Modding is here! ruclips.net/video/7XqHeqtisOo/видео.html At least for scripts, which allows us to create... lots of things! From fishing (shown in the video) to a first person camera to anything else you can think of. 2024 Edit: This guide is still accurate, however vsync_interval has been changed -to vsync_fps- to framerate_limit (they changed it twice lol), and now you can just put your desired framerate in :)
@@Zaroff91 You're either using an out of date version of Xenia, or it has changed names yet again. The game will crash with the patch if you're not using the GoTY version of the game.
My man, thanks for this handy video. I never owned a Xbox360 in my life and after years of Fable TLC/Anniversary and 3 playtroughs, I can finally play Fable II for the first time in my life :)
@@hannibalking5028 i have the same situations - many times played fable 1 and 3 but fable 2 only played a bit at friend's house xD. So will try soon on emulator to play Fable 2 properly finally.
So happy for you dude. I am just now playing TLC after having grown up on Fable 2 (one of my favourite games of all time) and 3 on Xbox. I had a similar experience with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which I was never able to play on console or emulator until the remaster was emulatable.
Dyes work if you: 1.) set read back resolve to true. save changes 2.) set your X and Y axis to 1. save changes. (Dyes only show in 720p, nothing above for some reason) 3.) Enter the game, apply the dye of your choice. (I dyed my hair blonde to at least get the good/pure hair morph affect.) AND SAVE!!!!!! 4.) Revert read back resolve to false and the x and y axis to 2. or w.e you use. save changes 5.) Enter the game. Profit.
This is pretty cool, I've never played fable II, been waiting past couple of years for xenia and the patches to get this good. Finally I can play the whole trilogy in order.
i played first 2-3hours in my friends house back in 2008. amazing game already in the first hours. i keep waiting for PC version but its cool we can emulate it
Played Fable 2 on Xenia around October 2022 with a I think specialized build and found this one on a potential replay. Can confirm that disabling the texture morphing patch, enabling readback resolve and applying whatever cosmetic you want (in my case makeup) and changing everything back works. I was even able to change the makeup without being presented with a broken face texture, which is neat. EDIT: Turns out I forgot to switch readback off, broken face texture came back as I first expected. Can't say it works guaranteed.
Man, this is a dream come true. My Xbox 360 has a hard time running for more than half an hour currently due to a power supply issue, so it's nice that I can finally get back to playing Fable 2. It's mind boggling that it's the only Fable to not have a proper port of any kind to PC, especially since before Fable 2 released they had the flash games to promote the game. I subscribed, especially out of interest for any future patches and content. I've been keeping an eye on Xenia for what feels like ever.
it works flawlessly except for a few stutters that fixed itself in the childhood. played until the part where you talk to Abbot nonstop with no crashed. Thank you for letting me relive my childhood
Wild that there's been this much development on getting Fable 2 working since I last looked into it. Hopefully Fable 4 does well enough to get a Fable 2 remaster. Thanks for the video, very informative and no clickbait!
Thank you for this guide, I've had a longing to replay this game for quite a while, and I'm enjoying it a lot, the advantages of emulation really help bring the childhood fantasy back. I'd like to contribute a little bit. To me it felt like the crashes happening at relatively predictable times had to mean they were performance related. I crashed, for example, when first entering new areas and fighting for the first time. In my last session before this comment, I tried going to the Task Administrator, Details, and setting Xenia's priority to just under Real Time. I've had the game running for 3 hours with no crashing, through the Balverine lair and the Crucible + mopping up the time sensitive quests. If anyone is having trouble with crashing, try this!
Thank you so much for this, this game means so much for me, back when I was a kid my friend had a xbox360 and we used to play fable 2 all the time, so replaying it feels unreal. For anyone interested the game runs ok with a Rx570 4GB and a Ryzen 5 2600
Thank you sooo much for this tutorial! I completed main quest of Fable II yesterday, thanks to you! There were a lot of crashes (like 5-7 each stream), but other than that everything worked pretty fine.
He can't say it without his channel getting nuked, but the "legal" ways being a pain, costing an insane amount of money, and leaving you with subpar game versions are largely inconsequential when you're a Google search away from the better-than-legal ways of getting the best version.
just wanted to say thank you this is the only way to play fable 2 and now I can play it with 60fps with a faster menu better resolution and the best is having my character actually show up and no more weird flickering. Just need to remember to back up my saves just in case. Thank you for the hard work
the further you get into the game, and the stronger your spells get, are going to crash the game more often. Also, people with amd gpu's are plagued with so many more crashes. It's very annoying, but haven't had any issues with my save getting corrupted but I still back up saves while the game is running and rename them as well so I can keep track. Always save after you've done a very annoying puzzle or something lol. I'm currently trying to find a good driver and xenia canary version that can work well with my terribly optimized amd gpu so it doesnt crash so much
I went and modified each patch version of the game and saved it properly but the game wont recognize the patch, is there some other way to connect the patches to the game or is my version of the game messed up. like the game runs but the patches wont go through. plz any recommendations..?
And for those who have been facing issues with patches not loading even after applying them from "false" to "true"; I don't know why, but an older version of Xenia Canary can load the patches while the newer one cannot. I was facing the same issue loading patches on the latest version of Xenia Canary. I kind of thought that I would check an older version and see how that works out. And it worked!
