could not initialize Direct3D :(

[Püloo Cthulhu]

when i start the game it says "preparing to launch" and then a white box apears saying the title above. it also says "make sure you have 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."


if anyone can help i would really like to hear from you, also if you have the same problem i would also like to know :)


thank you

[rparker197656]

i have the same problem

[Püloo Cthulhu]

good so it is not only me, if you manage to find out how to sort it please comment as i will do the same :)

[Jek Porkins]

same issue and I would love an answer to this.

[cynicalchups]

I had the same problem too. I fixed this problem. In my case,
You can find a installation folder by steam. maybe 'SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\The Walking Dead'. and click right mouse button on seleced 'WalkingDead101.exe' file.
And property setting you can use compatibility option to Windows 98/Windows Me.
It's done. maybe you will fix this problem.

[Püloo Cthulhu]

im away right now but when i get back home i will try and inform if it works or not, thanks :)

[Püloo Cthulhu]

wow, you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing :D. i but this on the forum thinking its worth a shot. i never thought it would work and BOOM! thank you so much :)

[KS | ♥GoSchnadi♥]

Yes it works... but i cant set it to the whole screen... just a small window :-(

[KS | ♥GoSchnadi♥]

Is that normal or can I change it somehow?
The Game crashed when i try to change it to the full screen

[Püloo Cthulhu]

its also windowed but ♥♥♥♥ it, its better than not working at all XD

[Jampine]

I have the same problem, but its gets a bit more complicated: when I try launching walking dead 101, it crashes because of the same reason.

[Püloo Cthulhu]

did you try what that guy told me to do in the comments above???

[𝙅𝙖𝙮]

EDIT for future people (sorry for gravedigging): set it to compatability win 98, launch it, adjust resolution, close, then set compatability to win 7 to achieve full screen.

[Panicz Pajonk]

Run in Windows 7 compatibility mode solved my issue on Windows 10.

[Jimky Kong]

So this happened to me tonight and I spent an hour figuring out how to fix it. I set my graphics resolution too high (higher than my monitor) and it crashed, leading to a "could not initialize d3d" error whenever I would launch. What I did first was follow other peoples' directions and run in compatibility with windows XP, which got it to launch but would make the game stutter really badly.

What I did to get it working again without compatibility settings was that I right clicked the game in my steam library and in the update tab I turned off "enable steam cloud synchronization", then I went into my computers document folder and inside the "Telltale Games" folder I deleted "The Walking Dead" completely. Now from what I believe I think its the prefs.prop file inside that controls this, but I'm not sure. Deleting the whole folder will kill your save, so be careful.

I THINK what happens is that even if you delete that folder and uninstall/reinstall, the game files re-synchronize with the steam cloud and redownload that prefs.prop file, causing a permanent crash error. This is a little inept considering that if the game crashes at all I guess it synchronizes with the steam cloud, even if the crash causes a save bricking error or (in my case) a game-bricking graphics option change.