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Dead Island

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Dead Island
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Developers
Techland
Publishers
Deep Silver
Engines
Chrome Engine 5
Release dates
Windows September 6, 2011
macOS (OS X) April 2, 2014
Dead Island on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Dead Island
Dead Island 2011
Dead Island: Riptide 2013
Escape Dead Island 2014
Dead Island: Epidemic 2016
Dead Island: Definitive Edition 2016
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition 2016
Dead Island: Retro Revenge 2016
Dead Island 2 2023

Key points

The Dead Island Helper utility can be used to fix many bugs and tweak many advanced Dead Island settings, such as field of view and advanced graphics settings. Only use manual tweaks if it does not work for you.
DLC can no longer be purchased separately on Steam

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Game of the Year Edition only.
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Steam
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Windows and OS X.
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Amazon.com
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Region locked, cannot be used in Europe.[1]
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Mac App Store
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OS X only. Cannot play with Steam players.[2]
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All Windows versions require Steam.

Version differences

The Game of the Year Edition is a complete edition with all DLC.
Steam and Mac App Store players cannot play together.[2]

Essential improvements

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/91310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/91310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games and settings.

Video settings

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Field of view (FOV)

Widescreen Fixer supports this game.
Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Network

If you have installed mods or edited the .xml for characters, all clients need the same mods in order to play.
It should also be noted that challenges are global, so if you are close to killing for instance 1 million zombies with one characters, and you play co-op with another and hit one million total kills, this character will gain all the XP from completing the challenge
Steam and Mac App Store players cannot play together.[2]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Issues fixed

You can find various fixes in the FAQ on the Steam Community Discussions page for Dead Island.
If you don't want to manually apply some of these tweaks check out tools section at end of the page.

Long Load Times

Some users are experiencing ridiculously long load times when doing things like loading the menu, game, etc. It can literally take over 5-10 minutes for some people. Oddly enough, this may relate to error logging that is done by the game.

Instructions

Co-op Error Message: "The game you have tried to join is no longer available"

Instructions

Loud Distorted Audio

Dead Island has a compatibility problem with 7.1 output devices, this includes Logitech USB headsets (G35, G930) and 7.1 sound devices that use 3.5 mm analog connections. This issue is typically immediately recognizable when reaching the title screen and hearing a loud, frightening, distorted noise; this issue also carries over into the gameplay. This issue was present in Dead Island: Riptide, but was corrected by Techland. Techland has yet to correct the issue with the first Dead Island game. The definitive solution is to set your device to anything below 7.1 but other options exist that may help.

Instructions
Instructions

This will fix the game's sound partly, because static might still occur however most of the problem is over.

If this fix does not work, there is an alternative solution to static and crackling problems.

Instructions

It is recommended that you backup the Audio.scr file before doing this, though if you don't you can always just delete the file and the game will create a new one.

Game Crashes With Message: Problem Event: BEX

Users whose player names have non-English characters experience game crashes with this error message:

Problem event name: BEX App Name: DeadIslandGame.exe App version: 1.0.0.0 App timestamp: 4f100716 Fault module name: MSVCR90.dll Fault module version: 9.0.30729.6161 Fault module timestamp: 4dace5b9 Exception offset: 00036d36 Exception code: c0000417 Exception data 00000000 OS version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional info 1: 364e Additional info 2:364ecf2f9e26d8075e002643326a0340 Additional info 3: 1f40 Additional info 4: 1f4001d1190a4d768106236129b38e30c.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, 7
Processor (CPU) Core2Duo 2.66 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI 2600XT
GeForce 8600GT
512 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/91310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (91310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References