Pleasantly surprised by performance of my MBP's 8600M GT
My MacBookPro's a late '07 model, but still runs Portal quick enough. Only downside is the portals themselves are 'black' and don't show what's on the other side of them. Ah well, any excuse to upgrade...! It works a treat on my iMac, well, I started playing it a few months back via Bootcamp.
Oh and I TOTALLY agree with Spiceware - if you haven't played it, don't google ahead for spoilers! :) They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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That's a recently introduced bug
when I ran it this evening it downloaded an auto-update and the Portals turned black. They were fine before the update.
There's a topic about it at Valve's forum: http://forums.steamp...ead.php?t=1265578 rbarris on page 2 has this to say We saw this bug and thought we had it fixed. One thing that affected this bug's behavior in our sleuthing was whether or not the game started up in windowed mode. the -windowed trick worked for me. On page 7 alfred posted We have a fix for the black portal issue in testing, we hope to have it out real soon. |
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Yay, thanks!
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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Played it last night and it looks like they fixed it.
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Portal free for Mac & PC (until May 24th)
- (SpiceWare)
- (35)
- May 12, 2010, 03:47:21 PM EDT
Go figure....
- (mvitale)
- May 12, 2010, 10:45:45 PM EDT
OMG
- (Bman)
- May 13, 2010, 12:32:11 AM EDT
DAM YOU..
- (Bman)
- (3)
- May 13, 2010, 03:04:29 AM EDT
The boy showed be the demo a couple of years ago
- (crazy)
- (1)
- May 13, 2010, 07:55:45 AM EDT
I was surprised I didn't get sick
- (SpiceWare)
- May 13, 2010, 11:55:59 AM EDT
don't worry - it's a very short game
- (SpiceWare)
- May 13, 2010, 11:51:34 AM EDT
2 hours in
- (Bman)
- (1)
- May 13, 2010, 12:31:55 PM EDT
Don't go looking at the Indie Pack, then.
- (pwhysall)
- May 13, 2010, 02:32:22 PM EDT
D'you think they'll have the Linux client ready before then?
- (static)
- May 13, 2010, 07:23:44 PM EDT
STILL PLAYING
-NT
- (Bman)
- May 14, 2010, 01:15:26 AM EDT
*grumble*
- (malraux)
- (13)
- May 14, 2010, 09:19:48 AM EDT
sux2bu
- (mvitale)
- (1)
- May 14, 2010, 09:41:19 AM EDT
Innit just.
- (pwhysall)
- May 14, 2010, 12:29:13 PM EDT
Re: *grumble*Its what you get for buying...
- (folkert)
- May 14, 2010, 11:47:25 AM EDT
Why $300?
- (SpiceWare)
- (6)
- May 14, 2010, 12:32:53 PM EDT
I have a 7800
- (malraux)
- (5)
- May 14, 2010, 02:23:06 PM EDT
Gotcha
- (SpiceWare)
- (4)
- May 14, 2010, 02:53:50 PM EDT
Pleasantly surprised by performance of my MBP's 8600M GT
- (Meerkat)
- (3)
- May 14, 2010, 09:12:39 PM EDT
That's a recently introduced bug
- (SpiceWare)
- (2)
- May 14, 2010, 10:07:20 PM EDT
Yay, thanks!
-NT
- (Meerkat)
- (1)
- May 14, 2010, 10:32:01 PM EDT
Played it last night and it looks like they fixed it.
-NT
- (SpiceWare)
- May 18, 2010, 02:18:47 PM EDT
About these new exotic video specs
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- May 15, 2010, 09:40:07 PM EDT
I believe the latest buzzwords are related to "physics".
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- May 15, 2010, 10:15:45 PM EDT
Thanks, most illuminating
- (Ashton)
- May 16, 2010, 01:02:31 AM EDT
Only 10 Hours
- (Bman)
- (1)
- May 15, 2010, 03:18:48 AM EDT
see, short game :)
- (SpiceWare)
- May 18, 2010, 02:27:05 PM EDT
Played thru with the commentary
- (SpiceWare)
- (3)
- May 20, 2010, 04:05:49 PM EDT
I've managed to get myself addicted to Torchlight.
- (Meerkat)
- (2)
- May 21, 2010, 08:26:26 AM EDT
I'll check it out, thanks!
-NT
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- May 21, 2010, 10:26:11 AM EDT
I have to second Peter's rec of Osmos
- (malraux)
- May 21, 2010, 06:24:36 PM EDT
Totally missed this trailer
- (SpiceWare)
- (4)
- May 25, 2010, 02:54:03 PM EDT
Machinarium is good too
- (malraux)
- (3)
- May 25, 2010, 03:24:16 PM EDT
I did
- (SpiceWare)
- (1)
- May 25, 2010, 03:42:32 PM EDT
Steam is dodgy.
- (malraux)
- May 25, 2010, 04:14:52 PM EDT
it's on sale
- (SpiceWare)
- June 24, 2010, 06:43:25 PM EDT