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Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

williamandhope — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:47:36 GMT

i had the same problem this morning but i found the problem on mine had to do with creative sound cards i really do not know how you are with computers but if you have a creative sound blaster card you will want to disable two things.what you will need to do is click start where it says start search type msconfig and press enter it will come up with do you wish to continue click yes or click continue you will have buttons called general,boot,services,startup,tools
you will need to click on services go down to creative alchemy al6 licensing uncheck it and uncheck creative audio engine licensing.
that is how my game is working it took me two hours on the net to find out it could be my sound cards software making the problem
i hope this helps
williamandhope

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

CrimsonAviator — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:09:24 GMT

I have just installed this software, and each time I attempt to run it I get the following error; "Fable - The Lost Chapters has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

I cannot play the game, and I cannot uninstall it either. I have the following system specs:

Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core Processor 2.30 GHz
7 GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce 9100

Any help is appreciated!

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

snoopay700 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:03:46 GMT

I'm having this same problem, and i know my computer meets the requirements for this game, but toggling everything in the options doesn't yield any results

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

BingoBaby — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:43:54 GMT

Um, I seem to be having an interesting error. I have played this game for a while, and now it exits without notification. It does it at loading screens, just randomly began to do so. Now, it does this at the beginning load (from main options to get into my game).
I hear that this is a common problem, does anyone know of a way around it?

Edited to Add: Have uninstalled/reinstalled. Seems to work fine, but obviously is not a viable solution - can't be restarting my game every time I play.

Edited to Add: Seems to have reverted to the same issue.

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

M1918A1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:51:30 GMT

Never mind....just figured it out.........I uninstalled the NEW video drivers and put in some from january of 2008.......Works great now

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

M1918A1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:09:57 GMT

am trying to install Fable TLC onto a computer that I just put together for my grandkids. System specs:

AMD Athlon XP2400+ (2.0ghz)

Radeon 9800XT

2 gig PC2700 ram

Windows XP Pro Service pack 3

The game installs fine and lets me set up a user profile and begins with the short intro "slide show". The problem starts when the game itself begins....As soon as the game starts with the sleeping child, the computer immediately reboots. When windows comes back up, I get the grey block stating that windows has just recovered from a serious error. I reinstalled 5 times and still got the same result. I then totally reformatted with a fresh copy of windows and tried again. After 3 attempts at reinstalling, nothing has changed. I even copied the game from another computer onto a jump drive and tried to start it from the drive......same results.

The game plays fine on another computer which has the same specs except for the video card is a Radeon X800. The 9800XT should be more than enough video card for the game, because it was one of the hotter video cards when the game came out. I did change refresh rates and screen resolution and pulled out pulled out the sound card and went with onboard sound . Still no help. Changing "compatibility mode just made it so the game wouldnt start up at all. If anyone can help, I would deeply appreciate it because the kids are dying to play this game at home.

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

Kalme_Observr — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:30:24 GMT

I've got a question about a problem the game seems to be having for me. I've got the Apple version of Fable: The Lost Chapters, and up until just a little while ago, it worked perfectly on my laptop. Had worked, no problems, the multiple times I played it in the past. But now, when I'm told to put in the DVD to play the game, before it's even started, the game never recognizes that the DVD is even in the computer. I did a virus scan to check for problems, and got nothing. Checked all my other games, no problems. The computer does recognize that the CD is in the computer, but the game doesn't.

I even tried uninstalling the game and then re-installing it, but the problem persists. Like I said, never had the problem before. Does anyone have any idea what would be wrong with the game now that wasn't wrong before?

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

MrTee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:49:26 GMT

It's a problem with third party Direct show codecs like K-lite. Same problem with the VistaCodecs pack. But it's easier to fix.

First of all, uninstall all third party codecpacks you may have on your machine and update to the newest version of VistaCodecs. It's the only one you'll need. Optionally you can keep Quicktime and Real. (VLC is only local to it's own platform so that will have no effect on Fable.)

Delete you Fable profile, the entire folder. (my documents\my games\fable\saves\yourprofilename) Sorry, but your gonna have to start the game over.

Go to your windows start menu and find the "VistaCodecs\32bit Tools" folder.

Select the "Video decoder configuration" with the FFV icon.

Go to DirectShow control and select the Don't use ffdshow in check box. Then browse and select the Fable.exe program. This should disable the codec while Fable is running.

Now you can restart the game and it should be able to save and open the profile.

It worked for me.

Other things you should/could do:
- Update to the latest DirectX
- Update your Graphics card driver
- Update your Audio driver
- Set your regional settings to ENG (UK).

