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Portal-Unleashed

Posted on 11.10.2007 at 01:27 in PC by Gabriel

I’m sure most of you have heard about this and are eager to get your hands on this new Valve creation, and now thanks to UNLEASHED you can finally play Portal. Portal is basically a game where the environments are full of Portals which allow you to travel to different areas to solve various puzzles and objectives. It’s been developed by Valve so expect beautiful graphics (since it uses Valve’s game engine) similar to those of Half Life 2. The game isn’t that big coming in at 2.38 GB so it won’t take to long to download. I won’t waste anymore time since I want to start playing this game right now ;) . Download and Enjoy :)

Portal is a single-player first-person action/puzzle video game developed by Valve, shipping in a bundle package known as The Orange Box which also includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Team Fortress 2 as well as Half-Life 2 and Episode One. The Orange Box was released for PC and Xbox 360 on October 10, 2007, and will be released for the PlayStation 3 sometime in November. The Windows version of the game is also available for download separately through Steam for $19.95.[2] Portal became available for preloading as part of The Orange Box through Steam on October 2, 2007.

Unleashed just put a fix online, I don’t know what it fixes (the NFO doesnt make things very clear, does it?), but I added it to the bottom of this post. I think you’ll need it – Bram

For the people having problems installing do this: “After you extract go into the portal folder Right click on hl2 icon and create shortcut. Right click on the shortcut u made go to properties on the target line the one that says something like C:\unl-prtl\portal\hl2.exe add -steam -game portal after it. Go back to portal folder and open steamEmu with notepad. Where it says MountCacheManual = 428 .. Change the 428 to 405 and save it. Then open the game it. Worked for me”

If you still can’t get to work just buy Orange Box since it’s well worth the price  :)


Minimum system requirements:

  • OS: Windows 2000/XP SP2/Vista, DirectX 9.0C
  • CPU: Pentium 4 / Athlon 1.7 GHz or higher
  • RAM: 512 MB or higher
  • DVD-ROM or STEAM
  • Sound: DirectX compatible PCI 16-bit sound card

Release name: Portal-UNLEASHED
Size: 1 DVD5, 2.38 GB
Genre: Acion
Protection: Steam
File names: unl-prtl

Reviews, info: Wikipedia, Gamespot, IGN
NFO: Here, Fix
Homepage: Here
Developer, distributor: Valve, EA
Torrent: NewTorrents, Fix

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  1. psylock
    October 18th, 2007 | 03:43

    Tell me before you contact me on AIM– I might not be online.

  2. runico
    October 18th, 2007 | 04:32

    anyone know what the portal rendering depth setting does in the game ?

  3. Sand-damn
    October 18th, 2007 | 13:06

    Hello fellas. I’ve read almost all those posts through and done everything that’s needed, but still i encounter to an error after valve -intro that says something about “Modname: vguimatsurface.dll”. Sorry if i´ve missed something, but any ideas?

  4. feris
    October 18th, 2007 | 13:19

    i got portal to work, but at the start when the portal opens, i crash every time i go thru it or look at it. help please

  5. psylock
    October 18th, 2007 | 15:03

    Sand-damn,

    Your problem I believe is in the portal/bin folder, which is the container of the files that you see in the game. That one, I believe is the main ground or something.

    Try to re-extract the file and replace it or re-download the game from the link I posted earlier– works for me. Make sure to follow the steps I put up earlier.

    —————————————————————

    Feris,

    Try to put the graphics quality on low, or put on those target add-ons after the quotes on your shortcut:

    -steam -game portal -window -dxlevel 81 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 -dev

    -window runs the game in a window
    -dxlevel 81 makes the game run better on old graphics cards.
    I have ATI RADEON X200 series card (bad), and it still runs fine on mine.
    -The other ones are just to help “force” the game to work.

    ——————————————————————

    ALWAYS make sure to read my instructions that I posted earlier before asking any questions.