It's an utter travesty this was never ported to PC properly and fans have to make their own programs and patches just to play the game they love. I'm also still waiting for bloodborne PC with baited breath... Anyways great video thanks I must try this! Been wanting to play F2 for years now but I'm not buying an OG xbox just for one game lol. Do you think it work on a gtx1060?
it will work with a gtx 1060, but you will be playing with low fps, so just keep the 60 fps patch disabled, as it causes some issues in some parts of the game
Thanks G - I was pleasantly surprised to get this running smoothly on Linux via Lutris. Everything I was reading on forums were saying it wasn't possible
Everything is working great, thank you. Although, i have noticed when increasing the draw resolution scale there seems to be some texture issue when entering any sort of menu, this seems to happen fairly often and is quite jarring, so its making me hesitant to increase the resolution despite the game looking so much better at 1440p. The strobing effect was fixed with the addition to the patch that you recommended, but this texture issue seems to be persistent. It only happens for a second or two and it does fix itself, but it just looks like the textures are corrupted for a split second but it is quite noticeable. Any tips or recommended fixes that you know of? Thanks! :)
Afraid I have nothing for that. I'm not sure it will ever be fixed if it's specifically caused by upscaling. Even if Xenia is in a perfect state it's not the emulators problem, rather it's just a side effect of upscaling, and I have no idea where I'd start to make a patch unfortunately.
Great instruction, thanks a lot for the info! Your patches are wild One note: there is a Russian localization for Fable II - Game of the year edition that has version v1.2, but it actually has hash of "your" 10.1 version, and all your patches are compatible with it
Hi! You did not find any issues while playing? I did everything from the guide but I still have strobing light issue from the dog. Are there any benefits while using the v.1.2 of the game? Thanks in advance.
@@agentsmith6161 yes, the dog still explodes with polygons, so you need to change its breed with a potion (in-game feature, here is an instruction in the video) From what I noticed, the game version is actually 10.1, but for some strange reason it is marked as 1.2, probably due to localization process
@@Nurgul626 Got it! I'm gonna change the dog's breed! But afterwards everything is playing perfect? I'm aware about the tattoos and dyes issues. I mean besides those, everything is ok? PS: Is there a way I can play this at more then 600p without issues? My pc cannot handle that 2x2 or 1x2 draw setting. I was thinking about 1080p. Thanks for taking the time to reply!!
@@agentsmith6161 I also had to play at pretty low resolution on my 2060 with Ryzen 3600, so can't help here Apart from the dog, everything else is very consistent. I had no crashes, but I backed up my saves every time I saved, just in case
@@Nurgul626 Got it! Thanks man! Il give it go! I see that MSAA is making things a lot better even at 600p res. Il use that and Reshade for a bit of sharpening. That CAS sharpening from Xenia is not working ok. Have a great day!
Thank you so much Guy! I tried to play Fable 2 on xcloud and too me it was unplayable with 600mgbs download speed due to how laggy and blurry the game was. If you play on Xenia it's a great experience after you install Guy's patches. The only thing I can is that I had a scare where my save file corrupted because the game crashed while I was saving and had played multiple hours before backing it up like Guy said. Luckily you can use your chapter save as your main save and not lose all of your progress. I would highly recommend having your backup save window, and game file window open, and almost any time you save or do something tedious in the game, just copy your file over. Still an amazing experience and have been enjoying it.
you just earned your self a sub been telling my son about the fable games hes played fable 1 i want him to play fable 2 its too laggy on xcloud but on xenia its smooth next weekend now when hes at mine we will both play fable 2.
Excellent! The input lags so bad on just this game from Xbox. I cant recreate the problem on another game. Support wasnt helpful. I can't do any jobs properly. Dreams of being a blacksmith doa lol You're being a savior over here
It works!! Thank you Guy, I've been dreaming of playing my favorite childhood game for years; and Cloud Gaming is unfortunately not available in my country. Although I do still get the occasional visual or audio bug, the game runs smoother than I expected and am able to play for what seems like a decent while without any major issues. I did notice, although I do have the [Patches Applied] message, my dog will still have some visual artifacts in some scenes: the part of the screen the dog occupied when the guards come to pick you up and take you to the castle had a lot of blue lines running up and down. I'm not sure if that means I did something wrong, but if not, it's far from a deal-breaker. It will probably either disappear in the next scene or possibly if I save and reload the game. Thanks again!
Just finished the first one for the first time since I was a kid, and I’ve never played 2 ! I was able to get 3 from g2a and redeem it on steam, but had to do some fancy footwork in the game files to get it to run (capped at 30😔) I’m sooo excited to get home and finally get my mitts on this game
Great and comprehensive tutorial. I really thought of playing Fable 2 via streaming, but the potential input lag made me reconsider and take some time to configure the emulation. And here I have a problem: after applying fixes and patches the game works fine most of the time apart from an occasional crash or major freeze, but the dog's model gets really, REALLY glitchy after entering the Bower Lake Tomb, similarly to the strobe effect that the aforementioned fixes should take care of + getting transparent in some cases (the glitch appear always after entering a new area). Did I do something wrong? I have enabled the morph patch and disabled the readback resolve (had to rearrange it after finishing childhood, since both the dog and Sparrow were completely black)
To be perfectly fair, I played the game on my step siblings Xbox 360 back in the day and it crashed a lot on its own native system. Doesn't seem like too big a deal in the face of that.
Is it required to have a controller plugged into the PC to play Fable 2 this way, or can the buttons and joysticks be mapped to keyboard + mouse inputs?
You can use a keyboard but not a mouse, so stick movement will be bound to keys. You can remap these keys but you need to figure out the keycodes and put them in a text file. There is a mousehook fork for Xenia but it only supports several games right now, and Fable 2 isn't one of them (yet). It could be fun to try and add support for it, but a challenge for sure.
