Fable 2 PC 2023 Ultimate Guide | Xenia + Fixes | xCloud

welcome to my complete guide on the best ways to play Fable 2 on PC in 2023 there are two ways to do this and I'll cover them both the Xenia emulator and Xbox cloud gaming AKA xcloud first I'll compare the pros and cons of Xenia and xcloud followed by a guide on how to get Xenia setup in the best way possible with all recommended fixes so let's start with the most exciting one the Xenia emulator this is the as far as I'm aware only Xbox 360 Emulator let's start with xenia's Pros uncapped frame rates not even your series X can do this for some reason Fable 2 never got a frame rate boost on Console giving Xenia a huge benefit from the start unkept resolution Xenia can output any resolution that's a multiple of 1280x720 this does mean that you can't output 1080p but you can output 1440p and 4K in theory you can go even higher than this this is much better than xcloud which is only going to give you a comp press 1080p stream no input delay at least no additional input delay this is quite a big deal because the game already suffers from its own input delay no subscription is required and you will always have access to your game this is in comparison to xcloud's 13 pound subscription which we'll get onto later no Reliance on internet capabilities no matter where you are as long as you have a good PC Xenia and a dump of the game you can play it graphical Fidelity is unmatched this is kind of a combination of the first two points but it's worth stressing when it comes into a comparison with xcloud potential for modding I know this sounds crazy but it exists I've done quite a lot of work on modding the game things like simple cheats to entirely new quests jobs and mechanics are possible and one last small point you can even open the guild Cape chest and receive Hal's armor the chicken suit and a bunch of other things I bet you didn't know existed now the sad part the comms firstly you need a decent PC I haven't done any benchmarks with the different systems or anything but as a minimum for a reasonably okay time I predict you need something like a GTX 970 the Xenia documentation lists a 980 TI is recommended and it's probably right the game crashes sometimes a lot sometimes not your mileage may vary I can semi-consistently play over an hour without a crash over a 20-hour playthrough I crashed nine times which comes out to less than one crash every two hours I did play in maybe one to two hour sessions so I might have dodged the crashes that were creeping closer the crashes and the bugs that I'll get until later are both definitely the biggest downsides save corruption this definitely happens sometimes but generally I haven't really experienced it that much myself this is easy to circumvent as you have the ability to Simply back up your saves which now that I think about it the new consoles don't let you do and safe corruption is a thing on Console remember back in the day when your favorite so far got corrupted and there was nothing you could do well on Xenia to backup you save you only have to copy and paste it ironically enough you'll be safer on Xenia than on xcloud that is as long as you remember to back up your save bugs there are three main books added by the emulator they're all reasonably annoying the most known book is the black texture book this makes your characters and your dog's textures Pitch Black there is a fix under patch for this but I'll get on to that good stuff at the end the second book is the exploding dog bug this book causes vertex explosions on the dog's mesh it is the most annoying bug of the three in my opinion but there is some good news it seems someone in the Xenia Discord noticed that there's a way to get rid of this bug entirely I'll talk about that later third book is the flickering lighting this has something to do with the Zen buffer and it causes Shadows to be improperly calculated half the time so Shadows go on Shadows go off at a very rapid rate this book only happens if you upscale I have found a fix for this which once again I'll get until later before I forget to mention there is also a fourth minor bug for some reason sometimes audio will skip you might be able to alleviate this by changing the max queued frames option within xenia's config and the last problem is that you need a copy of the game and an Xbox 360 to dump the game legally though people often choose to ignore this part now let's take a look at xcloud or Xbox cloud gaming as it's officially called for some reason so the pros very easy to use Now setup is required you can literally play it from your browser this is unlike Xenia which requires you to dump the game configure the emulator and then set up the patches you don't need a good PC and you can even play it on mobile though honestly that kind of sounds like torture no additional big bugs there's a couple of extremely minor ones which is just a problem with the console's emulation no additional crashes the fact there's no additional crashes or bugs is definitely xcloud's biggest strength in my opinion online multiplayer however since local cut-off gameplay is identical to online gameplay this is mostly achievable on Xenia through the usage of something like Steam remote play Xenia doesn't have the player orb so non-trading between players and now the cons requires a 13 pound or 15 subscription for some people this isn't that big of a deal as I may already have the subscription if they have an Xbox for others it's the price of the full game each month in fact the game is half price while I'm writing this and reading it so you could buy the game twice over for the price of one month xcloud doesn't include the DLCs either so you'll have to buy those separately even if you own the game of the year disc the stream is kept at 1080p it doesn't matter what resolution the game's running at if you're only being sent 1080p footage the stream is compressed and sometimes has artifacts caused by a low bit rate this can make it look like there's a layer of translucent Skittles on your screen I've heard of varied experiences with this for some it's a huge problem for others it barely exists I've heard a decent internet connection above 100 megabits a second download is vital additional input delay since the game is running on an Xbox potentially many miles from their location there will always be some input delay this is just effective game streaming if you struggled in the past with the jobs or the shooting range this is not going to make it easier for you so to sum up the comparison xcloud is more robust but of a lower quality experience it is similar to but not better than playing it on Console due to the 1080p cap and input delay if you do not have good internet it may be unplayable Xenia is less robust but when it works it's better than xcloud it lets you mod the game through the rest of my channel for more and has generally smoother gameplay until it crashes if you have an old PC or if you can't handle the hourly crashes or if you're impatient or I can't bother to set it up properly just go with xcloud and that's it for the comparison since xcloud doesn't require any setup the remainder of the video will focus on getting Fable 2 running on Xenia in the best possible way as of 2023 all download links will be in the description firstly you'll need the game's files the only