Mine don't work, even though they work just fine in Season 1, and the save file validator can't find them either. They're in C:\Users\ [USERNAME]\Documents\Telltale Games, right next to the Season 2 folder.
Okay, so when I fired up Season 2 it only detected the third save I had for Season 1. That was a playthrough where I was working through episode 1. All of my real progress is in Save 1 which is not being detected.
I stupidly deleted that Save 3 it could detect today in the hopes of fixing Season 2 but it didn't work and I now realize that having that still might have helped diagnose my save problem.
Oh and I don't know if this is related but for some reason when I launched Season 1 it said that Episode 2 wasn't installed. I clicked GET and percentage was there for a few seconds before suddenly saying it was installed.
Importing your savegames works fine for me.
There's no such thing as a save file validator. I have to manually analyze the output of the support tool in order to suggest what could help, so please try running it again and upload the resulting .zip.
Should the support tool not have created a .zip file after it showed the "Finished" message, please upload a screenshot of the support tool run and all files it has created up to that point.
Mine don't work, even though they work just fine in Season 1, and the save file validator can't find them either. They're in C:\Users\ [USERNA… moreME]\Documents\Telltale Games, right next to the Season 2 folder.
Since the validator won't work I uploaded my save folder, so here it is:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b6kpvt
There's no complete playthrough in the savegame folder
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Actually the files are so old, that I believe something must be wrong with your season 1 installation. If the registry key is missing, it saves to a folder named GameData, which is happening in your case.
I suggest you remove the contents of this savegame folder:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Then reinstall season 1 to make sure it's properly installed.
Then move the content of
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\GameData
to
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
And start episode 1 to see if the savegame shows up.
Since you said you deleted your savegame though, you can take a look at this folder, which looks like it could be a backup you once made:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\TTGB\GameData
If that's the case, use the contents of it instead of the other gamedata folder in the process i described earlier.
Okay, so when I fired up Season 2 it only detected the third save I had for Season 1. That was a playthrough where I was working through episo… morede 1. All of my real progress is in Save 1 which is not being detected.
I stupidly deleted that Save 3 it could detect today in the hopes of fixing Season 2 but it didn't work and I now realize that having that still might have helped diagnose my save problem.
Oh and I don't know if this is related but for some reason when I launched Season 1 it said that Episode 2 wasn't installed. I clicked GET and percentage was there for a few seconds before suddenly saying it was installed.
Anyway, here's the Support Tool Data: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rlxkes
Hi,
I've completed season 1 a long time ago ..
And a few days ago I had to re-install windows (8) so before doing so I backed up the save files (copied the entire Telltale Games folder from my documents) and after installing windows I restored the folder .. then I played the 400 days DLC .. completed it .. and it all was fine ..
now season 2 can't detect the save .. (because the username is different as the FAQ says .. )
what should I do now ? please help .. I don't want to play the entire season one again
thanks
Hi,
I've completed season 1 a long time ago ..
And a few days ago I had to re-install windows (8) so before doing so I backed up the save fi… moreles (copied the entire Telltale Games folder from my documents) and after installing windows I restored the folder .. then I played the 400 days DLC .. completed it .. and it all was fine ..
now season 2 can't detect the save .. (because the username is different as the FAQ says .. )
what should I do now ? please help .. I don't want to play the entire season one again
thanks
I had another backup before playing "400 Days" DLC .. I restored it to My documents folder .. and Season two detected it !
I'll play the DLC again (there was some choices I didn't like anyways ) then play season two ..
thanks and sorry for the inconvenience
The spanish lines in that screenshot say that the prefs.prop file can't be found, that there are no available instances of the crash events, and that there's no available key or registry value for the install location.
Importing your savegames works fine for me.
There's no such thing as a save file validator. I have to manually analyze the output of the supp… moreort tool in order to suggest what could help, so please try running it again and upload the resulting .zip.
Should the support tool not have created a .zip file after it showed the "Finished" message, please upload a screenshot of the support tool run and all files it has created up to that point.
Please read this FAQ
which explains how the savegame import is supposed to work. You need to start a new game in season 2 and it should ask you to import your saves.
Alright, here goes:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0az4vx
http://i.imgur.com/b87F2O3.png
The spanish lines in that screenshot say that t… morehe prefs.prop file can't be found, that there are no available instances of the crash events, and that there's no available key or registry value for the install location.
Thanks for your help.
Everything looks fine.