    To find fast: Type Ctrl+F, the find: Psylock

  6. Sand-damn
    October 18th, 2007 | 15:15

    Alright, i got it working before reading your aswer with a simple reboot. *Shrug*, dunno what was with it, then. Thanks for your reply anyway, and good that you´re here helping us stupid people, heh.

  7. feris
    October 18th, 2007 | 17:28

    thanks psylock,

    but the game just exits itself after i look or go through the portal, i tried noclipping my way thru the wall and still crashed. is there any way to fix this? thanks again

  8. h0l0cau5to
    October 18th, 2007 | 18:23

    to comment nº 173- Leek

    if you had/have steam installed you have to errase all registries of it or else the game will fail…

  9. Leek
    October 18th, 2007 | 19:20

    @209 h0l0cau5to

    I have not erased any registries and I got the game to work. I unrar the files on my desktop directory. I’m not sure how i got it working. I updated my video card (Radeon 9800 sec pro) and I changed the steamemu address to where to GCF files are. So it will be:
    [Options]
    SteamAppsDir = C:\Documents and Settings\jojo\Desktop\Portal-Unleashed\unl-prtl\
    ; Used if UseCacheFileSystem = True

    (make sure you add the \ ) at the end of the address typed

    And I changed the MountCacheManual to 405.

    Of course I also made the shortcut and added the extra -steam -game portal (check to see if the details in shortcut are really changed… I had to do it again because for some reason the added details did not save the first time)

    BTW: I have steam installed and I did not touch ANY files of it, including registries. Also just turn off your firewall, this may not be the problem but it may prevent other annoyances from happening.

  10. runico
    October 18th, 2007 | 19:20

    thats not true..you DO NOT HAVE TO ERASE STEAM or delete steam or any registry entries to get it to work you have to #1 unpack from the .rar not the numbered rars….#2 leave .gcf files where they get deposited in the unpacking i.e dont move them to another folder…and edit the steamemu .ini file as explained you dont even need the fix if you follow the instructions posted for editing the .ini also make sure to add in the steamemu.ini the following SteamAppsDir= C:\portal thats it just replace what i have as an example with your drive and just the initial folder that you unpacked everything to…hope this helps….also make sure to create the shortcut as explained in the nfo

  11. h0l0cau5to
    October 18th, 2007 | 19:52

    well, you got lucky i had to errase the registry file for steam

  12. feris
    October 18th, 2007 | 21:13

    could anyone help me? every time i go through a portal or look at it, my game will exit to the desktop with an error report. is there any way to fix this?

  13. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 00:27

    What does the error say?

  14. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 00:28

    What does the error box say?

  15. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 00:30

    sorry for double post, server lag.

  16. Hypercon
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:21

    I too have the hl2.exe error after exiting the first portal in the game. As long as I am in the beginning room, I can pick up anything, throw it around, have the time of my life, but as soon as I go through the portal, the game locks up and I get the hl2.exe error. I have 512 memory–time to upgrade?–or is this something else?

  17. Nathanmini
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:30

    I’m also trying to get this thing to work :( it keeps crashing on the main menu, sometimes the menu appears and sometimes it does not, sometimes my computer restarts and sometimes it all just completely locks up.

    i think i meet the system requirements but heres wot i got anyways

    Pentium 4 3.06ghz processor
    1gb ram
    80gb hard drive
    ati radeon x300 graphics card

    I’ve tried running the game in different compatibility modes and screen resolutions but nothing :( any help would be appreciated.

  18. ap
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:34

    “I too have the hl2.exe error after exiting the first portal in the game. As long as I am in the beginning room, I can pick up anything, throw it around, have the time of my life, but as soon as I go through the portal, the game locks up and I get the hl2.exe error. I have 512 memory–time to upgrade?–or is this something else?”

    I have the same problem as Hypercon, I couldn’t even get to the menu until I changed the options to

    +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1

    I can get to the first room but if I try to go through the first portal it crashes. I have XP.

    I have tried the startup options aboe with -dxlevel 70/80/81 and 90. And changing the portal options in the menu, but no luck.

