl2.exe process in Task Manager.
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damoses1
12-09-2022 at 04:28 AM.
12-09-2022 at 04:28 AM.
I downloaded the Ray Tracing version yesterday. My 3060 Ti at 4K was getting about 17fps with nearly all settings maxed. Dropped to 1440P and I'm getting 35fps. The graphics look slightly better but the slow jerky fps kills it. I'll see if dropping to 1080p gets me above 60fps. Probably won't lose much detail considering this game was built to run on 720P back in 2007.
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RiskyxBizniz
12-09-2022 at 05:59 AM.
12-09-2022 at 05:59 AM.
Starting this up without tuning any settings - my 3080ti was getting about (a choppy) 40 fps on 3440x1440. Everything looked beautiful but moving around at all kinda ruined that.

But if you hit Alt + X at the menu screen, toggle DLSS over to custom and set it to Performance mode, it was running flawlessly and still looked great. Yes I know, it's "faking" it, but I loved it anyway.
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12-09-2022 at 08:12 AM.
12-09-2022 at 08:12 AM.
Quote from DirkBelig :
Ironically, the GeForce Experience Performance Overlay (i.e. FPS counter) can't show frame rates, but the Steam FPS meter does show. Screenshots with Bandicam only came out as black screens, so not sure what's up with that. Tried taking a shot with the in-game utility and it froze and crashed to a black screen and I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the hl2.exe process in Task Manager.
Not sure if it's related, but the Portal game itself (and I think anything that runs on top of Source really) runs a bit... odd. If you open up Task Manager, you'll see that Steam is actually running Portal through a hl2.exe... and my Discord shows I'm playing Garry's Mod lol My understanding is that you are not actually running Portal.exe in the traditional sense, but rather a sort of "modded" version of the game's Source engine. So I think that some overlays / integrations don't pick up on this pipeline and can't measure certain metrics.
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WickaFlicka
12-09-2022 at 08:37 AM.
12-09-2022 at 08:37 AM.
Will this play fine on the Steam Deck?
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12-09-2022 at 08:45 AM.
12-09-2022 at 08:45 AM.
Such a great game! I still go in and play the whole game or, at min, community maps, every once in a while... Still well worth more than $1 IMO.
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12-09-2022 at 10:33 AM.
12-09-2022 at 10:33 AM.
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Where is portal VR? Maybe too much motion sickness
It's called half life alex
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It's called half life alex
You don't know HL2 VR?
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12-09-2022 at 08:27 PM.
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Quote from damoses1 :
I downloaded the Ray Tracing version yesterday. My 3060 Ti at 4K was getting about 17fps with nearly all settings maxed. Dropped to 1440P and I'm getting 35fps. The graphics look slightly better but the slow jerky fps kills it. I'll see if dropping to 1080p gets me above 60fps. Probably won't lose much detail considering this game was built to run on 720P back in 2007.
Need 3080 to do 60fps on 1080p
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