Your gameplay looks so crisp. I'm trying to figure out why mine is blurry. I did see you mention you're using the June 18th Canary build so I may downgrade to that one. Other than that you're really helping me relive this classic, it's been perfect so far!
@@NotJustSomeGuy yeah I have it on 2 and I'm also running the FXAA and FSR which seemed to improve it. Gonna finally test the version of canary and see if that could be the issue. Specs: 3900X Ryzen 9 2080 Super 32GB DDR4 3200MHz
@@NotJustSomeGuy as an update it's working flawlessly now. The only thing I need to figure out is if the rent is working properly but I appreciate your help and your guide. 10/10 I'm actually able to play this again
Does anyone know how to change the language of the game in Xenia? I downloaded the version in my language but it doesn't appear in the fable menu, only English. Does anyone know how to solve it?
Thank you very much for making this video. I was a huge fan of the original Fable but I'm a PC gamer so I never played the second one. I was recently reminded of Fable and thought I'd give 2 a try. I figured they had released a PC version by now but of course not. Why does Fable and Fable 3 have PC versions but not 2? Anyways I've set everything up how you recommended and am looking forward to playing the game. Hopefully I get lucky and won't have too many crashes. The only thing I've really used Xenia for before is for Banjo-Kazooie to see how much of an improvement it was from the original. I played through almost the whole game and don't recall any crashes but I realize it depends on the game you are running.
11 months late, but fable 2 never got a pc port because Microsoft wanted lionhead to work on fable 3 right away. A PC port was in the works before being brushed off by MS.
I've been waiting to be able to play Fable 2 on PC since Fable 3 was ported, and now not only is it possible but it has mods?! 😢 😭 we really do live in the best time for gaming. All these awesome romhacks, mods and ports of so many great older games. Only a matter of time till the Fable 1 devtool is leaked. 😉 would be great if that happened.
Appreciate the guide, been running way better with the patches, though I don't suppose you have any idea why I might be stuck on a loading screen? entering oakfield for the first time and its sat loading for about 5 minutes now, the animation and tips are still going so I assume its still trying?
Not all of the patches appear to be available for the TU1 version of the Game of the Year edition. Is it possible to port these over to the updated version, or is there a reason why playing without TU1 might be preferable?
There's no particular reason, I just either haven't ported them over yet, or never submitted them to be added to the patch file. You can find the morph patch and high tickrate patch for 10.1.1 in the Fable channel in the Xenia Discord server.
Hi... thank you for the detailed tutorial/video. Do you think i would be able to run the game at 30fps on my laptop? i5-11400, 16GbDDR4, GTX1650 4Gb, SSD?
Hi! Works great so far. However I have noticed that audio often doesnt sync with character models when they talk. I am only in childhood so hopefully this works itself out?
Wow, this is great. Thank you so much for fueling our nostalgia in return for nothing. Idk if you want subscribers, and maybe you will create more happiness in the future, so why not
Hello friend! I appreciate the effort but I still have that strobing light issue from the dog. I took all the necessary steps from your guide. I use Nvidia's V-sync from the control panel instead of Xenia's V-Sync and I didn't have enough money to change my dog's breed. Do you thing that is what is causing the issue? Thanks in advance! PS: Strobring light issue is gone after I change the dog's breed. I finished the game with almost 0 issues! I had lots of fun playing this! Thank you! Guys make sure to use V-Sync from your gpu control panel and force AF to 16X from control panel as well. Game is more then playable and very fun!
Nice work! Most everything is working great. I tried following your instructions on the dyes/tattoos but couldn't get those working, It's not really a big deal but if you know of any guide for that i would appreciate it
This comment here seems to detail it, though I believe there are parts you need to disable the patch that aren't mentioned: (Link removed, RUclips removes the comment part of the url so I can't directly link it) I'll just copy and paste it here: From beasyhomie: "Dyes work if you: 1.) set read back resolve to true. save changes 2.) set your X and Y axis to 1. save changes. (Dyes only show in 720p, nothing above for some reason) 3.) Enter the game, apply the dye of your choice. (I dyed my hair blonde to at least get the good/pure hair morph affect.) AND SAVE!!!!!! 4.) Revert read back resolve to false and the x and y axis to 2. or w.e you use. save changes 5.) Enter the game. Profit."
Frankly I'd just go with XCloud, cuz my eyes are old and I care less about graphics, and more about not being frustrated with crashes. Thanks for the video.
Any clue how to fix the bug when you open chests or complete quests where the background is all glitchy like an old TV screen? Only happens when the game is upscaled and its not a big deal but the game looks really bad on 4k without upscale.
A mouse cannot be used but a keyboard can. You'll need to aim/turn the camera by using your keyboard. The keys can be reconfigured in the config file under the [HID.WinKey] section.
Shucks, the game used to work almost perfectly for me. Now I wanted to play again, and unfortunately with the resolution scaler I always have problems with the flashing lighting.
for the part where u back up saves, i dont seem to have a folder named content. When i click the folder I extracted and loaded Xenia into i only have cache_host and patches as my only 2 folders.
Anyone had the bug where the sun is visible and flickering through objects? Mainly in underground areas? I keep getting blinded when I look up or down due to the sunglare not caring that I am in a cave.
If we disable texture morph does that mean the player character appearance does not change with upgrades? Like getting bigger with higher strength etc?
You will still get taller and more bulky when you increase skill and strength, but any textures themselves won't show. This includes Will lines from leveling will, Evil & good skin textures, etc.
