Aperture Desk Job


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Subseries of Half-Life
Portal	2007
Portal 2	2011
Portal 2 Sixense Perceptual Pack	2013
Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative (unofficial mod)	2014
Portal Stories (series)
The Lab	2016
Bridge Constructor Portal	2017
Moondust	2018
Aperture Hand Lab	2019
Aperture Desk Job	2022

Aperture Desk Job is an interactive tech demo for the Steam Deck set in the Portal universe.

General information

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Aperture Desk Job requires a controller in order to play, keyboard and mouse are not supported.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game\steampal\cfg\video.txt^{[Note 1]}
Linux

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game\steampal\cfg\machine_convars.vcfg^{[Note 1]}
Linux

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Letterboxed or Vert- if narrower or wider than 16:10, respectively.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Vert- however.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		4x MSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Keyboard and mouse, touch	State	Notes
Remapping		Keyboard is not supported.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Only for Menu Navigation.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
Controller
Controller support		Designed for Steam Deck, but works with most controllers.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Controller remapping can be done through Steam Input's Controller Layout page.
Controller sensitivity		You can only change the Camera Sensitivity for Mouse-like Camera actions (such as [Gyro Aim Turret] and [Right Trackball]) on Steam Input's Controller Layoutpage.^[1]
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Instead of traditional prompts, the in-game desk has buttons with labels that match xbox buttons.
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Game does not support keyboard & mouse.

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Official controller preset(s)		Steam Deck, DualShock 4, Xbox One Controller, Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and Steam Controller
Steam Controller button prompts

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Vulkan		Accessible through Windows when using the command line -vulkan

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-7500 AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	12 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB of VRAM
Other		Steam Deck

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	SteamOS
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-7500 AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	12 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB of VRAM
Other		Steam Deck

A 64-bit operating system is required.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

↑ Verified by User:Al2009man on 2022-03-17
Increased the Camera Sensitivity in Chapter 5-onwards and rebinds [Aim Turret] to [Right Trackball] camera, which also doubles as a Camera for the Turret section

Developers

	Valve Corporation
Engines
	Source 2
Release dates
Windows	March 1, 2022
Linux	March 1, 2022
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control, Gestures, Voice control
Genres	Action
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	North America
Series	Portal