TWD: Unofficial alternative PC/Mac episode download options

[BenTheWater]

OMG! It worked! Yeahhhhhhh! Thanks so much dude! Life saver!

[gecekusu]

Tried Episode 2 manual instructions for Mac, and it worked like a charm. Thank you, DjNDB!

[RexHunt]

So are Telltale just going to rely on this 'solution' and tick it off the 'customer support' list?

[Final Fall 0]

Bump.

This should honestly be stickied until they come up with an official solution. If they do.

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by Final Fall 0

This should honestly be stickied until they come up with an official solution. If they do.

Done.

[distortion]

Thanks so much for this. I'm sure it took a lot of effort on your part to come up with it, and we all appreciate it greatly. Especially considering you're only a volunteer, not even paid staff for Telltale.

[mrmojorisin]

This doesn't work for me, this is absolutely ridiculous how the game stops downloading at 99.5 percent. I want my money back from this garbage company, nobody cares once they get their money. The game doesn't work eh? "oh well that's their problem not ours, we got their money already"

[MattCFII]

The Python automatic download works for me but then it still tries to download the next episode even with the PC files in the Meta or Data folder with \walkingdead10* folders. Frustrating to know I have the files but can't get the game to recongize that they are there.

EDIT: Episode 3 will install, but 2 continues to try to download.

After install, do I need to keep the episode folders in the \Meta folder or just the \Data

[leftOfCenter]

So I buy this kewl game with a great episode one. But now I want to play episode 2.
Now here is the catch...follow a 50 step process to download. YES, I know I am exaggerating. But really! If I knew it would be such a hassle to download subsequent episodes and that it would take as much time to download as to play, I never would have.

Booo!!!

[james20150]

why cant they just sell the game w epidsodes 2 and 3 installed for the are out, as well as if we all need to download episodes 4 and 5 design a better launcher and download mnger in other words write an update frustrating is saying it lightly whats up with all these games here

[JordyLicht]

Well, I did the manual downloading thing and did a quick check to see if I could start episode 3. That worked just fine.
Skip to 2 weeks later (yesterday); I finally had some time to play episode 3, start up the game and episode 3 was back to "Get". Tried downloading it, but the whole app crashed. Tried downloading again, app crashed again at about 20%.

I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point.

[Kionu]

Well, I downloaded the files manually and it seemed to make a difference, but now I can only get one to "Install" whilst the other still loads to 99.5%. I dont know what else to do!

[JordyLicht]

So I guess I won't be able to play episode 3 ... ever?
Do the developers at Telltale know that there are a lot of problems with installing? Is there any word on a fix / patch / update?
Will there be a DVD release, so that I'll be able to play the game?

I'm really glad DjNDB visits the forum regularly, but are there any developers / IT employees from Telltale on the forum that can give us some advice? Or at least acknowledge the problems?

[Mediumchild]

First time I had downloaded the files and started the game, it seemed to work fine. But the second time I started the game it kept freezing right after clicking "continue". So I removed the files of episode 2 again and the game loaded up perfectly. But now I don't really know what to do. I downloaded the python file now to download the files again but automatically, not sure if that will make any difference though. Help :/

[Mediumchild]

Originally Posted by DjNDB

I don't know if it has any influence, but you can try if deleting the contents of
%userprofile%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead\SyncFs\Temp
helps, if available. That's where the game downloads the files before it copies them over.

That seemed to solve my problem! Episode 2 finally started up!

[mrmojorisin]

my mac is version 10.8.2 this python thing doesn't work for me

[JordyLicht]

I still haven't been able to play episode 3... Tried every known 'fix' I could find on the forums. Like I said, the manual download worked, until I relaunched the game. All of a sudden, episode 3 was back to GET. Clicked that, but the download has not been able to finish in the past weeks.
Even though the f**king gamefiles for episode 3 are already downloaded and put in the correct folder.

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by JordyLicht

All of a sudden, episode 3 was back to GET. Clicked that, but the download has not been able to finish in the past weeks.

I don't know why that's happening. If deleting the TWD temp files didn't help, my last idea is trying it again on a new Mac OS user account.
You can copy the game files from the old account, so you don't need to download them again, but don't copy any other files at first, to see if it works on a clean configuration without save files.

[JordyLicht]

I am also considering a reinstall of the game, but I have to be REALLY sure that I can just copy over the old savegames and they work.

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by JordyLicht

I am also considering a reinstall of the game, but I have to be REALLY sure that I can just copy over the old savegames and they work.

I don't know, but you can try if it works on the new account. If it does, it most likely will on the old one too.