Please fix me!!

When I first played Braid, the game ran extremely slowly. After hunting down the issue for a while, it seems to have something to do with vertical sync and Nvidia graphics cards (here’s the story in the official Braid blog). Here’s how I fixed it.

1. Open the Nvidia control panel. (Right-click on the desktop)

2. Go to 3D Settings » Manage 3D settings. Go to the Program Settings tab and click the Add button.

3. Navigate to the Braid installation folder (by default it should be C:Program FilesBraid) and double-click on the braid.exe file.

4. Scroll to the bottom of the settings list and on the very last item, Vertical sync, change the setting to Forced on.

5. Click the apply button and close the control panel. Launch Braid and enjoy!

This worked for me with the Greenhouse version of Braid and an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS. Did it work for you? Please leave a comment!

Gmail gadget locked up in Windows 7

So far, almost all software I’ve tried to run under Windows 7 has worked without any problems. Today I installed Google Desktop, and everything was working fine until I added the Gmail gadget. As soon as I clicked the sign in button, Google Desktop became unresponsive and eventually came crashing down.

All other gadgets I’ve tried, including the new Google Calender gadget, work fine.

There’s a thread about this in the Google Desktop Help group. I guess we’ll just have to wait until Google fixes this, unfortunately.

Something called the Distributed Link Tracking Client crashed. With it, Aero and my Internet connection also went down.

The problem fixed itself within a minute. Nothing major, I guess, but it is a beta after all.