Thank you for the video! I am however encountering a bug I didn't see anyone else mention, sometimes whole dialogue lines are being skipped (xenia), any way to remedy this?
Thank you for the video and work! "strobing light" is resolved but I am having terrible performance issues. I applied the changes and the scene right before visiting the castle looks fine. As soon as the castle starts, lags and ghost visuals give me a headache. The cutscene video performance is also good. Right after the castle, the character and the dog look black. Plus performance issues are troublesome. No crash and save issues. Would you have any recommendations to try?
Use the Disable Texture Morph Patch to fix the black textures, but you cannot use dyes or tattoos without carrying out some specific steps to do so. For performance make sure you have the Disable MSAA patch on. For both of these you must be on GoTY however.
@@NotJustSomeGuyThank you so much for your quick reply. After making changes as you suggested, no more performance issues. Unfortunately no luck with the dark character and the dog. Is there anything else to fix this?
@@thegodmc Erm not really*. The patch should've fixed it. Only dyes and tattoos should prevent it from working. I'd recommend deleting and redoing the patch file, but if the other patches are working then I'm not sure what would cause it. Are you sure you're on 10.1 and are not using any title updates? *Well there's readback resolve but I'm assuming you don't want that if performance is a concern
Thank you for your reply. I have been experimenting with the game with different settings and now “Disable MSAA” and “High Tick Rate” are set to FALSE. No more dark characters. It is fixed. The only problem is the performance. When the game starts, all good but after a minute, it becomes laggy. I wonder if something else causes a bottleneck. I set Xenia on the Nvidia panel to make sure it is not on integrated GPU (not sure if this interrupts it). I played the entire Gears of War series and had no issues at all. Additionally, it is 10.1 and I can confirm that
I think I accidentally put on make-up which caused my character to become the black texture. It seems to be stuck that way and I've tried resolve, scaling, and removing the makeup. (Edit: turn off the texture morph disable patch, turn resolve to true and memexport to true, and scaling to 1 for x and y, load into the game make sure character is not blacked out, save, then revert the settings to those in the video and that fixes this issue.)
Ngl I chuckled a little when you stated that you needed a "high end" PC to emulate Fable 2 and then you stated at minimum a 970. I haven't had a 970 since 2015 lmao I think my 4090 will be fine lol
Ye, I should have said high end recommendation rather than requirement. A 970 is gonna be on par with console performance, at which point I'd rather play on a console. There's a surprising amount of people trying to play on decade old hardware who complain because they can't run DX12
Will it be playable with a low end CPU but a high end Graphics Card? I am asking because i have a Laptop with a i5-4300m laying around which i am planning on combining with a external GPU.
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Modding is here! ruclips.net/video/7XqHeqtisOo/видео.html
At least for scripts, which allows us to create... lots of things! From fishing (shown in the video) to a first person camera to anything else you can think of.
2024 Edit: This guide is still accurate, however vsync_interval has been changed -to vsync_fps- to framerate_limit (they changed it twice lol), and now you can just put your desired framerate in :)
There is no vsync_fps in the config file and the 600p patch makes the game crash on launch every time
@@Zaroff91 You're either using an out of date version of Xenia, or it has changed names yet again. The game will crash with the patch if you're not using the GoTY version of the game.
@@NotJustSomeGuy Dont know about the name, maybe, but i am def using the goty version. made sure i am.
Hi, is it possible to make a patch to disable bloom in fable 2? it is over the top in some areas, like the knothole island during the snow weather
@@diegomotta6350 Yerp, and in caves it shines through the ground and blinds.
My man, thanks for this handy video.
I never owned a Xbox360 in my life and after years of Fable TLC/Anniversary and 3 playtroughs, I can finally play Fable II for the first time in my life :)
Sheeesh I’m so hype for you. I feel the second is the best of the series.
actually jealous of you for being able to play it for the first time!
@@hannibalking5028 i have the same situations - many times played fable 1 and 3 but fable 2 only played a bit at friend's house xD. So will try soon on emulator to play Fable 2 properly finally.
So happy for you dude. I am just now playing TLC after having grown up on Fable 2 (one of my favourite games of all time) and 3 on Xbox. I had a similar experience with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which I was never able to play on console or emulator until the remaster was emulatable.
Dyes work if you:
1.) set read back resolve to true. save changes
2.) set your X and Y axis to 1. save changes. (Dyes only show in 720p, nothing above for some reason)
3.) Enter the game, apply the dye of your choice. (I dyed my hair blonde to at least get the good/pure hair morph affect.) AND SAVE!!!!!!
4.) Revert read back resolve to false and the x and y axis to 2. or w.e you use. save changes
5.) Enter the game. Profit.
Thankyou!!! Worked with makeup too for me!
This also worked for me. Tried doing it as described in the video and made my character bald
Beautiful! Worked like a charm.
It worked thank you! At first I dyed my character’s hair first, she became bald lol. But changing the setting after worked!
FABLE 2 MODS?!?!? THIS IS THE FUTURE
Imagine fable 2 60frames and better graphics
@@jamiereid1559 PCs do what consoles won't.
This is pretty cool, I've never played fable II, been waiting past couple of years for xenia and the patches to get this good. Finally I can play the whole trilogy in order.
i played first 2-3hours in my friends house back in 2008. amazing game already in the first hours. i keep waiting for PC version but its cool we can emulate it
Why this game didn't get a PC version I'll never understand.
2000's licensing wars. Dark times.
I can't believe Red Dead Redemption has never gotten a PC version either.