Please read this FAQ
which explains how the savegame import is supposed to work. You need to start a new game in season 2 and it should ask you to import your saves.
There's no complete playthrough in the savegame folder
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Actually the files are so old… more, that I believe something must be wrong with your season 1 installation. If the registry key is missing, it saves to a folder named GameData, which is happening in your case.
I suggest you remove the contents of this savegame folder:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Then reinstall season 1 to make sure it's properly installed.
Then move the content of
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\GameData
to
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
And start episode 1 to see if the savegame shows up.
Since you said you deleted your savegame though, you can take a look at this folder, which looks like it could be a backup you once made:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\TTGB\GameData
If that's the case, use the contents of it instead of the other gamedata folder in the process i described earlier.
Ok, so I accidentally installed Season 1 again but I kept my saved data... however, now season 1 doesn't recognize any saved data, nor does season 2. It would be nice if this could be fixed. I can see all the data in the folder...
Nevermind this. I found a backup I made for whatever reason that had a save from just after episode 5. Just going to play through 400 days again and move on.
Ok, so I accidentally installed Season 1 again but I kept my saved data... however, now season 1 doesn't recognize any saved data, nor does se… moreason 2. It would be nice if this could be fixed. I can see all the data in the folder...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5u83c6
Thanks for the help!
Please 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).
please rename the original savegame folder
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
to anything else.
Then copy the "The Walking Dead" folder from
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\
to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\
That should be enough for season 2 to find your savegames. I suggest you also disable compatibility mode for season 1 though to avoid future problems.
Please check the properties of the Steam.exe, your Steam icons, and the games .exe files, and disable any compatibility mode settings.
Sometimes compatibility mode is checked, but is grayed out. Then you have to click on "Change settings for all users" at the bottom to disable the checkbox.
Afterwards try if the game works.
If you made absolutely sure, that the method mentioned above didn't work to disable it, you can try disabling it in the registry. Then restart the computer and try running the game again.
Hey, when I try to load my save files it says I've only completed up to Episode 2, when I've actually completed up to 400 days. When playing Season 1 it reads all the save files correctly and shows all of my decisions. I seem to remember having issues with Season 1, but I can't remember which specific episode and how I got around it. I think I may have in fact restarted. Thanks for the help.
ups sorry, the answer are:
1.- I dont think i had any problems with saves in the past.
2.- Never re installed the game
3.- I had to check it a few times, the only scene that its not correct, its when i choose to kill the saint john brother with the fork, I DID KILLED HIM, but the videoclips says, NOPE
Did you have any savegame issues in the past?
Did you reinstall the game at some point?
Is there any specific choice that's clearly visible in the stats, but is shown differently in the "previously on" clip?
ups sorry, the answer are:
1.- I dont think i had any problems with saves in the past.
2.- Never re installed the game
3.- I had to check i… moret a few times, the only scene that its not correct, its when i choose to kill the saint john brother with the fork, I DID KILLED HIM, but the videoclips says, NOPE
Hey, when I try to load my save files it says I've only completed up to Episode 2, when I've actually completed up to 400 days. When playing S… moreeason 1 it reads all the save files correctly and shows all of my decisions. I seem to remember having issues with Season 1, but I can't remember which specific episode and how I got around it. I think I may have in fact restarted. Thanks for the help.
Here's the link. http://www.sendspace.com/file/emlgyf
As a side note I believe I've uninstalled TWD1 since completing it (not certain though) and then re-installed it on a different hard drive (B:). I can see the save file and prefs.prop in (C:). I have not run the game in compatibility mode. I have completed TWD1 completely with 400days. I used to have a problem with S1 E2 because it didn't save my choice but I can't remember if I just started over from E1 to fix it.
It doesn't look good. The prefs.prop in the savegame folder is too small to be valid for a complete playthrough.
If you have any backup of it, try restoring it.
Otherwise please 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 try the "restore previous version" feature (right click, "properties", "restore previous version") on the savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ). If there are multiple versions try restoring each of them starting with the latest. If the prefs.prop is much bigger than 10KB chances are best it's the correct set of savefiles.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ql2cas
As a side note I believe I've uninstalled TWD1 since completing it (not certain though) and then re-in… morestalled it on a different hard drive (B:). I can see the save file and prefs.prop in (C:). I have not run the game in compatibility mode. I have completed TWD1 completely with 400days. I used to have a problem with S1 E2 because it didn't save my choice but I can't remember if I just started over from E1 to fix it.
Unfortunately it doesn't have any previous versions so I'm guessing that I*m going to have to play TWD1 again... Well thanks for your help anyways. Any advice on how to prevent this from happening again?
I'm also guessing there isn't any "official" way I could just create/edit files that have those notable decisions.
Example to make my idea a bit more clear:
BEGIN SPOILERS
Doug dies T / [F]
as in Doug wont die. END SPOILERS
I'm guessing you don't know about that unless you're a dev. (I'm assuming it all depends on the prefs.prop file) Could I download someones prefs.prop file with the choices I want?
It doesn't look good. The prefs.prop in the savegame folder is too small to be valid for a complete playthrough.
If you have any backup of … moreit, try restoring it.
Otherwise please 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 try the "restore previous version" feature (right click, "properties", "restore previous version") on the savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ). If there are multiple versions try restoring each of them starting with the latest. If the prefs.prop is much bigger than 10KB chances are best it's the correct set of savefiles.
You can check the stats for each episode and hopefully find something you are okay with.
If you decide to play through it again, there is a method that can prevent at least the multiple prefs.prop issues that can happen, but it is not tested yet (since it requires an entire playthrough of course). It should work in theory and If you decide to do so I'll try to make it easy to use.
Yeah, I'll probably play it through on the weekend. Thank you, you've done more than enough. I hope you get a medal of some sorts to reward for being patient and helpful with people who are having problems. Pretty much any method to prevent the problems I'm willing to take.
Sadly there's no savegame generator and since I'm not TTG staff I don't have access to documentation to create one.
You can download and us… moree other peoples save files. Some users uploaded some recently, I've compiled a list of what i could find.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkais3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yk1ftf
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0f689x
You can check the stats for each episode and hopefully find something you are okay with.
If you decide to play through it again, there is a method that can prevent at least the multiple prefs.prop issues that can happen, but it is not tested yet (since it requires an entire playthrough of course). It should work in theory and If you decide to do so I'll try to make it easy to use.
Alright, I spent quite some time making it as safe to use as I could. It's tailored to your system, so it's not meant to be used by anybody else without modifications. I tried to make it generic at first, but It's just safer this way. If anyone else using the steam version is interested, let me know and include support tool data for the adaptions.
Here's how it works.
Download and unzip this file. It contains a batch file. Right click the batch file and select "run as administrator" each time you start the game.
If you run it normally instead, the protection is not there.
To be safe it's best to also make a backup copy of your savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ) after each episode you played.
Please keep me updated as to how it works.
Technical background:
The batch file will create symlinks from the locations where prefs.prop files are sometimes created to the prefs.prop in the savegame folder, to prevent this bug. This way you should not run into the multiple prefs.prop bug during your playthrough, which is the cause of most savegame issues.
It then runs the game and afterwards deletes the symlinks again. It's important not to close the black command window (unless it says so), because then the links are not deleted and future runs will fail. That's a safety measure and requires manual intervention to get out of.
Making the symlinks permanent would have been much easier, but that would break if there are multiple windows user accounts playing the game.
Another possible issue is the prefs.prop being corrupted if the game crashes. It doesn't mitigate that. That's why you should also backup the savegame folder.
Yeah, I'll probably play it through on the weekend. Thank you, you've done more than enough. I hope you get a medal of some sorts to reward fo… morer being patient and helpful with people who are having problems. Pretty much any method to prevent the problems I'm willing to take.
Thank you again.
My issue is that the save games are showing up fine but when it comes to seeing the "previously on the walking dead" flashbacks, it shows inco… morerrect decisions. Is this an issue with my save game files which can be fixed by playing through the entire first season over again from a clean install? Or is it a bug on Telltale's end? I can replay the first season but I'd like to be sure it's not a waste of time first.
Unfortunately I don't think there's really a fix. Other people have had the same problem when killing only Danny. I've tested it out and it shows Danny being spared if you leave either of them alive. The only way for the save import to make sense in the flashback is if you kill both of them (shows Danny being killed), spare both of them (shows Danny being spared) or if you spare Danny and kill Andy (shows Danny being spared). He is only shown killed if you kill both of them. It sucks and isn't really the way I wanted to play but I killed both of them just so it would make sense.
Did you play the season 1 in win95 or win98/me compatibility mode?
If so, please rename the original savegame folder
%USERPROFILE%\Documen… morets\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
to anything else.
Then copy the "The Walking Dead" folder from
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\
to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\
Please follow the instructions to run the TWD Support Tool and post the download link to the resulting "TWD_support_data_pc.zip" or "TWD_support_data_mac.zip" to your next reply in this thread.
It's a bit convoluted, but not lost. Make backup of all relevant folders you will change below before starting.
Please 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 delete the contents of
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead Season Two\
Finally copy the contents of
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Telltale Games
to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
Now you should also get rid of that horrible compatibility mode, so the games run properly in the future.
Please check the properties of the Steam.exe, and the games .exe files, and disable any compatibility mode and "run as admin" settings.
Sometimes compatibility mode is checked, but is grayed out. Then you have to click on "Change settings for all users" at the bottom to disable the checkbox.
Afterwards try if the game works.
If the method mentioned above didn't work, you can try disabling it in the registry. Then restart the computer and try running the game again.
It looks like you somehow overwrote the prefs.prop in the S1 savegame folder by copyiing S2 savegames into it.
Please disable steam cloud for TWD S1 (In Steam, right click TWD and select "properties". Open the tab "updates" and remove the checkbox from "Enable Steam cloud synchronization for TWD").
Then try the "restore previous version" feature (right click, "properties", "restore previous version") on the savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ). If there are multiple versions try restoring each of them starting with the latest. If the prefs.prop is much bigger than 10KB chances are best it's the correct set of savefiles.
I bought Season1 and 400days via Steam. Season 2 via your Website. My Season1/ 400day Saves are not found.
I used win98/winME compatibility mode after I had to start over when my savegames were gone after Season1 Episode2.
I ziped the C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Telltale Games folder for backup after finishing 400Days.
Today I realised that there are more recent saves in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead. I copied them to C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Telltale. But the saves are still not found when launching Episode2.
I can't load my Season1 saves via Steam. This I don't understand, because I haven't touched Walking Dead installation or saves since playing 400days when everything worked fine. And the windows installation is over 2 years old...
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Mine don't work, even though they work just fine in Season 1, and the save file validator can't find them either. They're in C:\Users\ [USERNAME]\Documents\Telltale Games, right next to the Season 2 folder.
Since the validator won't work I uploaded my save folder, so here it is:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b6kpvt
Okay, so when I fired up Season 2 it only detected the third save I had for Season 1. That was a playthrough where I was working through episode 1. All of my real progress is in Save 1 which is not being detected.
I stupidly deleted that Save 3 it could detect today in the hopes of fixing Season 2 but it didn't work and I now realize that having that still might have helped diagnose my save problem.
Oh and I don't know if this is related but for some reason when I launched Season 1 it said that Episode 2 wasn't installed. I clicked GET and percentage was there for a few seconds before suddenly saying it was installed.
Anyway, here's the Support Tool Data: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rlxkes
Importing your savegames works fine for me.
There's no such thing as a save file validator. I have to manually analyze the output of the support tool in order to suggest what could help, so please try running it again and upload the resulting .zip.
Should the support tool not have created a .zip file after it showed the "Finished" message, please upload a screenshot of the support tool run and all files it has created up to that point.
There's no complete playthrough in the savegame folder
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Actually the files are so old, that I believe something must be wrong with your season 1 installation. If the registry key is missing, it saves to a folder named GameData, which is happening in your case.
I suggest you remove the contents of this savegame folder:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Then reinstall season 1 to make sure it's properly installed.
Then move the content of
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\GameData
to
C:\Users\tx\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
And start episode 1 to see if the savegame shows up.
Since you said you deleted your savegame though, you can take a look at this folder, which looks like it could be a backup you once made:
C:\Users\tx\Documents\TTGB\GameData
If that's the case, use the contents of it instead of the other gamedata folder in the process i described earlier.
Hi,
I've completed season 1 a long time ago ..
And a few days ago I had to re-install windows (8) so before doing so I backed up the save files (copied the entire Telltale Games folder from my documents) and after installing windows I restored the folder .. then I played the 400 days DLC .. completed it .. and it all was fine ..
now season 2 can't detect the save .. (because the username is different as the FAQ says .. )
what should I do now ? please help .. I don't want to play the entire season one again
thanks
Please post the support tool information as requested in my first post.
Here
http://www.multiupload.nl/8PFOZ2LLVZ
I had another backup before playing "400 Days" DLC .. I restored it to My documents folder .. and Season two detected it !
) then play season two ..
I'll play the DLC again (there was some choices I didn't like anyways
thanks and sorry for the inconvenience
Alright, here goes:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0az4vx
http://i.imgur.com/b87F2O3.png
The spanish lines in that screenshot say that the prefs.prop file can't be found, that there are no available instances of the crash events, and that there's no available key or registry value for the install location.
Thanks for your help.
Everything looks fine.
Please read this FAQ
which explains how the savegame import is supposed to work. You need to start a new game in season 2 and it should ask you to import your saves.
Ugh, I'm an idiot. I assumed it'd detect the saves the moment you opened the game, not after you start the game.
Sorry for wasting your time
Fantastic, worked like a charm! Thanks! =D
Ok, so I accidentally installed Season 1 again but I kept my saved data... however, now season 1 doesn't recognize any saved data, nor does season 2. It would be nice if this could be fixed. I can see all the data in the folder...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5u83c6
Thanks for the help!
Nevermind this. I found a backup I made for whatever reason that had a save from just after episode 5. Just going to play through 400 days again and move on.
Thanks
My problem is, my saves can't detect 400 days even though I just completed it just now
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9hevwj
You used an old version of the support tool. Please run the latest one.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yxjp9w
It looks pretty messed up.
Where did you get the games?
Here's mine. Still shows stats when i load it in season 1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2bgkgr
Your season 1 is running in compatibility mode.
Please 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).
please rename the original savegame folder
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
to anything else.
Then copy the "The Walking Dead" folder from
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\
to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\
That should be enough for season 2 to find your savegames. I suggest you also disable compatibility mode for season 1 though to avoid future problems.
Please check the properties of the Steam.exe, your Steam icons, and the games .exe files, and disable any compatibility mode settings.
Sometimes compatibility mode is checked, but is grayed out. Then you have to click on "Change settings for all users" at the bottom to disable the checkbox.
Afterwards try if the game works.
If you made absolutely sure, that the method mentioned above didn't work to disable it, you can try disabling it in the registry. Then restart the computer and try running the game again.
Hey, when I try to load my save files it says I've only completed up to Episode 2, when I've actually completed up to 400 days. When playing Season 1 it reads all the save files correctly and shows all of my decisions. I seem to remember having issues with Season 1, but I can't remember which specific episode and how I got around it. I think I may have in fact restarted. Thanks for the help.
Here's the link. http://www.sendspace.com/file/emlgyf
ups sorry, the answer are:
1.- I dont think i had any problems with saves in the past.
2.- Never re installed the game
3.- I had to check it a few times, the only scene that its not correct, its when i choose to kill the saint john brother with the fork, I DID KILLED HIM, but the videoclips says, NOPE
That seems to be a common issue that's being looked into. There's another thread about it, that I can't find at the moment.
What I wrote here should work.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ql2cas
As a side note I believe I've uninstalled TWD1 since completing it (not certain though) and then re-installed it on a different hard drive (B:). I can see the save file and prefs.prop in (C:). I have not run the game in compatibility mode. I have completed TWD1 completely with 400days. I used to have a problem with S1 E2 because it didn't save my choice but I can't remember if I just started over from E1 to fix it.
It doesn't look good. The prefs.prop in the savegame folder is too small to be valid for a complete playthrough.
If you have any backup of it, try restoring it.
Otherwise please 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 try the "restore previous version" feature (right click, "properties", "restore previous version") on the savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ). If there are multiple versions try restoring each of them starting with the latest. If the prefs.prop is much bigger than 10KB chances are best it's the correct set of savefiles.
Unfortunately it doesn't have any previous versions so I'm guessing that I*m going to have to play TWD1 again... Well thanks for your help anyways. Any advice on how to prevent this from happening again?
I'm also guessing there isn't any "official" way I could just create/edit files that have those notable decisions.
Example to make my idea a bit more clear:
BEGIN SPOILERS
Doug dies T / [F]
as in Doug wont die.
END SPOILERS
I'm guessing you don't know about that unless you're a dev. (I'm assuming it all depends on the prefs.prop file) Could I download someones prefs.prop file with the choices I want?
Anyways thanks for help again.
Sadly there's no savegame generator and since I'm not TTG staff I don't have access to documentation to create one.
You can download and use other peoples save files. Some users uploaded some recently, I've compiled a list of what i could find.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkais3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yk1ftf
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0f689x
You can check the stats for each episode and hopefully find something you are okay with.
If you decide to play through it again, there is a method that can prevent at least the multiple prefs.prop issues that can happen, but it is not tested yet (since it requires an entire playthrough of course). It should work in theory and If you decide to do so I'll try to make it easy to use.
Yeah, I'll probably play it through on the weekend. Thank you, you've done more than enough. I hope you get a medal of some sorts to reward for being patient and helpful with people who are having problems. Pretty much any method to prevent the problems I'm willing to take.
Thank you again.
Alright, I spent quite some time making it as safe to use as I could. It's tailored to your system, so it's not meant to be used by anybody else without modifications. I tried to make it generic at first, but It's just safer this way. If anyone else using the steam version is interested, let me know and include support tool data for the adaptions.
Here's how it works.
Download and unzip this file. It contains a batch file. Right click the batch file and select "run as administrator" each time you start the game.
If you run it normally instead, the protection is not there.
To be safe it's best to also make a backup copy of your savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ) after each episode you played.
Please keep me updated as to how it works.
Technical background:
The batch file will create symlinks from the locations where prefs.prop files are sometimes created to the prefs.prop in the savegame folder, to prevent this bug. This way you should not run into the multiple prefs.prop bug during your playthrough, which is the cause of most savegame issues.
It then runs the game and afterwards deletes the symlinks again. It's important not to close the black command window (unless it says so), because then the links are not deleted and future runs will fail. That's a safety measure and requires manual intervention to get out of.
Making the symlinks permanent would have been much easier, but that would break if there are multiple windows user accounts playing the game.
Another possible issue is the prefs.prop being corrupted if the game crashes. It doesn't mitigate that. That's why you should also backup the savegame folder.
Am having the EXACT same issue, would love to hear an answer on this.
Unfortunately I don't think there's really a fix. Other people have had the same problem when killing only Danny. I've tested it out and it shows Danny being spared if you leave either of them alive. The only way for the save import to make sense in the flashback is if you kill both of them (shows Danny being killed), spare both of them (shows Danny being spared) or if you spare Danny and kill Andy (shows Danny being spared). He is only shown killed if you kill both of them. It sucks and isn't really the way I wanted to play but I killed both of them just so it would make sense.
This did not work for me. Should i remove the renamed Walking Dead Folder?
I don't know. It depends.
Please follow the instructions to run the TWD Support Tool and post the download link to the resulting "TWD_support_data_pc.zip" or "TWD_support_data_mac.zip" to your next reply in this thread.
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Link. I already did everything else suggested to fix this.
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It's a bit convoluted, but not lost. Make backup of all relevant folders you will change below before starting.
Please 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 delete the contents of
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead Season Two\
Finally copy the contents of
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Telltale Games
to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\
Now you should also get rid of that horrible compatibility mode, so the games run properly in the future.
Please check the properties of the Steam.exe, and the games .exe files, and disable any compatibility mode and "run as admin" settings.
Sometimes compatibility mode is checked, but is grayed out. Then you have to click on "Change settings for all users" at the bottom to disable the checkbox.
Afterwards try if the game works.
If the method mentioned above didn't work, you can try disabling it in the registry. Then restart the computer and try running the game again.
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Help please
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It looks like you somehow overwrote the prefs.prop in the S1 savegame folder by copyiing S2 savegames into it.
Please disable steam cloud for TWD S1 (In Steam, right click TWD and select "properties". Open the tab "updates" and remove the checkbox from "Enable Steam cloud synchronization for TWD").
Then try the "restore previous version" feature (right click, "properties", "restore previous version") on the savegame folder ( %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead ). If there are multiple versions try restoring each of them starting with the latest. If the prefs.prop is much bigger than 10KB chances are best it's the correct set of savefiles.
Hello,
I bought Season1 and 400days via Steam. Season 2 via your Website. My Season1/ 400day Saves are not found.
I used win98/winME compatibility mode after I had to start over when my savegames were gone after Season1 Episode2.
I ziped the C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Telltale Games folder for backup after finishing 400Days.
Today I realised that there are more recent saves in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead. I copied them to C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Telltale. But the saves are still not found when launching Episode2.
I can't load my Season1 saves via Steam. This I don't understand, because I haven't touched Walking Dead installation or saves since playing 400days when everything worked fine. And the windows installation is over 2 years old...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/84yxfe
(I restored the original C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead Folder)
Please help me. I don't want to play with a random Clem...
Thanks in advance
Thomas