Summary
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The Steam Controller is now on sale; Steam Machine is open for pre-orders; No Steam Frame.
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Portal 2 gets a “Playable” Steam Framework rating: correct glyphs, readable text, defaults work.
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Portal 2 does not support Steam Frame’s native resolution and performance may decrease.
After a long wait and a lot of silence, we finally have information on two of the three products that Valve said it would be releasing. The Steam Controller is now available for purchase, and the Steam Machine is open for pre-orders, even if the price is a bit high. However, the elusive third product, the Steam Framework, has yet to materialize. All we really know about it is that it will be a VR setup, but not much else.
Well, it turns out there’s movement on the Steam Frame front Portal 2 received a rating that shows how well it works on the hardware. And while it checks most of the boxes, it looks like the game’s age means it won’t quite match Steam Frame’s high resolution.
Portal 2 gets a near perfect rating for Steam Frame
Here’s hoping they can fix the issues
As seen Notebook checkthis news comes to us through Brad Lynch in XSeeing the new Steam Frame compatibility ratings for the Valve title Portal 2. It’s labeled “Playable” and ticks some key boxes: the game displays the correct Steam Fram button glyphs, text reads well, and default graphics settings work well.
Unfortunately, it appears so Portal 2 age (yes, it’s pretty old now; it came out in 2011) prevented it from achieving a perfect result. The account notes that the game is not compatible with Steam Frame’s native resolution and “may suffer performance degradation”. It’s not that shocking to learn that a 15-year-old game wasn’t made with 2026 VR headsets in mind, but it’s still confusing. Hopefully Valve can release a patch Portal 2 this allows it to use the resolution of the Steam Frame.