Well it did now@@HerecomestheCalavera
@@HerecomestheCalavera Bloodborne and Lost Odessey as well.
Console wars destroyed everything
Played Fable 2 on Xenia around October 2022 with a I think specialized build and found this one on a potential replay.
Can confirm that disabling the texture morphing patch, enabling readback resolve and applying whatever cosmetic you want (in my case makeup) and changing everything back works.
I was even able to change the makeup without being presented with a broken face texture, which is neat.
EDIT: Turns out I forgot to switch readback off, broken face texture came back as I first expected. Can't say it works guaranteed.
Man, this is a dream come true. My Xbox 360 has a hard time running for more than half an hour currently due to a power supply issue, so it's nice that I can finally get back to playing Fable 2. It's mind boggling that it's the only Fable to not have a proper port of any kind to PC, especially since before Fable 2 released they had the flash games to promote the game. I subscribed, especially out of interest for any future patches and content. I've been keeping an eye on Xenia for what feels like ever.
Thank you brother. How long have I been waiting for this patch. Finally the shadows and light are fixed.
it works flawlessly except for a few stutters that fixed itself in the childhood. played until the part where you talk to Abbot nonstop with no crashed. Thank you for letting me relive my childhood
Thanks, this is just the perfect breakdown of the options I was looking for. I appreciate the time you took to put this together
Wild that there's been this much development on getting Fable 2 working since I last looked into it. Hopefully Fable 4 does well enough to get a Fable 2 remaster. Thanks for the video, very informative and no clickbait!
Thank you for this guide, I've had a longing to replay this game for quite a while, and I'm enjoying it a lot, the advantages of emulation really help bring the childhood fantasy back.
I'd like to contribute a little bit. To me it felt like the crashes happening at relatively predictable times had to mean they were performance related. I crashed, for example, when first entering new areas and fighting for the first time. In my last session before this comment, I tried going to the Task Administrator, Details, and setting Xenia's priority to just under Real Time. I've had the game running for 3 hours with no crashing, through the Balverine lair and the Crucible + mopping up the time sensitive quests. If anyone is having trouble with crashing, try this!
I appreciate it the summary of the good and bad. And the fixes! Very useful video, thank you :)
Thank you so much for this, this game means so much for me, back when I was a kid my friend had a xbox360 and we used to play fable 2 all the time, so replaying it feels unreal. For anyone interested the game runs ok with a Rx570 4GB and a Ryzen 5 2600
Fantastic guide and work! Thank you for all this. Fable 2 is very special to me, this gives me a chance to relive the magic.
thank you for spreading the news about the patches!
:D
So many people leave out the part where you turn on the patches in the file manually when you see people explain how to do this. Many thanks ✌
Amazing, love your work mate
Thank you sooo much for this tutorial! I completed main quest of Fable II yesterday, thanks to you! There were a lot of crashes (like 5-7 each stream), but other than that everything worked pretty fine.
I loved Fable 2 when I was a child. I can't wait to try with mods as I always thought it was a bit limited in some senses.
Awesome thanks!
Huge fan of the OSRS background!
Everything works correctly at the moment. Thanks for your work, Guy. ^^
He can't say it without his channel getting nuked, but the "legal" ways being a pain, costing an insane amount of money, and leaving you with subpar game versions are largely inconsequential when you're a Google search away from the better-than-legal ways of getting the best version.
I'm stealing the phrase "better-than-legal" 😂
Mate you are a legend. I was gna buy a second hand 360 to replay this, now I don't have to. Your patches work great too, thank you so much!!
just wanted to say thank you this is the only way to play fable 2 and now I can play it with 60fps with a faster menu better resolution and the best is having my character actually show up and no more weird flickering. Just need to remember to back up my saves just in case. Thank you for the hard work
the further you get into the game, and the stronger your spells get, are going to crash the game more often. Also, people with amd gpu's are plagued with so many more crashes. It's very annoying, but haven't had any issues with my save getting corrupted but I still back up saves while the game is running and rename them as well so I can keep track. Always save after you've done a very annoying puzzle or something lol. I'm currently trying to find a good driver and xenia canary version that can work well with my terribly optimized amd gpu so it doesnt crash so much
Super informative, played through cloud myself but looking at Xenia for DLC. Thx!
Hi, thank you for the guide, curious though, are there any parts of this video outdated by now, any extra tips?
I went and modified each patch version of the game and saved it properly but the game wont recognize the patch, is there some other way to connect the patches to the game or is my version of the game messed up. like the game runs but the patches wont go through. plz any recommendations..?
And for those who have been facing issues with patches not loading even after applying them from "false" to "true";
I don't know why, but an older version of Xenia Canary can load the patches while the newer one cannot.
I was facing the same issue loading patches on the latest version of Xenia Canary. I kind of thought that I would check an older version and see how that works out.
And it worked!
Here i am, i activate the 60fps patch but im stuck at 30, can u please tell me what version u ve downloaded?
@@bskprod7659 August 2023 version of Xenia Canary.
It's an utter travesty this was never ported to PC properly and fans have to make their own programs and patches just to play the game they love. I'm also still waiting for bloodborne PC with baited breath... Anyways great video thanks I must try this! Been wanting to play F2 for years now but I'm not buying an OG xbox just for one game lol. Do you think it work on a gtx1060?
it will work with a gtx 1060, but you will be playing with low fps, so just keep the 60 fps patch disabled, as it causes some issues in some parts of the game
Thanks G - I was pleasantly surprised to get this running smoothly on Linux via Lutris. Everything I was reading on forums were saying it wasn't possible
You, my man, are a lifesaver.