  19. ap
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:35

    When it crashes it does the ‘hl2.exe has stopped working’ message.

  20. Hypercon
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:40

    AP – sounds like the problem we have is exactly the same. I purchased The Orange Box and HL2 works but Team Fortress 2 and Portal don’t.

  21. ap
    October 19th, 2007 | 03:56

    Hypercon,

    Do you have the integrated Intel graphics engine too? I have 2 gb of RAM so I know that’s not the issue.

    If you don’t know go to the start menu, go to run, and type in ‘dxdiag’ without quotes. Tell me what it says under the ‘Display’ tab.

    I’ve updated all my drivers–no luck. Even added a “dual processor fix’ that was recommended on steam’s website. Still no luck.

  22. Hypercon
    October 19th, 2007 | 04:01

    Intel express chipset family 82915G/GV/910GL – bad sign?

  23. ap
    October 19th, 2007 | 04:07

    Mine is the Mobile Intel 945G express set. All the reports I’ve been seeing have this set or the 950 or 910. I’ll keep checking back here. Keep looking…

  24. Hypercon
    October 19th, 2007 | 04:12

    Great – I would be one of the lucky few. Trust me, I will keep looking until fixed – currently surfing every board/topic I can find and trying everything. Quite an education so far…

  25. hugoauthen
    October 19th, 2007 | 14:23

    everytime I try to play it I get a bluescreen of death >__>1

  26. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 14:51

    Use the steps I posted earlier. They have worked for other people. They should work for you. And I have probably the worst computer out of all of you.

    Come on people. Read these things before you post. I’ve said this like 16 times now. If you actually READ this page, you wouldn’t be having these problems with it.

    I won’t help anyone anymore unless they say they have read my earlier posts and have had problems after following them.

  27. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 14:52

    If it crashes when you go through the portal try putting -window in the target.

  28. Hypercon
    October 19th, 2007 | 15:04

    Psylock – I definitely have tried all the earlier suggestions, so many times, in so many different combinations. It still doesn’t work.

  29. Fajita
    October 19th, 2007 | 17:06

    i was just wondering…
    if…
    the files on here are under xp ,or vista, would it only work for one?,cause i got xp,and it hasn’t worked yet…can that be y?

  30. Fajita
    October 19th, 2007 | 17:06

    i was just wondering…you know
    if…
    the files on here are under xp ,or vista, would it only work for one?,cause i got xp,and it hasn’t worked yet…can that be y?

  31. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 20:03

    I have xp and it works fine. Read my earlier posts.

  32. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 20:05

    I have written instructions on how to get it to work. Read those. I’m getting tired of people not reading my posts.

  33. Rampalamp
    October 19th, 2007 | 20:58

    Psylock i have tryed everything you said, with the dxdiag and all, tryed moving it around, tryed the original folder to where it all unrared too, i have downloaded it twice now, both times unzipped the .rar made sure it wasnt .00 or anything, and ive got the fix, i put the steamappdir thingy set to where my .gcf and steamemu are right now, and after doing that i managed to get ti to start, but when it gets to the screen where it is loading and is all blury, the loading thing is in the corner, i can a error sound and i have to alt f4 it to get out and dont get a chance to read the error, so it crashed right after the intro screen.. i have tryed everything my computer is new and up to date, have latest version of direct x… i need help. have been trying to fix this forever and nothing ever works for me.. dont know why…

  34. Rampalamp
    October 19th, 2007 | 21:20

    The instruction at “0×00000009″ referenced memory at “0×0000009″. The memory could not be “read”. thats the error that pops up when i try to run it just in windows, im assuming its the same one when not in window mode

  35. Rampalamp
    October 19th, 2007 | 21:25

    wow a simple reboot did the trick…. amazing…i suggest all try it >.>

  36. At-a-boy
    October 19th, 2007 | 21:45

    This is a DirectX problem. The only way I can get past the hl2.exe loading crash is to run -dxlevel 80 in the launch property window. I am an XP Media Center user with integrated Intel Video. My other computer also runs XP but uses an older video card – it mostly runs Team Fortress 2 fine with only minor problems.

