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The Walking Dead: Season One

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The Walking Dead: Season One
The Walking Dead: Season One cover
Developers
Telltale Games
Engines
Telltale Tool
Release dates
Windows April 24, 2012
macOS (OS X) April 24, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 89
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Cinematic camera, Third-person
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Adventure, Quick time events
Art styles Stylized
Themes North America, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies
Series The Walking Dead (The Telltale Series)
The Walking Dead: Season One on HowLongToBeat
The Walking Dead: Season One on IGDB
The Walking Dead: Season One guide on StrategyWiki
The Walking Dead: Season One on MobyGames
The Walking Dead: Season One on Wikipedia
The Walking Dead (The Telltale Series)
Subseries of The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Season One 2012
The Walking Dead: Season Two 2013
The Walking Dead: Michonne 2016
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier 2016
The Walking Dead: The Final Season 2018
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series 2019

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.

General information

Telltale Community for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when launched directly from executable.[1] Complete Season
Windows
GamersGate
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Complete Season
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Complete Season
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete Season
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Complete Season
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Complete Season. Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Windows
Steam
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Complete Season
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
[2]
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
400 Days
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/207610/pfx/[Note 1]
The GOG.com Windows version from offline installers (i.e. not installed from the Galaxy client) stores everything in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\game.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/207610/pfx/[Note 1]
The GOG.com Windows version from offline installers (i.e. not installed from the Galaxy client) stores everything in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\game.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings

Input

Keyboard/mouse layout
Keyboard/mouse layout
Controller layout
Controller layout

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Not supported.[4]
Controller
Controller support
XInput controllers only;[5][6] for OS X use OsxDriver.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Not supported.[4]
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
OS X use OsxDriver.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Generic/other controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Voice, music and sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Fan translation download.
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, download.
Russian
1) Fan translation by «Tolma4 Team» – text
2) «GameSVoiCE» – audio (Episode 1 only).
Spanish
Improved fan translation, download, and fan translation for DLC 400 Days, download, both by Clan Dlan.
Turkish
Fan translation. Details missing—please edit this page and add it.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: The Walking Dead.
vorpX
G3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues fixed

Corrupted textures or black boxes on screen with AMD graphics

Set Anti-Aliasing to 'Application Controlled' in AMD Vision Engine Control Center[citation needed]

Poor performance with AMD graphics

Disable shadows in the in-game settings[citation needed]

Game will not launch

Install the latest DirectX End-User Runtimes.[citation needed]
Download dinput8.dll and extract it to <path-to-game>[citation needed]
Unplug game controllers[citation needed]
Press Alt+ Enter after clicking Play in Steam[citation needed]
The game has a bug where no videos or gameplay will play if the resolution is incorrect (leaving either a black screen or the desktop view). This also crashes dwm.exe.

Steam version: Game choices not saving between episodes or episode showing "Coming Soon"

The Steam version of the game stores two copies of the prefs.prop file in different locations, and sometimes these can get out of sync.
Back up both versions before proceeding.
Copy prefs.prop[citation needed]
  1. Look at prefs.prop in both of these folders:
  2. Find the prefs.prop file with the larger size.
  3. Copy this file into the other folder, overwriting the smaller one.

Notes

If copying the largest file does not work, copy the backed up version of the file with the latest modified date over the older one.
For OS X, the latest version of prefs.prop might be under any of the folders in the Pack folder within TheWalkingDead.app. Right-click on 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'

Disable network connection while playing[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL
OS X only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

SLI support

By default, the Nvidia profile does not have SLI compatibility bits for the game.
Enable SLI support[citation needed]
  1. Open the game profile via Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Change SLI compatibility bits to 0x42506405[7]
  3. Change NVIDIA predefined SLI mode to SLI_PREDEFINED_MODE_FORCE_AFR2
  4. Change NVIDIA predefined number of GPUs to use on SLI rendering mode to SLI_PREDEFINED_GPU_COUNT_FOUR
  5. Apply changes.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI
Nvidia
512 MB of VRAM
Intel integrated graphics not recommended
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6
Processor (CPU) 2.3 GHz Intel
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI
Nvidia
512 MB of VRAM
Intel integrated graphics, Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks not recommended.


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>/207610/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (207610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References