Kudos!
Everything is working great, thank you. Although, i have noticed when increasing the draw resolution scale there seems to be some texture issue when entering any sort of menu, this seems to happen fairly often and is quite jarring, so its making me hesitant to increase the resolution despite the game looking so much better at 1440p. The strobing effect was fixed with the addition to the patch that you recommended, but this texture issue seems to be persistent. It only happens for a second or two and it does fix itself, but it just looks like the textures are corrupted for a split second but it is quite noticeable. Any tips or recommended fixes that you know of? Thanks! :)
Afraid I have nothing for that. I'm not sure it will ever be fixed if it's specifically caused by upscaling. Even if Xenia is in a perfect state it's not the emulators problem, rather it's just a side effect of upscaling, and I have no idea where I'd start to make a patch unfortunately.
Great instruction, thanks a lot for the info! Your patches are wild
One note: there is a Russian localization for Fable II - Game of the year edition that has version v1.2, but it actually has hash of "your" 10.1 version, and all your patches are compatible with it
Hi! You did not find any issues while playing? I did everything from the guide but I still have strobing light issue from the dog. Are there any benefits while using the v.1.2 of the game? Thanks in advance.
@@agentsmith6161 yes, the dog still explodes with polygons, so you need to change its breed with a potion (in-game feature, here is an instruction in the video)
From what I noticed, the game version is actually 10.1, but for some strange reason it is marked as 1.2, probably due to localization process
@@Nurgul626 Got it! I'm gonna change the dog's breed! But afterwards everything is playing perfect? I'm aware about the tattoos and dyes issues. I mean besides those, everything is ok?
PS: Is there a way I can play this at more then 600p without issues? My pc cannot handle that 2x2 or 1x2 draw setting. I was thinking about 1080p. Thanks for taking the time to reply!!
@@agentsmith6161 I also had to play at pretty low resolution on my 2060 with Ryzen 3600, so can't help here
Apart from the dog, everything else is very consistent. I had no crashes, but I backed up my saves every time I saved, just in case
@@Nurgul626 Got it! Thanks man! Il give it go! I see that MSAA is making things a lot better even at 600p res. Il use that and Reshade for a bit of sharpening. That CAS sharpening from Xenia is not working ok. Have a great day!
Thank you so much Guy! I tried to play Fable 2 on xcloud and too me it was unplayable with 600mgbs download speed due to how laggy and blurry the game was. If you play on Xenia it's a great experience after you install Guy's patches. The only thing I can is that I had a scare where my save file corrupted because the game crashed while I was saving and had played multiple hours before backing it up like Guy said. Luckily you can use your chapter save as your main save and not lose all of your progress. I would highly recommend having your backup save window, and game file window open, and almost any time you save or do something tedious in the game, just copy your file over. Still an amazing experience and have been enjoying it.
Fantastic video, for a long while I put off playing Fable 2 on Xenia due to how bad it still was, but this completely changed that.
Thank you!
you just earned your self a sub been telling my son about the fable games hes played fable 1 i want him to play fable 2 its too laggy on xcloud but on xenia its smooth next weekend now when hes at mine we will both play fable 2.
Excellent! The input lags so bad on just this game from Xbox. I cant recreate the problem on another game. Support wasnt helpful. I can't do any jobs properly. Dreams of being a blacksmith doa lol You're being a savior over here
It works!!
Thank you Guy, I've been dreaming of playing my favorite childhood game for years; and Cloud Gaming is unfortunately not available in my country.
Although I do still get the occasional visual or audio bug, the game runs smoother than I expected and am able to play for what seems like a decent while without any major issues.
I did notice, although I do have the [Patches Applied] message, my dog will still have some visual artifacts in some scenes: the part of the screen the dog occupied when the guards come to pick you up and take you to the castle had a lot of blue lines running up and down. I'm not sure if that means I did something wrong, but if not, it's far from a deal-breaker. It will probably either disappear in the next scene or possibly if I save and reload the game.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the very detailed video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This worked a treat thank you ❤️
Best fable game
Great video Guy! Very helpful
wish there was a way to play at 1080p since 2k drops my fps in the high 40's and 720p is hard to look at.
the best you can do is use the post-processing settings which do sharpen the game a bit
Great video, do you have some news about a more stable version of Xenia today in 2024 with save corruption and optimisation ?
Thanks dude this worked perfectly
Thank you! I just finished playing through fable 1 and was struggling getting this thing to run some what stable.
Great vid dude!
Just finished the first one for the first time since I was a kid, and I’ve never played 2 ! I was able to get 3 from g2a and redeem it on steam, but had to do some fancy footwork in the game files to get it to run (capped at 30😔)
I’m sooo excited to get home and finally get my mitts on this game
love the runescape background :)
Great and comprehensive tutorial. I really thought of playing Fable 2 via streaming, but the potential input lag made me reconsider and take some time to configure the emulation.
And here I have a problem: after applying fixes and patches the game works fine most of the time apart from an occasional crash or major freeze, but the dog's model gets really, REALLY glitchy after entering the Bower Lake Tomb, similarly to the strobe effect that the aforementioned fixes should take care of + getting transparent in some cases (the glitch appear always after entering a new area). Did I do something wrong? I have enabled the morph patch and disabled the readback resolve (had to rearrange it after finishing childhood, since both the dog and Sparrow were completely black)
Changing dog breed through the potions you get from murgo will fix the dog glitching, if you have the DLC.