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

lazo4 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:08:27 GMT

Did you find a solution to this problem?

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

Rob136 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:40:35 GMT

I have a huge problem with Fable TLC, first off it won't play right. Whenever I try to play, the characters, objects, houses, everything is black, all the buttons work so i can attack and run and whatever, but i can't see anything. Secondly i can't uninstall Fable TLC from my computer. I click uninstall and the bar goes half way then it exits the uninstall, no message, no nothing, it just shuts the uninstall off. It's all so wierd 'cause about two months ago i could play it without any problems, but we had to do a total clean sweep on the computer and wiped the hard drive, had a bunch of viruses. Afterwards i installed Fable and it wouldn't work. Any thoughts would be extremley helpful at this point.

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

OmenoKatze — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:48:26 GMT

I've discovered today that my problem is related to #5 due to repeating my process of auto saving. The game file loads, but it is the AUTOSAVE File that is damanged.

All that is left is solving how to stop the autosave from working, allowing me to simply manual save when I need to.

Anyone know how to stop / disable Autosave!?
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'You go and do that, I'll enjoy you making the scene...'
- Omeno Katze

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

OmenoKatze — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:12:36 GMT

Hi everyone. Newbie to posting on these fourms, forgive the extended information. I'm annoyed and a little bummed out at the moment: I spent all day yesterday crunching and now I can't even load my save file to continue. Its hard to find some real help online, other fourms aren't helping!

Problem:
game crashes as soon as Auto Save pops up while loading saved file.

Message Screen:
" We are sorry, but we have detected that the game did
not exit correctly. We recommend starting the game in safe mode. Safe
mode may disable some advanced features of the game, but may allow you
to play the game. "

What has been tried:
changed theme of computer,
have uninstalled fable while keeping saved files,
have gone so far as to loading up a new game save and loading through back door - fails.

Specks:
OS: Vista Home Premium (6.0)
Model: Inspiron 1720
BIOS: Phoenix ROM
Processor: 1.46GHz ~1.59GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
DirectX Version: 10
Display: nVidia geForce 8400M GS
Approx. Total Memory: 880MB
Display Mode: 1440x900 (32bit) (59Hz)
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Compatibility mode: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
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Main driver: nvd3dum.dll, nvwgf2um.dll

**I'll be checking in every day until I find out how to make this better.**
***If my Info. Tech friend who works at my college solves this problem, I will share it with the board!***

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'You go and do that, I'll enjoy you making the scene...'
- Omeno Katze

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

FeldonKTH — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:58:54 GMT

casiix:
Sn4ke:
Problem Symptoms:

Game crashes after changing something in the options or just opening the options and then going back. If I dont touch options and starting a new game, then game crashes when quiting using in-game menu's Quit function.

Then, when I start the game again, it crashes after clicking left mouse button on "Click Left Mouse Button to Continue" screen. It passes that screen if there are three or more accounts created, but when I attempt to load any existing profile, it still crashes.

My system is:

Asus P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard

Intel Core2Duo 1.86GHz

2048 Gb RAM

nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256Mb

Realtek High Definition Audio (Integrated to Motherboard)

Windows XP Professional SP2 Eng

DirectX 9.0c August 2007

Reinstalling Fable didnt help. Reinstalling Windows didnt help. Disabling Audio Card didnt help.

Game worked perfectly on my old computer.

I'm having the same problem. I am running Vista Ultimate. Can someone please help us with this?

Same here, running windows xp sp3. Annoying as hell.

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

casiix — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:42:03 GMT

Sn4ke:
Problem Symptoms:

Game crashes after changing something in the options or just opening the options and then going back. If I dont touch options and starting a new game, then game crashes when quiting using in-game menu's Quit function.

Then, when I start the game again, it crashes after clicking left mouse button on "Click Left Mouse Button to Continue" screen. It passes that screen if there are three or more accounts created, but when I attempt to load any existing profile, it still crashes.

My system is:

Asus P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard

Intel Core2Duo 1.86GHz

2048 Gb RAM

nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256Mb

Realtek High Definition Audio (Integrated to Motherboard)

Windows XP Professional SP2 Eng

DirectX 9.0c August 2007

Reinstalling Fable didnt help. Reinstalling Windows didnt help. Disabling Audio Card didnt help.

Game worked perfectly on my old computer.

I'm having the same problem. I am running Vista Ultimate. Can someone please help us with this?

Re: The Official 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' Support Topic

compaqpresariom2000 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:59:45 GMT

concerning my prior post that is the whole screen