Steam Frame’s first compatibility ratings reveal Portal 2 doesn’t quite fit Valve’s own hardware

After a long wait and a lot of silence, we finally have information about two of the three products Valve said it would release. The Steam Controller is now available to buy, and the Steam Machine is open for pre-orders, even if the price is a little high. However, the elusive third product, the Steam Frame, has yet to materialise. All we really know about it is that it’ll be a VR setup, but not much else.

Well, it turns out that there has been movement on the Steam Frame front, as Portal 2 has just received a rating detailing how well it works on the hardware. And while it checks most of the boxes, it seems that the game’s age means that it can’t quite match the Steam Frame’s high resolution.

Portal 2 gets a near-perfect rating for the Steam Frame

Here’s hoping they can iron out the issues

As spotted by Notebook Check, this news comes to us via Brad Lynch on X, who spotted new Steam Frame compatibility ratings for Valve’s title Portal 2. It’s labelled as ‘Playable,’ and it ticks some major boxes: the game shows proper Steam Fram button glyphs, text reads fine, and the default graphics settings work fine.

Unfortunately, it seems that Portal 2’s age (yes, it’s quite old now; it came out in 2011) has held it back from achieving a perfect score. The scoring notes that the game doesn’t match the Steam Frame’s native resolution and “may experience degraded performance.” It’s not too much of a shocker to learn that a 15-year-old game wasn’t built with a 2026 VR headset in mind, but it’s still a bummer. Hopefully, Valve can push out a patch for Portal 2 that lets it take advantage of the Steam Frame’s resolution.