@@NotJustSomeGuy as of now Murgo sells only clothing, will he have these dyes later in stock?
Thanks for the video. Hey whats that background on your desktop I love it! Where do I get it ?
Great guide, Thank you
Brilliant!
To be perfectly fair, I played the game on my step siblings Xbox 360 back in the day and it crashed a lot on its own native system. Doesn't seem like too big a deal in the face of that.
awesome video. Thanks.
Brilliant. Top lad
Is it required to have a controller plugged into the PC to play Fable 2 this way, or can the buttons and joysticks be mapped to keyboard + mouse inputs?
You can use a keyboard but not a mouse, so stick movement will be bound to keys. You can remap these keys but you need to figure out the keycodes and put them in a text file.
There is a mousehook fork for Xenia but it only supports several games right now, and Fable 2 isn't one of them (yet). It could be fun to try and add support for it, but a challenge for sure.
Your gameplay looks so crisp. I'm trying to figure out why mine is blurry. I did see you mention you're using the June 18th Canary build so I may downgrade to that one. Other than that you're really helping me relive this classic, it's been perfect so far!
Did you remember to change the resolution scale like I did at 8:39?
@@NotJustSomeGuy yeah I have it on 2 and I'm also running the FXAA and FSR which seemed to improve it. Gonna finally test the version of canary and see if that could be the issue.
Specs:
3900X Ryzen 9
2080 Super
32GB DDR4 3200MHz
@@NotJustSomeGuy as an update it's working flawlessly now. The only thing I need to figure out is if the rent is working properly but I appreciate your help and your guide. 10/10 I'm actually able to play this again
@@unkeptvoidis the rent working properly?
@@dioxyde0 yeah it was working for me when I tried it. Not the offline though sadly.
Thank you!!
Does anyone know how to change the language of the game in Xenia? I downloaded the version in my language but it doesn't appear in the fable menu, only English. Does anyone know how to solve it?
A 980ti isn't really high end anymore 😂
Would do anything for fable 2 PC port...
Thank you very much for making this video. I was a huge fan of the original Fable but I'm a PC gamer so I never played the second one. I was recently reminded of Fable and thought I'd give 2 a try. I figured they had released a PC version by now but of course not. Why does Fable and Fable 3 have PC versions but not 2? Anyways I've set everything up how you recommended and am looking forward to playing the game. Hopefully I get lucky and won't have too many crashes. The only thing I've really used Xenia for before is for Banjo-Kazooie to see how much of an improvement it was from the original. I played through almost the whole game and don't recall any crashes but I realize it depends on the game you are running.
11 months late, but fable 2 never got a pc port because Microsoft wanted lionhead to work on fable 3 right away.
A PC port was in the works before being brushed off by MS.
I've been waiting to be able to play Fable 2 on PC since Fable 3 was ported, and now not only is it possible but it has mods?! 😢 😭 we really do live in the best time for gaming. All these awesome romhacks, mods and ports of so many great older games. Only a matter of time till the Fable 1 devtool is leaked. 😉 would be great if that happened.
is there any way to play this at 1080p? like changing the base resolution to 960x540 then upscaling by 2 similar to the rdr patches?
still waiting if this become playable until finish
Appreciate the guide, been running way better with the patches, though I don't suppose you have any idea why I might be stuck on a loading screen? entering oakfield for the first time and its sat loading for about 5 minutes now, the animation and tips are still going so I assume its still trying?
Try disabling the High Tickrate patch if you have it on
Cool wallpaper, where u got it and is there more like that?
Not all of the patches appear to be available for the TU1 version of the Game of the Year edition. Is it possible to port these over to the updated version, or is there a reason why playing without TU1 might be preferable?
There's no particular reason, I just either haven't ported them over yet, or never submitted them to be added to the patch file. You can find the morph patch and high tickrate patch for 10.1.1 in the Fable channel in the Xenia Discord server.
is there anyway to get the patches exclusive to goty edition to work with the base game patches?
Yes it's happening 🙌!!! Fable 2 PC, God I love emulation.
"High pc requirements" proceeds to ask for a minimum of a 970. Yeah high system requirements alright. For 2015.
I mean you won't be getting a great framerate on that, but it'll probably work. The "high" requirements are for a good framerate.
Hi... thank you for the detailed tutorial/video. Do you think i would be able to run the game at 30fps on my laptop? i5-11400, 16GbDDR4, GTX1650 4Gb, SSD?
Hi! Works great so far. However I have noticed that audio often doesnt sync with character models when they talk. I am only in childhood so hopefully this works itself out?
Wow, this is great. Thank you so much for fueling our nostalgia in return for nothing. Idk if you want subscribers, and maybe you will create more happiness in the future, so why not
Finished it playing pc version! 60 fps and ultrawide!!!
Hello friend! I appreciate the effort but I still have that strobing light issue from the dog. I took all the necessary steps from your guide. I use Nvidia's V-sync from the control panel instead of Xenia's V-Sync and I didn't have enough money to change my dog's breed. Do you thing that is what is causing the issue? Thanks in advance!
PS: Strobring light issue is gone after I change the dog's breed. I finished the game with almost 0 issues! I had lots of fun playing this! Thank you! Guys make sure to use V-Sync from your gpu control panel and force AF to 16X from control panel as well. Game is more then playable and very fun!
