It is not enough to just copy the properties - if this happens the entire portal needs to be reinitialized. The only way to do this is to run CollectPortals again to reset all portals in the map.
This was by far the messiest game, there's two reasons for this.
First, the portal links do not need to be in an actual portal sector, so they cannot be used to detect portal sectors.
Second, the game moves portals in place, so all offsets are (0,0,0) so that not even these can be used for detection.
The only working method is the super-complicated original way to look up portals at run time, just being done at map start.
Having static portal links should reduce the render glitches quite significantly because the renderer knows now which sectors belong to a portal and can use this information to ensure proper processing.
Unlike the other games these are so poorly defined that the engine has to rely on the original fudging to pick the proper portal to link to. As a result they are just as limited as they always were.
In addition all the portal search code had to be reinstated.