  37. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 22:25

    Is it possible to make my instructions that I placed stickied at the top of the page?

  38. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 22:26

    All these problems you guys are solving I have already solved about a week ago and posted here.

  39. Dudicon
    October 19th, 2007 | 22:46

    I’m having the exact same problem as feris, ap, and others. The game loads fine, everything seems to be working great, but then as soon as I step through the portal in the first room, it freezes and crashes. Any ideas?

  40. Dudicon
    October 19th, 2007 | 22:54

    To elaborate, I’ve tried everything in here so far, I have the updated .ini, and the shortcut with just about every command line addition mentioned. In addition, I’ve tried setting all the graphics settings to the lowest quality, set portal depth to 0, played in windowed mode, and still it crashes when I get close to or go through the portal. I’m on XP and have integrated Intel video.

  41. psylock
    October 19th, 2007 | 23:07

    Your computer doesn’t sound so good.

  42. ap
    October 20th, 2007 | 00:38

    psylock “Your computer doesn’t sound so good.”

    Well thanks for the helpful tip, dude.

  43. Hypercon
    October 20th, 2007 | 00:44

    Tried a ton of things today again but still nothing. Started looking at new computers though…I hate my Intel chipset right now, but I’m not sure if it deserves the blame or not. I wonder is anyone running Portal using it??

  44. psylock
    October 20th, 2007 | 04:17

    I have one of the oldest ATI radeon cards ever released. The x200. If you have anything older than that, don’t even attempt to run this game. It runs slower than half life 2.

  45. Ellimist
    October 20th, 2007 | 05:50

    psylock – your advice is appreciated and I am sure it helps the people it applies to, as long as they read it.

    However, it seems that people with integrated Intel video cards cannot run Steam games very well.

    I have the Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset. Even when I run Half-Life 2 (which I bought when it came out – it worked on my computer at the time – I had not tried to play it on this one until today), Steam tells me that they do not have my video card in their database.

    Therefore, even after using all the fixes and different suggestions, I managed to change Portal from not even loading, to getting to a portal opening. However, no matter what I do, it continues to crash when a portal opens, that is, at the beginning of the game.

    So, I will continue to try to figure out the issue and fix it.

  46. hugoauthen
    October 20th, 2007 | 10:34

    the game runs perfectly,
    I merely added the fix, and it works just fine,

    I have ati mobility radeon Xpress 200 series,

    but. I think my computer has a problem.

    whenever I play the game, I get a bluescreen.

    has that happened to anyone else?

  47. hugoauthen
    October 20th, 2007 | 10:44

    thank you, and sorry. it seems I no longer have the bsod problem

  48. bo_3li
    October 20th, 2007 | 13:46

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  49. psylock
    October 20th, 2007 | 14:44

    I prefer to get the video at stage 6.

  50. asle
    October 20th, 2007 | 23:04

    for crashing on startup add -w “1024″ -h “768″ on the command line

  51. Fajita
    October 21st, 2007 | 07:05

    sweet,i finally got it workig and i beat it!,it was great,the cakewas delicious!!!now for some unreal!!!

  52. djwhack
    October 21st, 2007 | 16:53

    I’m in the same boat as you Ellimist. Whenever I go through the first portal that the game makes, the program crashes. Have you figured out how to fix that yet?

  53. Ellimist
    October 21st, 2007 | 17:54

    djwhack – I am sorry to say I have not.

    I could be wrong, but I think the only solution will be either getting a new video card (really hard to do with a laptop), or make Steam fix Portal and HL2 so that they work on integrated intel chips.

    However, I could not stand not playing it anymore, so I borrowed a friend’s computer last night and spent four hours playing it. So I, unfortunately, would suggest doing that because I do not see the Intel problem getting fixed soon.

    It’s worth it.

