The Walking Dead: Season One

The Walking Dead: Season One

Developer(s)	Telltale Games
Engine	Modified Telltale Tool
First release date	Episode 1 Windows, OS X April 25, 2012 Episode 2 Windows, OS X June 29, 2012 Episode 3 Windows, OS X August 29, 2012 Episode 4 Windows, OS X October 10, 2012 Episode 5 Windows, OS X November 21, 2012 Full Retail Version Windows, OS X December 11, 2012

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead: Season One	2012
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
The Walking Dead: Season Two

For the unrelated Activision title, see The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

General information

The Walking Dead Telltale Forum

The Walking Dead Telltale Website

Steam Users' Forums

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Developer Website
Steam
Amazon

Game data

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Windows (Steam)	Steam\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default
Mac	Users/<user>/Library/Application\ Support/Telltale\ Games/TheWalkingDead/prefs.prop

For Mac OS X, the latest version of prefs.prop might be under any of the folders in the Pack folder under your Steam folder.

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.

Graphics option	Native	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		To disable add -novsync in the shortcut target or Steam launch options.

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Controller support		See Controller support

Controller support

The game supports the Xbox 360 controller and the Logitech gamepad. Controllers need to be turned on and activated before the game starts in order to be recognised by the game.

x360ce

Problematic support: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29352

Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2

dinput8-x360cev21.zip • Link Go to www.tocaedit.com and click Downloads. Then go to: Utilities - Other > XBOX360 Controller Emulator > dinput8-x360cev21.zip Click on File > Download to save the zip. Then extract dinput8.dll from the blocker folder in the zip. Place dinput8.dll in the same folder as your Walking Dead executable. Create a profile for the Walking Dead executable with the Logitech Profiler to emulate the game's keyboard and mouse controls.

Controller support on Mac

Telltale has stated that controllers are not officially supported on the Mac.

Issues And Fixes

"WalkingDead101.exe has stopped working" Error Standard Steam troubleshooting • Link Standard Steam troubleshooting is required. Verify the integrity of the game cache, and run Steam and the game as an administrator. If it's still not working, right-click the game's executable, click Properties, click the Compatibility tab, and then check the options to run in compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME. Also check the option to disable desktop composition.

Poor performance with AMD graphics Turn shadows off • Link Turn the shadows off within the in-game settings

Corrupted textures or black boxes on screen with AMD graphics Set Anti-Aliasing to 'Application Controlled' • Link Caused by anti-aliasing being forced by the AMD Vision Engine Control Center. Set anti-aliasing to 'Application Controlled'.

Game will not launch in Steam Download DLL file and/or unplug game controllers • Link Download dinput8.dll. Place it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Walking Dead. The game should now launch. Unplugging game controllers may fix the problem as well.

Game Choices not saving between episodes or Episode showing "Coming Soon" Copy prefps.prop • Link The game stores two copies of a file called prefs.prop on your computer in different locations, and sometimes these can get out of sync. This has been especially noted to happen when moving from Episode 2 to 3, and Episode 4 to 5. It is highly recommended that you back up all your saves and both prefs.prop files in a completely separate location before you do this. First, look in the folders listed below and find the prefs.prop file with the largest size, then copy this file over the smaller one. If copying the largest file doesn't work, go to your backups and copy the one with the latest modified date over the older one. The file you replace may be in either the user folder or the Steam folder, make sure you compare them both.

Issues unresolved

No Invert Y-Axis Option

This game does not include a native invert y-axis option.

The utility SakasaMouse or Polynomial's Mouse Inverter will invert y-axis on the mouse controls, and is reported to work in the game. Using this driver will also invert the y-axis mouse controls for all aspects of the game, including menu items.

The Walking Dead does not recognize any analogue stick inversions using Xpadder.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows XP Service Pack 3/Vista/Windows 7	Windows XP Service Pack 3/Vista/Windows 7
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent	Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	3 GB	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM	ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB free	2 GB free

Mac
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Snow Leopard (10.6.X)	Snow Leopard (10.6.X)
Processor (CPU)	2.3 GHz Intel	Core 2 Duo 2GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card	1024 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB free	2 GB free

Steam requirements state that playing the title is not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks.