So here you are.
You heard about all the accolades this adventure game received, and decided to take advantage of a Steam deal. After downloading all five episodes, you try to check out what all the fuss is about only to discover that the damn game doesn’t launch on your Windows 8 box. Well, here’s how you fix that.
Symptom
The Walking Dead does not launch on Windows 8.
and/or
The Walking Dead does not have controller support running under Windows 8.
The Fix
Download the “dinput8.dll” file and place it in the following folder:
<Steam directory>\steamapps\common\The Walking Dead\
And that’s it. The game should now launch with controller support.
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15 Responses
graylon
It worked thanks
brokenpavement
Thank you very much! I was finally able to get the game to launch.
dark
Thx a lot!!!!
Brian
For me my saves don’t seem to move on episode to episode.
For example, (SPOILERS) I saved Carly rather than Doug and in episode 2 on my save It says I’ve saved Doug. Will this work for that too?
Siddharth
Thats a coding issue. In that mission, whatever you do, the opposite happens. Its a Telltale Games’ code bug.
Cannily
Thanks man. I looked everywhere for a fix and here it is – works perfectly 😀
John Scott
When I search for that folder on my computer, it doesn’t come up!!!!
No_Style
steam directory = where Steam is installed.
Jackie Wright
what if you don’t have steam?
Somercy
This worked for me, thanks a bushel!
Raden
its work thanks man, now i can play 400 days
asdasdffasd
thanks it worked
Roger Goodman
Hey guys. I tried every single one of the possible solutions that I found on the web. The only way I was finally able to fix the crashing issue, controller issue, and game not starting, was to copy the dinput8.dll from my Windows 8 64-bit system folder into the Walking Dead folder under steamapps common. I can’t remember if it was the DLL from the SYSWOW64 folder or the normal system32 folder, because I tried them both and don’t remember in which order. However, one of them did work and I was able to play with no further issues!
Hope this helps someone. It’s definitely a time-consuming headache trying to track down the problem! 🙂
Zachary
This fix also works for another Telltale game, The Wolf Among Us.
Tommy,ai
Thanks for the fix