fable doesn't work for steam

skipiebipy · January 3, 2021

I got fable 1 for pc and when I open up a new save the game just shuts off. Please help?

The1Dickens · January 3, 2021

3 minutes ago, skipiebipy said:

I got fable 1 for pc and when I open up a new save the game just shuts off. Please help?

Need specs to be able to help proper. Is it a potato, and you got Fable because you know it can run it? Or did you get it because nostalgia on your 3500-dollar rig?

Master Disaster · January 3, 2021

CPU? GPU? OS?

skipiebipy · January 3, 2021

I have a decent budget pc, r3 3200g with gtx 1660 super 16 gb 3200ghz
pretty sure i can run it

The1Dickens · January 4, 2021

3 hours ago, skipiebipy said:

pretty sure i can run it

Right, but if your PC is too powerful, you might have to do stuff to hold back the power. And it sounds like your PC might be the 'too powerful' kind.

If you can turn on the nVidia overlay with the FPS, and see what it's trying to run at, that would tell you if it's in "overdrive" (unintentionally). For example, when I got the Legacy of Kain series, I had to use nVidia Inspector (I think it's called?) to restrict the framerate to 200 (or less). Because it was trying to run at 2K+ fps, and causing it to crash. There might have also been a DirectX8 thing I had to drop in, but I don't remember 100 per cent.

The game was released in 2004, and the "remaster" in 2014, but from the sounds of it, it's the same engine, as all the same bugs are still there.