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Portal Stories: Mel

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Portal Stories: Mel
Portal Stories: Mel cover
Developers
Prism Studios
Engines
Source
Release dates
Windows June 25, 2015
macOS (OS X) June 25, 2015
Linux June 25, 2015
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America, Post-apocalyptic
Series Portal Stories
Portal Stories
Subseries of Portal
Portal Stories: Mel 2015
Portal Stories: VR 2016

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
All versions require Steam DRM and Portal 2. Portal 2 does not need to be installed to play.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -novid command line argument[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Steam <path-to-game>\portal_stories\cfg
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Steam <path-to-game>\portal_stories\SAVE

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Field of view (FOV)

Enter console commands[2]
  1. Go to Options, Keyboard/Mouse, and set Allow Developer Console to Enabled.
  2. Press ~ to toggle the console.
  3. Type in bind w "+forward; cl_fov 110" and press Enter.
  4. Type in viewmodel_offset_y 6 and press Enter. This moves the portal gun's position further away.
  5. Every time you load a map, press w to change the FOV to 110°.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master and music volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
German
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Fan dub by Pioneers Collective. Download here

Issues unresolved

Game changes microphone gain at launch

Modify configuration file[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Create a new file and name it autoexec.cfg
  3. Open the new file with your text editor of choice and add voice_mixer_volume 0.5
  4. Set the value to whatever you prefer your mic volume to be, I set mine to 0.5 which translates to 50% gain

Games does not launch on Linux due to libGL error

If the games fails to launch on a Linux system with an AMD card and you encounter the error libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open radeonsi (search paths /usr/lib32/dri), do the following:

Modify libstdc++.so.6[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>/bin
  2. Delete libstdc++.so.6 or rename it to, for example, libstdc++.so.6.bak

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Vulkan
Use -vulkan Command line argument. Works via DXVK translation layer.[5]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 11 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400
Nvidia GeForce 8600M
Intel HD Graphics 3000
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 11 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400
Nvidia GeForce 8600M
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU) 2.8 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 11 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2600
Nvidia GeForce 8600
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) OpenAL compatible
Other Nvidia Drivers 310, AMD Drivers 12.11


References

  1. Verified by User:Blackbird on 2016-10-05
  2. Permanent FOV in Portal 2 and Change Portal Gun Position - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Verified by User:Hawaii_Beach on 2018-02-21
  4. Reference
  5. gamingonlinux.com - last accessed on May 2023