  54. djwhack
    October 21st, 2007 | 19:20

    So nobody with an Intel graphics chip has been able to make this game work? I was able to make the original HL2 work, so I don’t see why this shouldn’t work.

  55. helmhead
    October 21st, 2007 | 23:57

    This board was extremely helpful in giving me the help I needed to run this game. I just wanted to say thanks and pass on what I did to get it to work.

    For the record, I’m running an ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress x200. I have no knowledge of whether or not this game will work with an Intel integrated chipset – it doesn’t look like it from the posts on this board. Go to “http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/” to see if they have anything about your chipset. They are sometimes slow to update which games they support, but HL2 may be on there already.

    First off, I unrared from .00 as opposed to .rar, and I moved the “portal” directory into “C:\Program Files\Portal”. I then created a shortcut of hl2.exe and added “-steam -game portal” (no quotes) after hl2.exe in the target field of the shortcut. I got an “AppFileSystem” error and other errors that said something about “Mount” which I didn’t understand.

    Then I started tweaking things to figure this out. First, do as others have said and go into the Steamemu.ini and make the 428 to 405 change mentioned above.

    Then, take your “Portal” directory (with the lowercase “portal” inside it) and move it directly to the C: drive, resulting in the path “C:\Portal\portal”. This did wonders for me and I was finally able to get to the menu screen!

    The game would run just fine, but after a few minutes of gameplay I would get a version of a blue screen of death that would flicker blue with some characters, then restart my computer. Totally unacceptable. However, it smelled like a graphics problem…

    Make the appropriate DirectX tweaks to the target line in the shortcut (right after the “-steam -game portal” [no quotes]). These are also mentioned above. I tried “-dxlevel 70″ (no quotes) which didn’t work (odd, because I had to switch to DX7 to run CoD2), but I then tried “-dxlevel 80″ (no quotes) and it worked like a champ.

    The majority of the posts on here sound like they’re graphics related. This may be because you’re using a non-supported graphics chipset, but if you play around with the settings enough you’re bound to figure something out.

    The big problem now is the bonus levels. Like others on here, my game also crashes after I complete the levels (not a blue screen of death error, just a “hl2.exe has encountered an error and must be..” error) – hopefully a fix is forthcoming!

    Thanks again for all the help – hopefully this will help some of you!

  56. Laez
    October 22nd, 2007 | 01:23

    I have the same intel chipset. Have someone tried to use 3d analyze to make portal work? it helped me in many games, i’m just downloading this game and relly want to play.

  57. n00b
    October 22nd, 2007 | 01:46

    If u run Vista, you will have to run hl2.exe in Windows XP compatibility mode ;)

  58. hugoauthen
    October 22nd, 2007 | 06:45

    hehe. it is something graphic related.

    what I added was -steam -game portal -dxlevel 81 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 -dev

    and that worked wonders, adding -window could also help (opening it in a window)

    the bonus levels took nearly no time to load. but when I fell to the “water” in one of the bonus levels. I got the flickering bluescreen

  59. Ellimist
    October 22nd, 2007 | 08:07

    Okay, I guess maybe I should clarify…

    With these Intel chipsets (mine at least), I can run HL2 until it starts to load the next part of the first level (in the containment area), then it crashes. Same with Portal – runs until I go near/through the first Portal.

    None of these fixes work for these Intel chipsets. They seem to work on ATI and other brands just fine – probably because they are actually supported by Steam.

  60. .asdf.
    October 23rd, 2007 | 00:20

    Ellimist: I have the same problem as you. I have an Intel 945GM and Portal crashes after I walk through the first portal into the next room. However, after much searching on the internet, I’ve found a way to get HL2 to work. Add the following to launch options:
    +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0
    Worked perfectly for HL2, but still no luck with portal. :(

    P.S. I bought a new video card for my desktop just to play this game, and it owns! Best game I’ve seen in quite a while.

  61. crack
    October 23rd, 2007 | 15:59

    is there a crack or anything for portal?
    for me it doesn`t work with that fix, i tryed all the fix i read…
    plz tell me

  62. Zpawn
    October 25th, 2007 | 21:39

    I love you “helmhead” Everything you said worked, i don´t know why but it works, tanx a million.