Nice work! Most everything is working great. I tried following your instructions on the dyes/tattoos but couldn't get those working, It's not really a big deal but if you know of any guide for that i would appreciate it
This comment here seems to detail it, though I believe there are parts you need to disable the patch that aren't mentioned:
(Link removed, RUclips removes the comment part of the url so I can't directly link it)
I'll just copy and paste it here:
From beasyhomie: "Dyes work if you:
1.) set read back resolve to true. save changes
2.) set your X and Y axis to 1. save changes. (Dyes only show in 720p, nothing above for some reason)
3.) Enter the game, apply the dye of your choice. (I dyed my hair blonde to at least get the good/pure hair morph affect.) AND SAVE!!!!!!
4.) Revert read back resolve to false and the x and y axis to 2. or w.e you use. save changes
5.) Enter the game. Profit."
Frankly I'd just go with XCloud, cuz my eyes are old and I care less about graphics, and more about not being frustrated with crashes. Thanks for the video.
Any clue how to fix the bug when you open chests or complete quests where the background is all glitchy like an old TV screen?
Only happens when the game is upscaled and its not a big deal but the game looks really bad on 4k without upscale.
THANKS GUY!
He's not your guy, buddy!
Great video! Apologies if I missed this, but is a 360 controller required for input with Xenia, or can it be configured with a keyboard and mouse?
A mouse cannot be used but a keyboard can. You'll need to aim/turn the camera by using your keyboard.
The keys can be reconfigured in the config file under the [HID.WinKey] section.
@@NotJustSomeGuy Interesting, after mapping 'keybind_a' to "E" or "_E", I still can't get past the title menu where it says "Press A"
@@viridono Have you changed the "hid" option to "winkey"?
@@NotJustSomeGuy That just did the trick! Probably should have read the comments more thoroughly. Thanks a lot!
Got it working properly thanks man.
Is there any way we can mod/cheat gold or skill xp in?
Shucks, the game used to work almost perfectly for me. Now I wanted to play again, and unfortunately with the resolution scaler I always have problems with the flashing lighting.
This man is a god.
I think changing the game to 60fps make me swim A LOT faster.
same its quite funny
for the part where u back up saves, i dont seem to have a folder named content. When i click the folder I extracted and loaded Xenia into i only have cache_host and patches as my only 2 folders.
Anyone had the bug where the sun is visible and flickering through objects? Mainly in underground areas?
I keep getting blinded when I look up or down due to the sunglare not caring that I am in a cave.
Couldn't get the dye work around to work, mild annoyance compared to the slew of other things fixed though.
If we disable texture morph does that mean the player character appearance does not change with upgrades? Like getting bigger with higher strength etc?
You will still get taller and more bulky when you increase skill and strength, but any textures themselves won't show. This includes Will lines from leveling will, Evil & good skin textures, etc.
@@NotJustSomeGuy ahh well good to know there's progress at least! Thanks man:)
Thank you for the video! I am however encountering a bug I didn't see anyone else mention, sometimes whole dialogue lines are being skipped (xenia), any way to remedy this?
Thank you for the video and work! "strobing light" is resolved but I am having terrible performance issues. I applied the changes and the scene right before visiting the castle looks fine. As soon as the castle starts, lags and ghost visuals give me a headache. The cutscene video performance is also good. Right after the castle, the character and the dog look black. Plus performance issues are troublesome. No crash and save issues. Would you have any recommendations to try?
Use the Disable Texture Morph Patch to fix the black textures, but you cannot use dyes or tattoos without carrying out some specific steps to do so. For performance make sure you have the Disable MSAA patch on.
For both of these you must be on GoTY however.
@@NotJustSomeGuyThank you so much for your quick reply. After making changes as you suggested, no more performance issues. Unfortunately no luck with the dark character and the dog. Is there anything else to fix this?
@@thegodmc Erm not really*. The patch should've fixed it. Only dyes and tattoos should prevent it from working. I'd recommend deleting and redoing the patch file, but if the other patches are working then I'm not sure what would cause it. Are you sure you're on 10.1 and are not using any title updates?
*Well there's readback resolve but I'm assuming you don't want that if performance is a concern
Thank you for your reply. I have been experimenting with the game with different settings and now “Disable MSAA” and “High Tick Rate” are set to FALSE. No more dark characters. It is fixed. The only problem is the performance. When the game starts, all good but after a minute, it becomes laggy. I wonder if something else causes a bottleneck. I set Xenia on the Nvidia panel to make sure it is not on integrated GPU (not sure if this interrupts it). I played the entire Gears of War series and had no issues at all. Additionally, it is 10.1 and I can confirm that
I think I accidentally put on make-up which caused my character to become the black texture. It seems to be stuck that way and I've tried resolve, scaling, and removing the makeup.
(Edit: turn off the texture morph disable patch, turn resolve to true and memexport to true, and scaling to 1 for x and y, load into the game make sure character is not blacked out, save, then revert the settings to those in the video and that fixes this issue.)
Ngl I chuckled a little when you stated that you needed a "high end" PC to emulate Fable 2 and then you stated at minimum a 970. I haven't had a 970 since 2015 lmao I think my 4090 will be fine lol
Ye, I should have said high end recommendation rather than requirement. A 970 is gonna be on par with console performance, at which point I'd rather play on a console. There's a surprising amount of people trying to play on decade old hardware who complain because they can't run DX12
thank you.
Question, any patches to get things like the high roller coat available?
Try modifying your save's Fable2Pubinfo.xml file to change the SharedInventoryMask value to 32767.
@@NotJustSomeGuy got it! Ill give it a try
I can't seem to get the patches to work, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Will it be playable with a low end CPU but a high end Graphics Card?
I am asking because i have a Laptop with a i5-4300m laying around which i am planning on combining with a external GPU.