TWD completely messed up. Direct3d message.
I got a Lenovo Y410p several months ago, and installed The Walking Dead. It has always worked perfectly. My laptop screen is only 720p, but I hooked it up ot my HDTV today to play in 1080p. When I disconnected the HDMI cable, the game will no longer work. Whenever I try to start the game (from Steam) it says
Could not initialize direct3d.
Make sure you have the current video drivers and close any other applications that might be running. You will need a video card that supports at least pixel shader version 1.2.
Anything off the top of your head, I guarantee I've already tried. I ran as admin, restored all the graphics settings in Nvidia control panel to defaults (which it ran at), I tried the fix where you delete the prefs.prop file, COMPLETELY uninstalled the game, including deleting all registry files, all program files, all gamesaves, EVERYTHING. So far the only thing that has worked is when I uninstalled the Nvidia control panel drivers, but I don't want to uninstall those as I use them for everything else, and they've WORKED before.
I cannot stress how infuriating this is. I just want to play The Walking Dead and I do not understand why this will not work. I have all the most recent drivers and latest DirectX installed.
Could not initialize direct3d.
Make sure you have the current video drivers and close any other applications that might be running. You will need a video card that supports at least pixel shader version 1.2.
Anything off the top of your head, I guarantee I've already tried. I ran as admin, restored all the graphics settings in Nvidia control panel to defaults (which it ran at), I tried the fix where you delete the prefs.prop file, COMPLETELY uninstalled the game, including deleting all registry files, all program files, all gamesaves, EVERYTHING. So far the only thing that has worked is when I uninstalled the Nvidia control panel drivers, but I don't want to uninstall those as I use them for everything else, and they've WORKED before.
I cannot stress how infuriating this is. I just want to play The Walking Dead and I do not understand why this will not work. I have all the most recent drivers and latest DirectX installed.
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The settings are stored in the prefs.prop, but if you still have the steam cloud enabled for TWD, it will download the old profs.prop.
It should work if you connect your TV again and set the resolution back to 720p.
Alternatively you can disable steam cloud for TWD and delete the prefs.prop as you tried earlier, but then you will also lose access to your savegames.