Professional Documents
Culture Documents
July 2005
© 2005 Lionhead Studios Limited. All rights reserved.
Welcome to Fable: The Lost Chapters. This file contains information to help you install, start
playing, and troubleshoot the game. You can find more information about Fable: The Lost
Chapters on the official web site at www.microsoft.com/games/fable.
CONTENTS
A. Installing
B. Starting
C. Playing
D. Additional Features
E. Uninstalling
F. Known Gameplay Issues
G. Known Hardware Issues
H. Video Card Manufacturer Sites
A. Installing
System Requirements
Fable: The Lost Chapters requires a personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP. It also
requires a processor speed of 1.4 gigahertz (GHz) or higher, at least 256 megabytes (MB) of
RAM, and a 64 MB video card with Shader 1.1 support.
B. Starting
You can play the game after you have installed it on your computer. To play, you must have the
Fable: The Lost Chapters CD 1 in your CD-ROM drive.
C. Playing
Tutorials: There are several tutorials to help you learn how to play the game. They appear at
specific points to help you progress through the game.
Viewing the game manual: The game manual can be found on Fable: The Lost Chapters Disk
1, in the Manuals folder. AdobeReaderallows you to view and print this file. You can
download the free Adobe Reader software at www.adobe.com.
D. Additional Features
Using the Photo Journal in Fable: The Lost Chapters: You can take screenshots during
gameplay and view them in the Photo Journal. To take a screenshot, press the Print Screen key
on your keyboard. To take a screenshot with the in-game HUD hidden, press Shift+Print
Screen.
E. Uninstalling
To uninstall Fable: The Lost Chapters
1. Click Start.
2. Point to All Programs.
3. Point to Microsoft Games.
4. Point to Fable: The Lost Chapters.
5. Click Uninstall Fable: The Lost Chapters.
The game runs too slowly: You can increase game performance by lowering the game’s
graphics settings.
Shadow Effects are quite GPU-intensive, so the largest single performance benefit will
come from disabling shadows by moving this slider all the way to the left.
Effects Detail governs water translucency and ripple effects, the second most GPU-
intensive effect. Move this slider all the way to the left to increase performance.
Mesh Detail includes draw distances and waving grass effects. Moving this slider all the
way to the left will drastically reduce draw distances and remove the grasses, yielding a
performance gain.
Texture Detail regulates the sharpness and detail level of all objects in the Fable world;
a modest performance gain may be noticed by lowering the level of Texture detail.
Resolution reduction will also help performance. Decreasing resolution by one level will
certainly help in-game performance. For example, if performance on your machine at
1024 x 768 is below your expectations, try reducing the resolution to 800 x 600.
Game Dialogue is inaudible, plays at a reduced volume, or is intermittent: If you are using
headphones, or your speaker setup includes only two speakers, you might need to adjust your
Windows speaker setting to improve audibility of in-game dialogue.
Spellcasting with the Arrows keyboard scheme: The manual indicates that when you use the
mouse for spellcasting under the Arrows keyboard scheme, you should hold down the Right
Shift key. The correct procedure is to hold down the Right Ctrl key.
Cannot hear in-game dialogue: If you cannot hear the in-game dialogue, it might be because
the in-game music is too loud. You can lower the music volume and/or increase the dialogue
volume.
Note: You can also turn on subtitles from the Options menu.
If you press Alt+Tab to switch from the game to Windows or another application, the
mouse cursor may disappear: To restore the mouse cursor, press the Windows key or press
Alt+Tab to return to the game. You can then press the Windows key to minimize the game and
return to the desktop.
Videos load slowly: If you are running Windows Media Player 8 instead of the latest version,
there might be an initial delay before the video loads. To address this issue, update to the latest
version of Window Media Player, which can be found at
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia.
Brightness might reset to default settings if the user presses Alt+Tab to leave and return
to the game: If you have changed the Brightness setting from its default setting and press
Alt+Tab to leave and return to the game, the brightness might change back to its initial setting.
To readjust brightness
1. Press Esc to display the In-game menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Video Options and change the setting as desired.
LCD monitors provide poor image quality at non-native resolutions: Check your monitor
documentation or monitor manufacturer web site for information on your monitor’s native
resolution.
For some video cards with 64MB of memory or more, an error message might appear
stating that your video card is below minimum requirements: Your card might actually have
64 MB of memory, but it does not provide vertex and pixel shader support, which the game
requires. Check your video card documentation or card manufacturer web site for information on
your card’s capabilities.
Fable will not launch on Creative Sound Blaster Audigy sound cards with driver version
5.12.0001.0129: Update to a newer driver version from www.creative.com.