Braid — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| The Anniversary Edition is on sale cheap! | 2025-01-11 | https://store.steampowered.com/app/499180/Braid_Anniversary_Edition/ Recently we released the Anniversary Edition of Braid, which has fully hand-repainted graphics, a bunch of new levels, and tons of developer commentary. If you missed it in the Winter Sale, we have it on sale again for 75% off, just for a few days more! Here's the trailer: We made the Anniversary Edition a separate release on Steam so that we could preserve the original Braid unchanged, and ensure it still works for people with older systems (the game was released in 2009!) But if you have a newer system and want more stuff, you can follow the link below to the new Steam pag |
| Braid Anniversary Super Sale | 2024-06-27 | We recently released Braid, Anniversary Edition, which is a new version of Braid that contains a bunch of new puzzles and other levels (almost doubling the size of the game), and 15 hours of developer commentary, where you can see details about how the game was made, and learn dark secrets of puzzle design. The Anniversary Edition is now on sale for 75% off, making it super cheap if you haven't picked it up yet. And if you already own The Witness (or want to pick that up too), you get an extra discount on top. We're very proud of this new edition of Braid and if you like the old game, we hope you check it out. Here are the store pages for the |
| Updates | 2014-06-27 | We've been updating the Braid executable on Steam recently and will continue to do so in the near future. We're not adding anything to the game or changing the gameplay in any way; the updates are just about fixing problems running the game for people whose operating system / driver / hardware config is causing problems. The biggest things we've done are: * Add a launcher in Windows which will help you set options easily. If you have a mysterious crash, you might try running in windowed mode, for example. * Enabled Steam's crash reporting, which will help us see what kinds of problems are out there in the world and how widespread they are. (T |
| Updates | 2014-06-27 | We've been updating the Braid executable on Steam recently and will continue to do so in the near future. We're not adding anything to the game or changing the gameplay in any way; the updates are just about fixing problems running the game for people whose operating system / driver / hardware config is causing problems. The biggest things we've done are: * Add a launcher in Windows which will help you set options easily. If you have a mysterious crash, you might try running in windowed mode, for example. * Enabled Steam's crash reporting, which will help us see what kinds of problems are out there in the world and how widespread they are. (T |
| New AMD beta driver fixes crashes on high-end AMD GPUs | 2014-03-19 | If you have been having problems on AMD cards running Braid, this driver is likely to fix the problem: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx Over time this fix should make its way into the non-beta driver. |
| New AMD beta driver fixes crashes on high-end AMD GPUs | 2014-03-19 | If you have been having problems on AMD cards running Braid, this driver is likely to fix the problem: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx Over time this fix should make its way into the non-beta driver. |
| New Beta | 2014-01-21 | There is a new beta up that will hopefully fix crashes and other misc problems that people have been having. To try it, pick "newbeta" from the betas tab. Then (for good measure) right-click on Braid, to a Delete Local Content, and install the new version. Please let me know if this version works for you! If it does not cause any major problems I would like to move it to the main branch. |
| New Beta | 2014-01-21 | There is a new beta up that will hopefully fix crashes and other misc problems that people have been having. To try it, pick "newbeta" from the betas tab. Then (for good measure) right-click on Braid, to a Delete Local Content, and install the new version. Please let me know if this version works for you! If it does not cause any major problems I would like to move it to the main branch. |
| Beta updated again | 2013-12-26 | Changed package format. (May reduce crashes on startup.) |
| Beta updated again | 2013-12-26 | Changed package format. (May reduce crashes on startup.) |
| Beta Update | 2013-12-26 | The beta has been updated. Fixes since the last beta include: Mouse handling robustness improved; mouse drift on puzzle screen should be gone. More-robust selection of fullscreen display modes. Fall back to windowed mode if a fullscreen mode cannot be found. In windowed mode, the window can be resized. (Note: -width and -height arguments will not currently affect fullscreen mode; they only affect windowed mode). Hopefully runs on Windows XP again (not yet tested locally, but if someone out there could try it, that would be great). |
| Beta Update | 2013-12-26 | The beta has been updated. Fixes since the last beta include: Mouse handling robustness improved; mouse drift on puzzle screen should be gone. More-robust selection of fullscreen display modes. Fall back to windowed mode if a fullscreen mode cannot be found. In windowed mode, the window can be resized. (Note: -width and -height arguments will not currently affect fullscreen mode; they only affect windowed mode). Hopefully runs on Windows XP again (not yet tested locally, but if someone out there could try it, that would be great). |
| Rollback | 2013-12-25 | The new update solved some problems for some people, but apparently it created new problems for other people. So I am rolling back the main version of Braid to the old one until all problems are solved. Among the problems introduced in the new update: * The game no longer worked on Windows XP (this was caused by the updating of the game to the new Visual Studio 2013 compiler; Visual Studio now breaks XP compatibility by default). * The mouse got stuck on the puzzle screen for some players, making puzzles unplayable. * The game sometimes cannot find a good display mode for some players, whereas it found one before. I apologize for the inconven |
| Rollback | 2013-12-25 | The new update solved some problems for some people, but apparently it created new problems for other people. So I am rolling back the main version of Braid to the old one until all problems are solved. Among the problems introduced in the new update: * The game no longer worked on Windows XP (this was caused by the updating of the game to the new Visual Studio 2013 compiler; Visual Studio now breaks XP compatibility by default). * The mouse got stuck on the puzzle screen for some players, making puzzles unplayable. * The game sometimes cannot find a good display mode for some players, whereas it found one before. I apologize for the inconven |
| Update | 2013-12-25 | People are wondering about the update; so far it is some bug fixes for Windows: Fixed: Mouse creep on puzzle screens on some systems. Fixed: December savegames said (null) instead of the month name. Fixed: Crash due to out-of-bounds access when loading shaders, sometimes. Took out "How to Play" menu, renamed Help & Options to be just Options. |
| Update | 2013-12-25 | People are wondering about the update; so far it is some bug fixes for Windows: Fixed: Mouse creep on puzzle screens on some systems. Fixed: December savegames said (null) instead of the month name. Fixed: Crash due to out-of-bounds access when loading shaders, sometimes. Took out "How to Play" menu, renamed Help & Options to be just Options. |