Portal

[Noobta]

Everytime I try to open the game, it crashes and says I need atleast Directx 8. I have Directx 10 so..

[Bartylby]

do you have an old video card?

it could mean that your card doesn't support 8 if it's old enough

[Izzy]

Everytime I try to open the game, it crashes and says I need atleast Directx 8. I have Directx 10 so..

Sounds like you have an ATI AGP card, go downgrade your drivers to catalyst 7.6.

If you don't have an ATI AGP card...i'm sorry Q_Q

[miokomioko]

I was trying some challenges earlier and I think I broke the game. In the first level with the turrets (16?), I shot a portal under the huge pile of boxes in that room with the box dispenser malfunctioning in the ceiling. After that, all the physics in the game were busted. Items would never roll or rotate, they would stay in the position they were dropped, and slide, float, bounce lightly around while going through walls and shit. This was funny at the time, especially for the turret level where I could pick them up and let them float away through the walls. Then the next level had the companion box, which proceeded to bounce away and through the walls upon being released from the dispenser. Even after loading new games it was still broken. I haven't reloaded the game from Steam since so I am hoping it will be fixed next time I play, trying to go for the Camera Shy achievement.

p.s. Why doesn't the Steam ID show my achievements for games other than Team Fortress? ;[

[~O> Good Rats <O~]

thanx for the info on the cards you guys use for it.

a few days ago i ordered a EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS 512 gddr3, so it should run great on that :D

i was gonna go for a 8800, but I thinki heard someone say the 9 series would be released soon?
dont know if thats true or not, but if it is im sure prices would drop on the 8s.

maybe when they release half life 2: episode 3 they will release extra portal stuff or somethin since portals so short.

[SephYuyX]

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resou...papercraft.jpg

[Izzy]

background!

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/385...dragoncah3.jpg

[Kaylia]

Everytime I try to open the game, it crashes and says I need atleast Directx 8. I have Directx 10 so..

Did you try to download "portal unleashed fix" on mininova (assuming you're using the dl'd version. No idea what it does, but it might works for you.

[Semitry]

Someone beat this in 18 minutes.

First part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koB2cEYjx8w

last 10 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBe5WtrQG4

lol at how they killed the end boss.

[Scythiroth]

Jeez, took me a few hours, but I enjoyed it all. Final boss and ending song = <3.

[theo]

Someone beat this in 18 minutes.

First part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koB2cEYjx8w

last 10 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBe5WtrQG4

lol at how they killed the end boss.

Epic. Yet strangely demoralizing, with every "god DAMN it why didn't I think of that ; ;" moment.

[Aerin]

We were all able to play it for a while about a week ago at school, very cool game.

There's a screenshot of the original game the guys made at my school posted in the hallway and it looks so different compared to what it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

[Pyree]

We were all able to play it for a while about a week ago at school, very cool game.

There's a screenshot of the original game the guys made at my school posted in the hallway and it looks so different compared to what it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

Wait a second...

You go to DigiPen too? And we're on the same server...?

But yes, you can even download and play Narbacular Drop at:
http://www.digipen.edu/main/Gallery_Gam ... cular_Drop

[Aerin]

We were all able to play it for a while about a week ago at school, very cool game.

There's a screenshot of the original game the guys made at my school posted in the hallway and it looks so different compared to what it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

Wait a second...

You go to DigiPen too? And we're on the same server...?

But yes, you can even download and play Narbacular Drop at:
http://www.digipen.edu/main/Gallery_Gam ... cular_Drop

haha awesome man what year are you? but ya i actually haven't played ffxi in months, i keep trying to quit but after 4 years i know they're really just breaks

[Pyree]

We were all able to play it for a while about a week ago at school, very cool game.

There's a screenshot of the original game the guys made at my school posted in the hallway and it looks so different compared to what it is now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

Wait a second...

You go to DigiPen too? And we're on the same server...?

But yes, you can even download and play Narbacular Drop at:
http://www.digipen.edu/main/Gallery_Gam ... cular_Drop

haha awesome man what year are you? but ya i actually haven't played ffxi in months, i keep trying to quit but after 4 years i know they're really just breaks

I'm a sophomore~ And although I'm logged in quite often, I don't really do much these days in-game...

But yeah, we'll need to meet eachother or something, I've only met like 2 or so people at DigiPen that play FFXI, and they've all been on another server...

[Aerin]

check your PM's

[SephYuyX]

So I finally got a chance to play this game, found a Portal only edition >.> <.< and beat it yesterday. I was actually kind of dissapointed with how short it was, I beat the first 18 levels in under an hour, then lvl19 came.. wtf, it's longer than the whole game. lol, so it was a longer game than I thought it would have been. Such a great game, the audio makes it even better, and the little sounds the turrets make rock. The difficulty level is like 0 though in the main game, I havent played any of the bonus games though. The flash version of the game is harder >.>;

I really hope they come out with a sequel though, somehow, dispite what little porblems I had with it, it's such a wonderful game.

[Kaylia]

I cant really imagine anyhard puzzle that wouldn't be annoying to execute. There is cheap trick almost every obstacle. Only exception are energy balls and turret at time.

Try the challenge maybe, # of portal were fun and challenging for the most part. # of step is incredibly annoying, time is ok.

[Khamsin]

I haven't tried step challenges yet. What counts as a "step"? Will opening a portal under yourself to spit you out somewhere else without hitting a movement key count as a step?

[Kaylia]

I haven't tried step challenges yet. What counts as a "step"? Will opening a portal under yourself to spit you out somewhere else without hitting a movement key count as a step?

Any lateral movement count as a step, and they go up pretty fast (1 per second or something). Sliding over a ledge (of your portal) count as a step too, and moving out of a portal usually count for 2 step.

Yes, opening portal under your feet is the way to go, but even then, getting gold modal is really hard (didnt manage to get any). It's just frustrating, because you constantly have to reload to get the part perfectly