Episode 2 black screen
I bought the game off steam and finished episode one, but when i try to start episode 2 all i get is a black screen with the inventory slot of an axe on the side. I can move the mouse around and can hear sound but can't do anything.
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Playing a Steam download on Mac. Seems a lot of people are having trouble playing this game on Mac!
It's possible that your issue is caused by having multiple prefs.prop files, which sometimes happens for unknown reasons.
There should be only one prefs.prop, and that's in the savegame folder:
Win Vista/7: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
XP: %userprofile%\My Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/
If you run TWD in compatibility mode for win95 or win98/me it might save to:
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\GameData
or
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Please open the games install folder.
To find the install folder from within Steam, Right click "The Walking Dead" and select "properties".
Then open the "Local Files" Tab. There select "Browse local files"
Please check if there are additional prefs.prop files in the install folder or its subfolders.
If so, make a backup copy of the prefs.prop and delete it from the install folder.
If that doesn't help try the steps below.
If you are playing through steam, you first need to disable steam cloud for TWD (In Steam, right click TWD and select "properties". Open the tab "updates" and remove the checkbox from "Enable Steam cloud synchronization for TWD").
Then make a backup copy of the savegame folder's prefs.prop, and then try copying the install folder prefs.prop to the savegame folder.
Are you playing on steam?
I just updated the instructions for steam above to be platform neutral.
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~/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/
should be enough.
You can then check if you can start Episode 2 with random choices to see if it helped.
There is no prefs.prop file.
Just to be clear, there is no save game folder and the directory quoted doesn't exist.
I've checked that now. You should be able to browse the TheWalkingDead.app. Just right click (or CTRL click) on it and select "Show package contents".
Please look for a prefs.prop in TheWalkingDead.app/Contents/Resources and its subfolders.
That's odd. I haven't seen anyone with a different savegame folder location.
Have you tried opening it by pasting the path into Finders "Go to folder" function? (Go/Go to Folder... or CMD-SHIFT-G)
Sorry, what am I doing with it now?
Navigate to the savegame folder. Make a backup copy of the prefs.prop that's in there, and then replace the original with the prefs.prop from the package.
~/Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/TheWalkingDead/
However, it's also introduced a new problem - it now freezes and is entirely unplayable at the point where you have to cut the teachers leg off.
Not impressed with TTG here. Thanks for your time tho DjNDB
I've seen some reports of the leg chopping freeze, but no real solution. Some have worked around it by not cutting it at all.
One user was able to cut it, after he deleted the install files of Episode 2, and downloaded them again.
That wasn't on the Steam version though.
I would start with verifying your game cache files.
If that doesn't work, try deleting the Episode 2 files and downloading them again.
That should work.