Comments on: Steam is having a big Braid sale.

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:09:57 +0000

The game is probably picking that resolution because it is running so slowly already. Braid is very fill-rate intensive, so the problem is most likely that your graphics hardware just can’t fill that many pixels.

If you want, you can try adding:

-width 1280 -height 960

as command-line options, but the game is going to run much more slowly than it does in 640×480.

By: Jon Pritchard

Jon Pritchard — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:27:42 +0000

I bought your game in the steam sale it looks beautiful, unfortunately I have to play it under Wine and this might be why the game’s very slow or the resolution is terrible (640×480). Is there anyway to actually set the size of the window?

Also I’m using an integrated Intel graphics card and performance is really poor, I don’t know why it’s so poor in this game especially, perhaps its poor drivers?

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:48:38 +0000

Hmm, Grav, what are your system specs (video card and CPU)?

By: Grav

Grav — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:45:52 +0000

I’ve tried everything with the -60fps and -no_post, I googled and tried some other stuff, nothing works. It is just one big FPS drop fest for me.

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:41:22 +0000

Okay. I will try looking into this further, but I don’t have a machine with a 9500M so it’s a little difficult.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:32 +0000

I’m not sure how to find out what w7 version I am running, other than it is home premium 4 bit.

I’ve just updated the drivers to 8.6.11.8681, for geforce 9500M (which is a hybrid SLI of 9200MGS+9400MG).

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:30:34 +0000

Braid runs fine in Windows 7 on Steam, for most people. I just downloaded a fresh copy and tried it.

The problem is something system-specific, perhaps your graphics drivers. What graphics hardware and drivers do you have? What version of Windows 7 is it?

By: Len

Len — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:40 +0000

I am having the same trouble with Braid on Windows 7. I have tried setting a launch option of “-windowed” but that did not help. It works in XP mode, but not as well as it should.

You or Steam should inform people that this game does not run in Windows 7, at least through Steam.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:32:14 +0000

No luck. Updated bios, chipset, and display drivers, reinstalled Steam and Braid, same problem. I installed it on my desktop (also running windows 7 64 bit) and it runs fine. Not a huge problem cause I can play it on the desktop, but if you’ve got any other suggestions or ideas I’ll try anything.
Thanks again.
M

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55:13 +0000

I bought the dell last summer with vista on it, but liked windows 7 on my desktop so thought I’d upgrade. Dell sells this laptop with 7 loaded on it now so they should support it ok. I’ll check for new drivers and let you know what happens. Thanks for the speedy response.