Portal 2......Is it me or is the lighting really....bad/not working?

Hi I just got Portal 2 and I am running it at a 600p windowed resolution with everything on high with no AA and 2x AF...

I'm getting very simple lighting and almost no reflections (on portal gun, world etc). Maybe I have too high expectations or something? But the Portal gun looks dirty and stark especially, and I don't get the reflections and all that from portal 1....is this supposed to happen?

im running it maxed out on my laptop. it looks beautiful. idk what the deal is with yours. post screen shots

Here are screen shots (bad quality sorry) yeah 1024 x 600

1280 x 720 drops the silky smooth 60fps to around 30....so....

Here are the SETTINGS I am using...

Set shader detail on high.ampiva

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Yeah I did that.....it's fine now....still looks a bit stark and dirty though, but better. Anyways, I'm getting around 40 FPS now so...

My laptop isn't great anyway...

HD 6370M 512MB

i5 Quad Core

8GB RAM

You might want to disable vertical sync for a performance boost.ampiva

Yeah I tried that....it gives me a slight performance boost at the cost of screen tearing...which looks ugly, but the high fps is better I suppose

Thanks!