Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · August 30, 2011, 12:02 pm

When I first installed Portal 2, there is background music in the menu screen.

For the past few months, the music either does not play at all (most of the times) or it only plays for a fraction of a second. Now, when I am in the menu screen, there is just silence.

Everything else works just fine, and the lack of music is not devastating, but I am just wondering whether everyone else is experiencing this issue.

Interestingly, after I load a map and played it for a while, the music is back once I return to the main menu.

Portal 2 maps in chronological order:
Vengeance
Olympic
[SP] Interception
Interception PeTI
Herman
Uprise
Unified

#2 · August 30, 2011, 12:22 pm

It's been a bug for a while, it happens to everyone.

#3 · August 30, 2011, 12:54 pm

I cannot imagine it's something that is difficult to fix.

Valve is full of smart people; someone surely knows the solution.

Portal 2 maps in chronological order:
Vengeance
Olympic
[SP] Interception
Interception PeTI
Herman
Uprise
Unified

#4 · August 30, 2011, 2:09 pm

My friend has a Mac and isn't having this problem, so it's probably isolated to the Windows version. For once Windows users got screwed out of something for gaming.

At any rate, I heard on the Steam forums that this was caused by the last update to Portal 2. It's likely that the DLC will come with a new update, so hopefully that update will fix whatever they screwed up with the previous one.

Try out Twin Pillars, a Portal 2 map by BOB74j.

#5 · August 30, 2011, 4:51 pm

It's caused by Steve Jobs' secret virus.

In fact, I have long suspected that Jobs is actually a Sith Lord.

Portal 2 maps in chronological order:
Vengeance
Olympic
[SP] Interception
Interception PeTI
Herman
Uprise
Unified

#6 · August 30, 2011, 5:56 pm

Since you're already there, make them add an option to keep Wheatley in space even if you play mods (at least, without modding further).

the hills are alive... with the sound of music

#7 · August 30, 2011, 7:45 pm

Yeah, I had this problem also. But I don't worry about it.

Crazy is as crazy does.
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#8 · September 3, 2011, 12:08 am

satchmo wrote:

I cannot imagine it's something that is difficult to fix.

Valve is full of smart people; someone surely knows the solution.

Oh ho ho ho...

...If I had a nickel.

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#9 · September 3, 2011, 5:39 pm

Forget the nickel, go higher!
Yeah, sometimes it takes them a while to "fix" things.

Crazy is as crazy does.
My Work
[spoiler]Maps:
Revenge of the Angry Turrets
Capture the Cube [Co-op]
Capture the Cube 2 [Co-op]
TPWEGTH Sample Map
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center
Aperture Aquatic Testing Center 2
Aperture Time Testing Center
ML's Halloween Trick - 1000 downloads!
ML's Halloween Treat
ML's Combination - 1000 downloads!
ML's Jailbreak Labyrinth
ML's Tricky Teamwork [Co-op]
WIP:
"Capture the Cube 3"
Workshop Maps Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198008890579/myworkshopfiles/[/spoiler]

Portal 2 Menu No Music