Why are my Sprites Flickering in Braid?

While playing Braid, I constantly see sprites flickering and disappearing through the whole game. I have searched a lot but no one seems to have the same problem on PC or Console.

here are some example screenshots:

here is the full album of woe

I bought Braid as part of Humble Bundle 3 and activated it on Steam.

It is running on XP Professional with 2.00 GHz processor and 1.37 GB of RAM video card Nvidia GeForce 6100

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1:

I had that flickering, too. Turning VSync off did the trick for me: In Steam, right click Braid, choose properties, then Set Launch Options... and enter -no_vsync there. You can also try -windowed or -30fps. There's a list of Braid's command line switches with which you could further play around.

If you're not running Braid via Steam, first, as Fambida suggested, make sure you got the required DirectX files etc. Then right click your Braid shortcut, choose properties and append -no_vsync after Braid.exe (if there are quotes, after these).

Solution 2:

All I can suggest is updating your Graphics card and C++ redistributable package like Fambida suggested above, and then try running as administrator.