Oculus Workaround: Walking Dead Saints and Sinners

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When do I need this:
If you're playing Walking Dead Saints and Sinners (WDSS) using an Oculus headset and the Kat Walk, you'll need to do this.

The Problem:
The Kat Walk works by integrating with SteamVR. It overrides the thumb controller in SteamVR to move the player when running on the Kat Walk.

WDSS forces Oculus headsets to use the Oculus SDK to run. This means the Kat Walk can't override the thumb controller.

This workaround stops WDSS from detecting the Oculus SDK, forcing it to use SteamVR.

You then need to change some game settings to display/map the Oculus controllers correctly in game.

The Workaround:
1. Set the game executable to use Windows 7 Compatibility mode

You need to find the game executable. Normally somewhere like: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\TWDSaintsAndSinners\TWD.exe right-click > Properties

Select the compatibility tab

check 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' then select 'Windows 7' from the list below.

2. Change the game settings to allow oculus to use SteamVRThen you need to edit the 'GameUserSettings.ini' file at Change the setting bEnableOculusSteamVR to True

Then change the default controller configs for the touch controller.

3. Change the controller bindings for the Oculus Touch:

Go to the SteamVRBindings directory in your game folder: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\TWDSaintsAndSinners\TWD\Config\SteamVRBindings Rename the oculus_touch.json file to oculus_touch_backup.json

Copy and rename the oculus_touch_TWD.json to oculus_touch.json

4. Change the KAT Gateway to "Global Mode"

With this done, the game won't be detected by the Kat Gateway 'Turbo Mode'.

You need to change the Kat Gateway to use 'Global Mode' and manually set the game settings.