Re: Fable 3 Crack No Dvd Drive Detected
Vannina Keasley
my advice is this: play the game in a 1024x640 resolution. some graphical effects will only work in this resolution. for example, the black and white effect from using the very important "time stop" spell, will only work in this resolution. in every other resolution I tried the screen went completly black when ever I used this spell.
also, while playing you will encounter some minor graphic glitches. for example the water will have some strange yellow stripes on it and sometimes the game will forget to draw some transparent hair or beard texture. note: this will not, in any way hinder you in playing. those things are just cosmetic problems, and, as the rest of the beautiful graphic is drawn perfectly, I think you will not even notice it most of the time.
I've got a Santa Rosa MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 2GB RAM and a GMA X3100 (144 MB VRAM). Will Fable not work with GMA graphics? I couldn't find anything either way on Microsoft's site, and I know the new Feral port won't work. Am I just sunk?
sorry i should have mentioned that i have a macbook pro.
the problem you encountered is one of the macbooks main problems. the macbook does not have a real seperate graphic card installed. instead it has some kind of graphics chip.
the problem is, that a lot of games do not recognize this chip and need your computer to have a real graphic card.
for instance i played fable on my macbook pro with windows (installed through bootcamp) without problems, while my brother with a macbook (and windows via bootcamp) had the same problems with fable as you.
by the way: i know why there is an audio/video error, when you startup fable. thats because fable wants to run a wmplayer video via activating the windows media player. well it cant and therefore you get the error.
hey avarchillion...i followed all the steps and the game runs fine so far, but whenever i cast fireballs there are no flames visible, the experience orbs arent visible aswell, there are times where the sound cuts off during cutscenes and whenever i wanna boost my experience or learn more spells the preview of the spell doesnt show.
hm, i didnt have the fireball problem (sounds like a particle thing), but the graphic gliches with the experience orbs i had too. tradicly i do not know of a way to solve this glich. well you know that you can hit the left-shift key to draw the orbs to you, so this is not such a wild thing, in my opinion. ?
aja, the sound cuts off, when fable tries to run a little windows media clip, after this the sound is gone. propably because fable deactivates its own sound, so the windows media player wont be interrupted. but because the windows media player is not opend, there is no confirmation of the ending of the clip and therefore fable doesnt activate its own sound by itselfs.
well you can solve this by klicking the esc key in game. after this the sound should be back. at least that was the case whenever i tried it.
the learning preview is also a problem with the windows media player. if you look through the files in the fable folder you will notice, that those previews are opend with the windows media player and therefore fable cant run them too.
im glad that the game runs well, with these exeptions. i know its not perfect, mostly due to problems with the windows media player, but it runs stable and, what can i say, i really enjoyed playing it. ?
yep i know that error. took me some time to get around it. this is, why you have to download the two .dll files "d3dx9_25.dll" and "Mfc42.dll". you got to put them into the system32 folder in your fable bottle.
then the cd-key should be accepted.
Hm, I have to admit, that I really do not know how this problem could be solved. Let me think.....
Have you tried patching it? How about trying to run the game in a window (you know no fullscreen). You can do this with the winecfg tool in the "manage bottles" screen. Try this and tell me if it made a difference.
Hi,
I've been able to install Fable, but when it's asking to reboot your system I'm stuck.
My Crossover Games software Installer keeps running after installation. And does nothing.
I can eject or Force Installer completion.
What to do? Have done it before, when I choose Force installer completion Fable won't start.
Help!
Thanks
First thanks for your help, but I got another problem with the installation.
I downloaded the two files and placed them into the folder and it worked, but I don't know how to continue the installation after changing the CD's...Shall I open it again with Crossover Games? Because nothing happens if I click on install CD 2 with Crossover.
The Programm seems to not detect the CD and neither does the Installation...
Now the game launches but the screen stays black.. but there is no error that is appearing, only the black screen. There is a indication before starting that the game wasn't quit correctly and I can choose between continuing or starting in the safe mode.. same effect.
