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Portal 2NewsPortal 2 Update
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Portal 2 Update

Portal 2 · published 17 May 2021, 23:05 UTC

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An update has been released for Portal 2 game and Authoring Tools

- Fixed custom maps with no lights disabling lighting for the rest of the play session
- Fixed Model Viewer and Face Poser not opening
- Fixed demo playback for workshop maps
- Fixed some text corruption related to UTF-8 conversion in some instances on Linux
- Moved the 32-bit Linux binaries into linux32
- Misc. rendering and other optimizations
- Removed the 100MB workshop level file size limit
- Added a +bench_demo <stats output> command line parameter which will run a demo, and quit after it is finished.
- Added a -bench_settings command line parameter to load a cfg/video_bench_{name}.txt file containing settings to load. There are a set of defaults provided, very_high_4k, very_high, high, medium and low.

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