Comments on: Potential fix for Braid crash

By: Elvis

Elvis — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:20:42 +0000

Guys, only Run Braid as an Admin and it will start.
I had the problem that i got an black window when i start Braid with loading mouse pointer.

After starting it as an Admin the Problem wasnt there anymore

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:39:06 +0000

I get a flicker (like 1 frame of black screen) ever couple seconds or so. any ideas why? sometimes it’s there, and sometimes it isn’t… not consistent.

I have a GeForce 4800 twin turbo vacuum cleaner model I got at Meltdown (before it was Gamefest)… Pentium 2.26Ghz

By: Donovon

Donovon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:26:20 +0000

I hope my last comment “the game just needs a mega patch” didn’t offend you Jonathan, in my own ignorance I didn’t know anything about this game other than it got rave reviews, including who made the game. I just watched Zero Punctuation’s video review of the game and realized that this is your game. I’m actually really wanting to play it but I’m still having the game crashing issue. My screen resolution is 1440X900 if that helps. Please let me know if you discover anything about my issue. I’d really appreciate it.

By: Donovon

Donovon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:44:59 +0000

Oh and I am playing the full game via Steam if that helps.

By: Donovon

Donovon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:44:16 +0000

No I’m not overclocking at all, and you’re right the symptom is totally either driver or hardware related when you see it. But I’ve had zero issues like this before Braid, and zero issues like it when I’m playing anything else(TF2, CS Source, L4D, etc). When I found this forum though I realized there is a decent chance that the game just needs a mega patch for these types of compatibility issues. My 9800 does support pixel shader 2.0 so I’m stumped on why this would happen. I’m curious to know how many other people have played this game with a radeon 9800 Pro with the latest drivers and see if there are any success stories?

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:32:10 +0000

This is very strange. It does seem like a graphics driver bug, but I haven’t heard of anyone with this problem. Are you overclocking?

By: Donovon

Donovon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:49:08 +0000

My PC P4 2.66ghz/2GB/Radeon9800proAGP is having a similar but different issue. I can play the game perfect but after about 1-3 minutes into the game the screen gets garbled and I have to Alt F4 the game, but even then my screen is so garbled and I can tell that an ATI window is asking me to report the issue (only cuz I’m a PC technician and I recognize it) but everything is too garbled to read and I have to restart the computer to fix it. Running fresh Windows XP SP3 with all updates, the latest ATI drivers for the card 9.3.1Legacy drivers and have latest bios update on motherboard, and NO issues with any other games in my giant Steam collection. If anyone else has this issue please speak up, and please let me know if a fix for this is on the way or out already. Thank you.

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:45:49 +0000

The game just isn’t going to run on graphics cards that don’t do Pixel Shader 2. That’s unfortunate, but how it is… sorry about that.

By: P-L

P-L — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:05:26 +0000

i received an error msg saying that i need the pixel shadow 2 or somthin like that the first time i load the demo… so i loaded this version and now it opens but its all messed up, i only see square(seems like the graphics arent loading) a problem with my graphic card? this isnt a very powerfull pc, any tips? (or another version of the demo for low-performance PC)

By: Nate4s

Nate4s — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:50:48 +0000

By the way, that method I listed above does not work when you do it through Steam. It only seems to work for me when I use it on a shortcut made from the actual .exe.