legal way to get the game's files is to dump it from an Xbox 360 by installing the game to a USB and moving the USB to your PC I can't show how to do this because I don't have a capture card and there are better tutorials for this I'll leave a link to one in the description now that you have the game you'll need to download Xenia Canary Canary is labeled the experimental version of Xenia but it's really the best the biggest feature it brings that I can't believe isn't on the main version is patching patches are extremely important for Fable 2 as they can eliminate some of the aforementioned bugs and let you customize your experience a little more so let's download the patch zip extract this into the Xenia Canary folder alongside the executable before we move on to configuring the patches let's configure Xenia first there are two things we're going to configure the first is read back result basically it fixes the most prominent visual issue but halves your frame rate and doesn't let you upscale it is an alternative to some of the patches one that some people may prefer for a more true to console experience I personally don't want to sacrifice resolution and frame rate for a book that can be worked around so I'll leave this as false to disable it and the other options we're going to look at are draw resolution scale X and Y these effectively multiply the output resolution this is definitely worth increasing if your PC can handle it increasing these does cause the aforementioned flickering lighting bug but this can be fixed with the patch which we'll get onto soon I have a 1440p monitor so I'm going to set this to 2. if you have a 1080p monitor you should still set this to two if you have a good GPU if you're going for 4K I suppose you should set it to three anyway you're pretty much done now we can configure the patches this is the part where we fix the game to get it running as well as possible this can get a little confusing but it shouldn't be too bad first thing you'll need to do is figure out which version of the game you have I highly recommend getting the game of the year or platinum hits version of the game they're both the same this is because all of my patches are on that version only a couple are on some of the other versions to find which version you have launch Xenia and load the game look at the title bar for V something point something if it says 10.1 you have game of the year or platinum hits if you're on 1.0 you're on the normal version the sum of the versions like games on demand which I believe is 2.1 and the Russian and Chinese localizations but as I said none of those have my patches now we'll find the appropriate patch file go into the patches folder and find 4D 5307 F1 each of these four patch files are for a different version of the game since I have Game of the Year and have not installed the title update shown as Tu I'll go with the first goty patch open the patch file with your text editor to enable a patch simply change false to True keep in mind as I said only the game of the year version has all of my patches the ones I recommend enabling are the 1280x720 patch the disable msaa patch disable texture morphing patch and the unlock website items and unlock collectors edition items patches if you want those you can also enable the high ticket rate patch if your PC is high end it can cause instability if your PC isn't up to the task and it does cause minor problems with ascending steps but the result isn't much less laggy UI including the job meter and a more responsive game in general I do have one final patch that I haven't added to the patch file yet so you'll have to add this one manually it's a 600p patch which fixes flickering lighting it does make the game slightly blurrier but you probably won't notice while playing and it's very much worth it to remove the strobe to add this patch just copy and paste the patches code in the description to the patch file so what do each of the patches I suggested do well starting from the top to the bottom we have the 60fps patch this lights to the game run at 60 FPS rather than the 30 that consoles are kept at alternatively you can change the vsync interval option in the Xenia config next the top 80 by 720 patch this sets the resolution on the x-axis to 1280 and doesn't actually touch the y-axis this should provide a slight visual Improvement the disable msaa patch well disables MSA this does introduce aliasing artifacts but the performance increases insane a previously measured a 30 frame rate Improvement now we have my disabled texture morphing patch this is in my opinion an absolute must if not using readback resolve it fixes two of the main books both the black textures and the exploding dog book if you change the dog breed which was only discovered recently for this reason I highly recommend changing your dog breed as soon as you can you can do this by going to MoGo the trader under bowerbridge and buying one of the dog potions for 10K unfortunately by disabling the texture morphs some of them often look strange as it obviously disables the textures but the alternative is read back result the collector's edition patch allows you to get house items from the guild chest and it unlocks the whole of the Dead cave the unlock website item spatch gives you the vast majority of the items that were only obtainable from the online flash games so let's see if we've got it set up correctly launch the game and see if it says patches applied in the title if it doesn't you've either chosen the wrong patch file or not edited the patch file correctly for most of the patches you're not going to really see a difference until later on in the game which is when most of the problems present themselves but this clip here is a good indicator of what you've avoided before I forget here is a quick disclaimer the black texture bug is fixed by the disabled texture morphing patch however dies and Tattoos cannot easily be used with the patch as a also cause of the black texture book but someone did say there's a workaround apparently you can Wrangle read back resolve to generate the textures properly to do this you enable readback resolve apply the die to generate the texture quit then disable readback resolve and enable my patch oh and one last tip save often and back up your saves as mentioned earlier the emulator can corrupt saves if it crashes while saving backing up is extremely easy simply go to the Xenia directory content 4d53 whatever it was 0 001 and copy whichever save was modified latest you can put it anywhere I made a folder just outside this one and called it backups every time I'm finished playing I simply copy the folder into there and rename it to wherever I am in the main quest line also here's a quick tip you can rename your save files folder from hero00x to anything you want and it'll reflect the change in game and that is all if you're interested in modding the game check out the rest of my channel and join my Discord server over patreon if you want to support me and you'll also receive Early Access to some of my bigger mods if you do if you have any questions or problems let me know in the comments of course I refuse to end without thanking my current patrons was up dog which witch 2.0 and win tilde thank you all for your support

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Published: Mon Jul 17 2023