The Walking Dead: Season One

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The Walking Dead: Season One

Developers   Telltale Games

Engines   Telltale Tool

Release dates Windows April 25, 2012 OS X April 25, 2012

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead: Season One	2012
Episode 1: A New Day
Episode 2: Starved For Help
Episode 3: Long Road Ahead
Episode 4: Around Every Corner
Episode 5: No Time Left
400 Days
The Walking Dead: Season Two	2013
Episode 1: All That Remains
Episode 2: A House Divided
Episode 3: In Harm's Way
Episode 4: Amid the Ruins
Episode 5: No Going Back

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

General information

The Walking Dead Telltale Forum

The Walking Dead Telltale Website

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Developer website		Includes 400 Days DLC for free.
Amazon.com
GamersGate
GameStop
Green Man Gaming
Origin		May not be available in some regions
Steam

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
400 Days

Essential improvements

SLI support

By default the NVIDIA profile does not have SLI compatibility bits for the game. If you have a SLI setup on your computer and would like to improve your general performance you might want to enable SLI support.

Enable SLI support Open the game profile via NVIDIA Inspector Change SLI compatibility bits to 0x42506405 Change NVIDIA predefined SLI mode to SLI_PREDEFINED_MODE_FORCE_AFR2 Change NVIDIA predefined number of GPUs to use on SLI rendering mode to SLI_PREDEFINED_GPU_COUNT_FOUR Apply changes.

Game data

Configuration file and save game data location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
Ultra-widescreen		Use Flawless Widescreen or Widescreen Fixer.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use GameCompanion or similar software.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be forced through video driver.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Enabled by default; see Vertical sync (Vsync).
High frame rate		No frame rate or refresh rate cap.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

-novsync (Steam) Find The Walking Dead: Season One in your Steam Library Right-click the game title Select Properties Select Set Launch Options... Input -novsync Press OK Launch the game  Force off through video driver Open the game profile from NVIDIA Control Panel or NVIDIA Inspector. Force off vertical sync.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Not supported.
Controller
Controller support		XInput controllers only; for OS X use OsxDriver.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion		Not supported.

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Voice, music and sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
Italian
German
Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation, see Turkish.

Turkish

A Turkish fan patch is available for the following content:

• Episode 1: A New Day
• Episode 2: Starved For Help
• Episode 3: Long Road Ahead
• Episode 4: Around Every Corner
• Episode 5: No Time Left
• 400 Days DLC

Issues fixed

"WalkingDead101.exe has stopped working" Error

Standard Steam troubleshooting 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. Another solution is to check if your steam.exe is being run with Vista compatibility mode, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe or Steam Application(or your variant path) right click the application, then click Properties, and find the Compatibility tab. Check if the application is being run with Vista compatibility, if so and it is grayed out click "Change settings for all users" and un-check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and click apply. Once this is done close your steam.exe and all steam related processes or restart your computer, restart Steam and launch The Walking Dead this "should" fix the issue, and fix the stuttering caused by using the advent of the Windows 98/ME fix. On a sidenote before trying this fix make sure your "The Walking Dead.exe" isn't running in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode. If it is, it makes this fix pointless because the actual game is still being run in that compatibility mode and will still cause stuttering. If you start the game while the program "D3D Overrider" (v2.0.1) is running in the background, the game will possibly crash. The current solution is to close D3D Overrider while you play the game in this case.

Poor performance with AMD graphics

Turn shadows off 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' 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 Install the latest DirectX End-User Runtimes. If problems persist, download dinput8.dll and extract into the installation folder. The game should now launch. Unplugging game controllers may fix the problem as well. Another possible solution (Windows 7): Make sure that Steam is not running in Vista Compatibility mode. First make sure Steam is not running. Right click Steam icon, select properties and the compatibility Tab. If "run this programme in compatibility mode" box is ticked untick it.

Steam version: Game Choices not saving between episodes or Episode showing "Coming Soon"

Copy prefs.prop The Steam version of 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. 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 both folders listed below and find the prefs.prop file with the largest size, then copy this file into the other folder, overwriting 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.   Location  User folder %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead Installation folder <path-to-game>\Pack\default\ For OS X, the latest version of prefs.prop might be under any of the folders in the Pack folder under your Steam folder inside TheWalkingDead.app. Right click it and choose Show Package Contents to access it. The user folder save location on OS X is ~/Library/Application Support/TellTale Games/The Walking Dead.

"Walking Dead crashes on intro-screen, saying 'connecting'" Error

Disable nework connection Less than a fix, this is a workaround. The crash occurs on the intro page after 'click to continue' when the games displays a progress bar saying 'connecting'. Disabling your network (e.g. via explorer -> 'my network places' -> 'connections' or via the Start button -> 'control panel' -> 'network connections'), will make the game run under these circumstances but you won't have Steam achievements as all of your network is down. ___How to disable your network:___ Go to the mentioned 'network connections' Right-click on the appropriate icon (must be blue = active) and pick 'deactivate'. Remember this icon's name. The icon will be greyed out Start game After you have stopped playing you want to right-click and ACTIVATE your network connection again.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent	Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI NVIDIA 512 MB of VRAM	ATI NVIDIA 1024 MB of VRAM

Intel integrated graphics not recommended

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)	2.3 GHz Intel	Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI NVIDIA 512 MB of VRAM	ATI NVIDIA 1024 MB of VRAM

Intel integrated graphics, Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks not recommended.