  63. Dustin
    October 26th, 2007 | 06:52

    Please help…I have tried to do everything that is every one of these post. The game crashes while I am in the “loading” screen. Here are my specs:

    Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S$
    AMD Athlon X2 4600+
    Corsair XMS2 2Gb DDR2 800
    (2)BFG 7800GT OC in SLI
    Windows Vista Ultimate..(I have tried the compatibilty option)

  64. scruffy32
    October 27th, 2007 | 02:38

    I have Vista 32 bit. Hated to mess with the install of Portal. Went through the whole file errors and the such. Copied the GameInfo.txt file to the hl2 directory. Used the fix(that just changes 428 to 405). Changed the Shortcut to Windows Xp Compatibility. Still no help. Then once shortcut target reads “…\portal\hl2.exe” -steam -game portal(Note where the “” are). Finally SUCCESS!!! And now that I went through all this poo I don’t even wanna play. Thanks pirated software for ruining my gaming experience

  65. Aghad
    October 28th, 2007 | 00:58

    In the first room, before you go through the first portal, on an intel chipset in the top right corner of the screen there is a statement saying “Server stuck on object 0/testchmb_a_00″ I don’t know if that will help anyone figure out what the problem is, or even if it’s normal for other graphics chip, but it exists. Also, the program doesn’t crash as you go through the portal, it crashes when you look to the left on the other side of the portal. Go through backwards and you’ll see what I mean.

  66. Ali
    October 28th, 2007 | 03:29

    I added -steam -game portal -dxlevel 81 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 -dev
    the game starts up normally, gets to the main screen, and it opens up the chapters, but then when i click on start new game, it goes back to the main screen, any help?

  67. cuinasec
    October 28th, 2007 | 03:39

    i need help and i did exactly what u guys have stated above. i added the fix in, i created the shortcut and did what i was supposed to. but even with all that nothing starts up. i dont get a menu or anything. wats wrong? i also did wat psy said and turned my sound acc to none and tried and that didnt help.

  68. Aghad
    October 28th, 2007 | 05:29

    I made it through the first level on an Intel chip by only looking at the floor. Unfortunately, it still crashed once I got in the elevator thingy.

  69. Dark Angel
    October 28th, 2007 | 12:33

    This is to the idiot at posting 178, 179, and 180 who claims that we all can tell he is a black man based on his posting… and calling everyone a racist jerk for not replying… WHAT A FREAKIN DUMBASS!!!

  70. Portal Complete
    October 28th, 2007 | 12:35

    Really dude… how can anyone here tell if you are black, white, red or just plain stupid based on your posting? Either grow up or get some brains.

  71. .asdf.
    October 29th, 2007 | 03:21

    To all of those running on an Intel chipset, I have added the following to the command line launch options and got it to some extent playable:
    -dxlevel 80 +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1 +mat_softwarelighting 1 +mat_max_worldmesh_verticies 1024 +mat_reducefillrate 1

    I managed to get to level 16, however it BSOD’d twice at some points in the game. This is still the closest I’ve seen anyone get to being able to play it normally.

  72. mustibabu
    October 29th, 2007 | 11:11

    Thanks .asdf.

    Your advice worked exactly as u said, however, mine BSOD’d within seconds of entering the next room via the very first portal. This was the first time I could see the portal (leave alone passing through it) without the game crashing.

    I’m gonna try one more time to see if it lasts longer like u said, until level 16 or more.

    Thanks again for the valuable tweak!

    Let it be known to those for whom the game crahes immediately after the first portal opens up, updating to the latest DirectX 9 does not help. You still gotta wait for someone like .asdf. to come up with advanced tweaks to ultimately play this wihtout any issues.

