I got the same problem than supersheep.
The game runs indeed, but there is no image on braid window, just a black screen. However, i can hear the music and if I click some buttons (esc, enter, space) something sounds there.

I’m running the game in WinXP SP3, with a Pentium 4 2.40Ghz. Graphics come from a Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000

Some idea why this could be happening?

PlooS

Pixel Shader Insufficient:

My graphics . . need higher than 2.0.

I have windows xp
i have installed explorer 7 and DX9
in an attempt to fix it.
I have typed in “-windowed”
my card is radeon 9000

please help me.

Now I just need to figure out how to get it back to full version!

I have a problem, however: I installed the demo version to help test the game and lo! if it didn’t completely screw my game up. I installed it in a different directory to my Full game, but unfortunately they’ve both become messed up.

I’ve uninstalled the demo, but now I’ve lost all my jigsaw pieces and, most importantly, *****s. It’s pretty annoying 🙁 Please tell me there’s some way to retrieve my save game (wherever the hell it’s installed!).

Thank you… although I have a feeling they’re lost for good 🙁

I also wanted to let you know that release 2, and this new demo version, did NOT solve my VSync issues (although putting -no_sync_test in the command box still fixes it nicely). As I’ve said before, I’m running Vista x86 Home Premium with an 8800GTS. An E6600 CoreDuo and 4GB of RAM.

Also, more importantly (to me) pressing Print Screen does not produce any images 🙁 I have given Braid admin access and installed it on a different HD to the OS. It will quite happily auto-fill a directory called “Shots” when I click Snapshot in the editor, though… it just won’t take a screen grab.

Anyways, sorry to burden your already overflowing inbox! Great job on the PC version!

The only problem I’ve had with Braid was the Vsync issue, which you promptly addressed. I just wanted to say how impressed I am by the support you’re giving the game. Any game, especially a PC game, is inevitably going to have issues on release, and Braid is no exception. Had Braid come out of a big publisher though, the best we might have seen these past few days was a press release saying “We’re looking into the issues reported by a small percentage of users.” and possibly a patch a few months down the line.

You on the other hand have reacted immediately to any reported problems and are obviously working diligently to fix them in a reasonable timeframe (Read: Days, not months), and I just had to commend you for it.

Thanks for a wonderful game, and thanks for all the love and effort you continue to put into it!

– Jeff K.

Tried the new build on the laptop. Runs great.

Only problems so far are that the black bars, when arranging the puzzle pieces, are all corrupted and the “screen size” setting is slightly broken on lower resolutions (seems to move the centre of the image to the bottom left of the screen).

The thing about the PC, though, is that it’s a more-free and open platform than the 360, which is important in some ways. What if someone wants to play Braid 20 years from now? They probably aren’t going to be able to download it from XBLA.