Followed instructions... game installed but cannot run... after deleting the bottle and attempting install again (I had to force Crossover to quit the installation after it completed so thought that might have caused some problem). Still could not get working. I am attempting to run on a 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. Any help would be appreciated... Only thing I can think of at this point is that possibly having the regular version of Crossover installed (as well as Crossover Games which I'm trying to run the game through).
I bought fable a while back but was never able to play it. I wanted to try to install it on my mac but after following the instructions I just get a black screen. Do you have any other tips on how to install it correctly?
Sry that it took so long for me to answer, but well, I was preoccupied with my studies. ?
Anyway to you Garrett Richey and you zula, I have to admit that Im at a loss. I think I posted quite easy to follow instructions. I described exactly how to run this game on my mac. You both seem to have a similar confirued mac, therefore it should work. Yet it doesn't. Sry, but I really do not know why.
So I think we have to work together on this one. Have you both downloaded the needed files (dlls and no cd crack) and put in the right folders.
For instance this black screen problem sounds to me, like the no cd crack is missing.
I hope, together we can sort this out. ?
Ok. I'm having trouble installing this the installer gets about %90 done and bombs out with an error. I am obviously not doing something right. I have CrossOver pro (which has crossover games included) and when I insert the cd the first thing it asks me is what package I want to use. Ok so that's the first question which package do I use? Secondly I have the two dlls in the Fable bottled system32 folder, however the instructions proceed as if you have installed the 4cd version which I have not. Can you install this directly from the DVD and not the folder or do I still need to copy the contents of the folder onto the hdd? Though I haven't got it installed yet I was trying to run the crack to get the CD key and it was saying that it was missing another dll. All in all this in not working for me. I have a MacBook Pro 2.5 with the Gforce 8600. Any help with this would be appreciated. In the meantime I think I'll try to install KOTOR 2 or CoX. Thanks in advanced.
Hi avarchillion, thanks to your great tips I have installed the game and it plays fine (on a Mac mini). There's only a little window in the lower left corner with an inverted image of part of the screen. It updates as the player moves around and I find it annoying.
Do you know of a setting to change or a trick to get rid of it?
oooookay, let me try to rephrase this:
put the sound files into the "sound" folder in the "Fable the lost chapters" "data folder". then do the same with the video files, but put them into the "video" folder.
the winecfg is a programm 'inside' crossover games. click on 'manage bottles', choose the fable bottle you created and click on 'control panel'. there you will find the winecfg tool. double-click on it and choose 'graphic'. there you can emulate monitor.
another thing that seems to be a problem is, the version of crossover games.
I found out, by playing a few games, that there is a huge difference between, for example, version 7.1.1 and version 7.2.
you can play games like "evil genius" or "armies of exigo" only with version 7.1.1. some games wont even start with 7.2.
AND if you find a regression with a game, even if it is unsupported, please write in and tell us about it. We would like a new ticket for each game (please try not to write us a ticket reporting five games that no longer work...). If we can reproduce the game working on CrossOver Games 7.1.x and not working on 7.2 we will look into it further.
Hi avarchillion, thanks to your great tips I have installed the game and it plays fine (on a Mac mini). There's only a little window in the lower left corner with an inverted image of part of the screen. It updates as the player moves around and slows the game down.
Do you know of a setting to change or a trick to get rid of it?
hm, you can try running the game in a window. your problem sounds like a problem with the screen resolution so try playing around with that (set your resolution, in game, to 800x600 for example).
tell me how that works out.
With another couple of titles that required mfc42.dll being copied into the same
bottle, one of our all-powerful ninjas whispered to me that a possible solution
to doing this, was to install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable package
into the same bottle, using the cxinstallwizard 'show all service packs and deps.'
button, this target is in the list. This actually worked and removed the requirement
to obtain/copy mfc42.dll into place. Note there are several different versions of
mfc42.dll in itself, so YMMV is probably involved there - point is, if installing
the above supported COG package is an effective solution vis the need for mfc42.dll,
then we should use that if we can...