  73. evilthrasher
    October 29th, 2007 | 23:53

    i am having problems with directx. whenever i start the game it says i need the minimum requirement of directx 8.0. so i went and downloaded directx 9.0 from the link above by paste and it still says i need directx 8.0. help plz

  74. Walter
    November 1st, 2007 | 07:45

    for the mountapp failed problems, change the steam emu file
    the line MountCacheManual = 428
    to MountCacheManual = 407

    try something different if you get kicked out of the game 10 seconds after. I had the problem at 405, then I changed to 407 it worked….no idea why

  75. RoryC
    November 3rd, 2007 | 07:42

    Hi guys, I bet loads of you have been suffering with the same problem i had. You load portal and it crashes before you even get to the menu stating “hl2 has stopped working”, well after being extremely ****************** at valve and the fact the forums fixes didnt help, I finally got hold of a Fix from friend.

    Go to your hl2 file in your portal folder and right click it and create a shortcut, then drag the shortcut to the desktop.

    Right click the shortcut, and click properties. Then in target in should be locating the hl2 file,

    example of mine:
    “C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\(my-account)\portal\hl2.exe”

    all you need to do is change the ending so it should look like this

    “C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\(my-account)\portal\hl2.exe” -game portal -window -dxlevel 90+ +mat_forcehardwaresync 0

    essential you just need to copy n paste this… -game portal -window -dxlevel 90+ +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 ..and add it to the end.

    Then launch the shortcut, it will load in windowed mode, but you can put it back to fullscreen in options.

    I hope it works for the rest of you, cause i been there, and portal has a wicked ending. so enjoy.

  76. ShredZ
    November 3rd, 2007 | 18:23

    I figured out my error! problem by myself… sad:

    when i unrared the main file, i simply copied over the ep2 folder to my games folder, completely missing all the massive files in the unl-ep2 folder. once i brought those over to their new home everything worked.

  77. Hugo the BEAR
    November 3rd, 2007 | 20:15

    I unpack sim files from “Orange Box retail DVD1/2″ and than
    I atempt to run the games but they don’t run …. how to bypass steam .. with SteamEmu .. or anything ..?

  78. asforoneday
    November 10th, 2007 | 18:15

    I’m having the same problem as 274. Says I need DirectX 8.0 but I already installed DirectX 9.0 so it’s weird.

  79. asforoneday
    November 10th, 2007 | 18:30

    Okay it’s probably because of this:
    http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=773

    Is there a way to “trick” Portal into thinking I have Pixel Shader 3.0?

  80. RoEm
    November 12th, 2007 | 12:29

    it doesn’t let me add the -steam -game portal
    to the shortcut I created on hl2…
    what should I do?

  81. Tosheros
    November 13th, 2007 | 16:36

    I did everything but it is not Portal I get, it is one of the Half-Life 2 things, (don’t know if it is the original game or one of the two episodes) and even that I can’t play it…

  82. Tosheros
    November 13th, 2007 | 19:00

    Now what? -_-’

    I just fixed the shortcut and now it works… almost.

    The game crash every time I see a Portal… I am still blocked in the room…

  83. Maynard
    November 13th, 2007 | 19:59

    @ RoEm: Right click the desktop shortcut and click ‘Properties’ > ‘General’ tab. At the bottom next to ‘Attributes’ untick the ‘Read-only’ box. Click ‘Apply’. You should now be able to add the parameters -steam -game portal

    @ Tosheros: Before starting a new game, launch Portal and go to ‘Options’ > ‘Portal’ tab and set the ‘Portal render depth’ to ‘0′. You will not be able to see through the Portals with this setting but perhaps it will stop your crashes. Good luck.

    To anyone that may try adding the ‘-dxlevel 90′ parameter as suggested above, this can severly cripple your game if you do not meet requirements for this. If you have experienced problems after adding this parameter, simply change it to ‘-dxlevel 80′ (without quotes) and click apply.

  84. Nukem
    November 22nd, 2007 | 03:17

    There seems to be a Dopeman rip of Portal, only 583MB (no developer comments vid apparently)

    http://www.mininova.org/tor/953545

    Anyone tried this successfully?

