Update on the issue where the game crashes at the chapter The Escape: You simply have to roll back Valve's game-breaking updates by installing a patch right after you install the mod: github.com/Gistix/portal2vr/files/14343194/sp_a2_bts4.crash.-.rollback.fix.zip Extract the contents of this archive Navigate to steamapps->common->Portal 2 in the extracted files Copy the folders bin and portal 2 and paste them in your game's root folder This should result in you being able to complete the chapter The Escape without crashing. It's a shame to see Valve push useless updates that have no apparent objective other than to break the mods. Very dissapointing.
I’m stupid. What is the fix? It looks like a hard crash happens during a section called “The Escape”. “… quit the game in VR, uninstall the mod, progress a little bit, make a save. Even that didn't work. I'll show you my solution right now for this problem …” It has been many years since I played the flat version. Pre-ordered in 2011. Tried VorpX in 2019. I don’t keep saves from games I’ve finished. I am waiting for a working Portal 2 VR mod to play it again in VR. VorpX ‘gun face’ irritates me and theater mode doesn’t cut it for a first-person VR experience. I’m looking forward to trying Gistix’s mod. But only if it is (mostly) working. It looked like the solution was to load the next section. You seemed to say that didn’t work. Is it that a save with the VR mod installed made during “The Escape” will result in a crash at the shown point? The solution shown seems to be loading a save made in “The Fall” section. Or starting a new game at “The Fall”. How do you get that option? Is it by playing the game without the VR mod installed until you complete the sections “The Escape” and “The Fall”? Recap of solution: - Play in VR until just before completing “The Surprise” and save. - Uninstall VR mod. - Play in flatscreen until completing “The Escape” and “The Fall”. Save after completing “The Fall”. Allows for experiencing ‘turret swap’ scene. - Reinstall VR mod. (Hopefully, as this VR mod is only an engine mod it isn’t like Skyrim where some non-asset mods can f-up the saves when removed/readded.) - (optional) Reload from “The Surprise” near end to get as much of the VR experience in “The Escape” as you can before the hard crash. Like the turret assembly and boxing. - Start a new game in VR from “The Fall”. It is a mod. Allowing the game to do something never QA’d by the development team. As you said, some challenges should be expected. The experience seems worth it looking at your videos playing in VR. Thank you HUGELY for all the research and effort to record, edit, and post this kind of content! Very much appreciated!
I've finished the game on screen 3D back in 2012, so I have access to the entire chapter list and just straight up picked "The Fall" to skip over "The Escape". I would have had to play a big section on desktop in "The Escape" and I just did not want to do that, so I skipped the whole chapter. However next time I was going to play, I was going to go back and use the console to jump over the turret swap section, but without skipping the whole chapter. The offending map ID is sp_a2_bts4 so i was going to run changelevel sp_a2_bts5 Except now someone in github just posted a fix for the issue. Simply rolling back the game to build 11097438 fixes the issue completely. This requires a patch linked here github.com/Gistix/portal2vr/issues/125#issuecomment-1953962680
Update on the issue where the game crashes at the chapter The Escape:
You simply have to roll back Valve's game-breaking updates by installing a patch right after you install the mod:
github.com/Gistix/portal2vr/files/14343194/sp_a2_bts4.crash.-.rollback.fix.zip
Extract the contents of this archive
Navigate to steamapps->common->Portal 2 in the extracted files
Copy the folders bin and portal 2 and paste them in your game's root folder
This should result in you being able to complete the chapter The Escape without crashing.
It's a shame to see Valve push useless updates that have no apparent objective other than to break the mods. Very dissapointing.
I’m stupid. What is the fix? It looks like a hard crash happens during a section called “The Escape”.
“… quit the game in VR, uninstall the mod, progress a little bit, make a save. Even that didn't work. I'll show you my solution right now for this problem …”
It has been many years since I played the flat version. Pre-ordered in 2011. Tried VorpX in 2019. I don’t keep saves from games I’ve finished. I am waiting for a working Portal 2 VR mod to play it again in VR. VorpX ‘gun face’ irritates me and theater mode doesn’t cut it for a first-person VR experience. I’m looking forward to trying Gistix’s mod. But only if it is (mostly) working.
It looked like the solution was to load the next section. You seemed to say that didn’t work. Is it that a save with the VR mod installed made during “The Escape” will result in a crash at the shown point? The solution shown seems to be loading a save made in “The Fall” section. Or starting a new game at “The Fall”. How do you get that option? Is it by playing the game without the VR mod installed until you complete the sections “The Escape” and “The Fall”?
Recap of solution:
- Play in VR until just before completing “The Surprise” and save.
- Uninstall VR mod.
- Play in flatscreen until completing “The Escape” and “The Fall”. Save after completing “The Fall”. Allows for experiencing ‘turret swap’ scene.
- Reinstall VR mod. (Hopefully, as this VR mod is only an engine mod it isn’t like Skyrim where some non-asset mods can f-up the saves when removed/readded.)
- (optional) Reload from “The Surprise” near end to get as much of the VR experience in “The Escape” as you can before the hard crash. Like the turret assembly and boxing.
- Start a new game in VR from “The Fall”.
It is a mod. Allowing the game to do something never QA’d by the development team. As you said, some challenges should be expected. The experience seems worth it looking at your videos playing in VR. Thank you HUGELY for all the research and effort to record, edit, and post this kind of content! Very much appreciated!
I've finished the game on screen 3D back in 2012, so I have access to the entire chapter list and just straight up picked "The Fall" to skip over "The Escape". I would have had to play a big section on desktop in "The Escape" and I just did not want to do that, so I skipped the whole chapter.
However next time I was going to play, I was going to go back and use the console to jump over the turret swap section, but without skipping the whole chapter. The offending map ID is sp_a2_bts4 so i was going to run
changelevel sp_a2_bts5
Except now someone in github just posted a fix for the issue. Simply rolling back the game to build 11097438 fixes the issue completely. This requires a patch linked here
github.com/Gistix/portal2vr/issues/125#issuecomment-1953962680