  85. Chaosdagger
    November 25th, 2007 | 08:40

    It won’t let me add -steam -game portal to the end of the target line. Tells me the target is invalid…..

  86. Chaosdagger
    November 25th, 2007 | 08:42

    OH never mind I didn’t see the post already answering that question I’m sorry!

  87. Chaosdagger
    November 25th, 2007 | 08:47

    OK never mind again! *sigh* The Read-only portion is unchecked but everytime I try to add that -steam -game portal to the end of it it keeps telling me “the name specified in the target box is not valid” what can I do?! Am I doomed?!

  88. Chaosdagger
    November 25th, 2007 | 15:57

    Never mind.. again again. I got it working well the shortcut anyway gonna try the game now

  89. thanks gabriel
    December 1st, 2007 | 13:55

    just wanted to post a thanks to gabriel for posting this and then adding how to get this to work i downloaded this about 3 weeks ago but couldnt get it working because of the shat instructions… cheers im gonna play now take care rsl friends

  90. Does it work?
    December 6th, 2007 | 02:19

    Nukem:
    There seems to be a Dopeman rip of Portal, only 583MB (no developer comments vid apparently)

    http://www.mininova.org/tor/953545

    Anyone tried this successfully?
    ———————————————–

    Does anyone know if this actually works yet ??

  91. Storm
    December 13th, 2007 | 22:15

    is they any way that the parameter “+mat_forcehardwaresync 0″ can be added, this fix is the only way to play valve games for me?

    plz email @ stormeyjones@yahoo.com

  92. Storm
    December 13th, 2007 | 23:23

    nevermind got that part… now… crashes after entering first portal. set dx level to 8 and 9, does nothing tried all graphics options and portal render depth to 0 and still it crashes. All internets awarded to he who finds out what the hell to do.

    plz email at stormeyjones@yahoo.com

  93. aszti
    December 24th, 2007 | 17:43

    Hy. I have this game, but I changed the screen resolution, and since then the game don’t start, even if I delete and intall the whole game again. Can anyone help me, please??

    thx, asti

  94. ero-baka
    December 26th, 2007 | 23:25

    h0l0cau5to, you should try to upgrade your graphic crad’s driver ^^

  95. AaRoZ
    January 3rd, 2008 | 14:15

    This game is great!!!!!

  96. Damian
    January 14th, 2008 | 20:04

    You guys i’ve been looking for the solution of my problems to play Portal for a WEEK, i’ve downloaded several times the whole torrent with 24 zipped files and i’ve had MountAppSystem Failed error over and over again.

    I’ve already have:
    -Made the Shortcut properly
    -Changed the MountCacheManual number
    -Downloaded the Steamemu.ini fix about three times. None changed the error.
    -Made a C:\Portal folder with the folder of the .rar with no numbers inside C:\Portal\portal
    -Downloaded the newest DirectX
    -Left the .gcf files in the Portal-Unleashed torrent folder

    Still i don’t know what to do to handle this error…help pls?

  97. Damian
    January 14th, 2008 | 20:06

    I’m sorry for the doubleposting but i have also changed the SteamAppsDir address several times

  98. noname
    February 7th, 2008 | 17:04

    Anyone can tell me can I play HALF LIFE 2 from this release? I bought this game for MYR 10 in pirated CD shop :P

  99. Clos
    February 19th, 2008 | 08:19

    OOOOOOHHHH! You add -steam -game portal AFTER the quotes. My dumb arse was trying to do it inside the quotes. ah well. Live ‘n learn.

  100. Alex135
    February 28th, 2008 | 01:38

    I have gotten the game working with “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\Portal\hl2.exe” -steam -game portal +mat_forcehardwaresync 0 -dev -window

    However i go through the first portal and the game crashes.
    I would apreciate it if i could get some help with this… i have read all of the posts and nothing has helped with this problem. However i might add that before i read some of these posts the game wouldn’t even start, so i thank you all for that. :)

    Anyway some help would be usefull…

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