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Lionhead forum users complain of Fable II freezing issues
by Xav de Matos 
on Oct 22nd 2008 10:00AM
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:07AM (Unverified) said
I played fable 2 last night for 3+ hours with zero problems what-so-ever. Hopefully this is an isolated incident.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:11AM wargamer17 said
Pretty much the same for me. Played for quite a while and didn't have any problems with freezing. Didn't play online co-op tho. Is that maybe where the problem is happening?
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 2:34PM (Unverified) said
My game freezes up every time I start it. I think it has something to do with the automatic "while I was gone" coin accrue. The minute I get the money, BAM!!! Frozen.
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Posted: Nov 9th 2008 11:36AM (Unverified) said
Odd cenario with Fable II. The older X-Box 360 (2 plus years old) froze up everytime I tried to load the game. However, the new X-Box 360 (Feb. 2008) did not have a single problem over the coure of 3 plus hours of constant play. Could be an age factor with the console.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2008 3:47PM (Unverified) said
I have a MAJOR freezing issue. To the point where I got RRoD!! I have replaced the disc, and done all the steps suggested, with NO luck. I guess, till someone decides to fix this issue, I have a $70.00 drink coaster near my dead 360 console!!
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Posted: Nov 3rd 2008 3:06PM (Unverified) said
Unfroze my character!!
Grabbed the spade from the items, did the dig thing and now I'm moving and playing again.
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Grabbed the spade from the items, did the dig thing and now I'm moving and playing again.
Posted: Nov 4th 2008 2:42PM (Unverified) said
My son beat Fable 2 (with patch) with few if any freezes but he decided to create a new charactor and it started freezing at the beginning. He has made 4 or 5 new charactors and each of them experiences the same glitch. Cleaning the cd (brand new 4 day old cd) only gains a bit of advancement before it happens again.
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Posted: Dec 1st 2008 9:00AM (Unverified) said
I have played for many hours with no problems, but i just hooked up the internet for the first time to it and now with the orbs of the other players, it freezes before anything can be done... but also this is the first time i have updated to the new patch... this is also a new system from xbox, the old one 'broke'
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Posted: Dec 11th 2008 12:18AM (Unverified) said
I had an old 20 meg system and never had a problem running in low def. I got myself an Elite and a hd tv for christmas and now I cant play 20 min without a complete freeze
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 11:38AM (Unverified) said
-We recently had our 360 fixed and returned with all patches/updates. The Fable II game freezes all the time. (Dec 28 08)
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Posted: Jan 7th 2009 4:09PM (Unverified) said
We exchanged Fable II for a new disk because it was freezing up. We are having the same issue with the new disk and I know it is not the unit because we have 2 Xbox 360s and 1 is brand new Christmas and it freezes on both of them.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2009 11:43PM (Unverified) said
I've gone through 4 Fable 2s, trying a new disk and the same thing happens.
My game freezes up, and after a while, I don't even want to play anymore.
I really hope Lionhead fixes it, because it makes me really, really sad to have waited that long to play, and not being able to play without having to turn my xbox on and off. D:
And it's not my xbox because I just got it. I don't know what to do anymore, I just want my game to work. :/
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My game freezes up, and after a while, I don't even want to play anymore.
I really hope Lionhead fixes it, because it makes me really, really sad to have waited that long to play, and not being able to play without having to turn my xbox on and off. D:
And it's not my xbox because I just got it. I don't know what to do anymore, I just want my game to work. :/
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:13AM (Unverified) said
A lot of people are also complaining that Saints Row 2 has freezing issues, but i'm been playing it for about seven hours and I haven't had a single problem.
I think that people who get freeze problems in games are people who play for too long at a time and let their 360's overheat.
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I think that people who get freeze problems in games are people who play for too long at a time and let their 360's overheat.
Posted: Nov 24th 2008 7:59AM tonyf36 said
thats not true. there are alot of people who have had issues with saints row freezing up. the were a couple of blogs on gametrailers about it. if a game freezes up it doesnt always mean its your hardware with its the only game that does it then its defintley the game. these days it tends to happen a lil too much bc game devleopers just want to get the game out there and they know that if it has issues they can always patch it later where as used to they couldnt do that.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 2:14PM (Unverified) said
I've had SR lock up on me multiple times. It usually happened after playing single player, then joining a co-op game.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2009 6:17PM (Unverified) said
by my conclusion is it might be the patch or after beating the game once it wile start because i barrow from my friend and it freezes on me at the very beginning of the game when u start as a child.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:18AM (Unverified) said
I have had no problems whatsoever and i have played CO-OP online and interacted with friends(Orbs) with no problems. I also have Merged my toon and downloaded the extra content. I think people are leaving there game on to collect more gold, not a good idea!
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:25AM (Unverified) said
Actually, I have had problems freezing. Yesterday I played for a few hours, turned the box off, and resumed playing two hours later. 15 minutes in, the game froze. I can't remember exactly what I was doing, I wish I could.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:25AM damnspynovels said
I had stuttering issues for sure, but not a total lock-up.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:27AM bak said
So many hours... not one freeze up. Online co-op seems a little buggy but even online there was never any freezing.
Experienced some weird slowdown in a cave full of Hobbes the second time I visited it though. Sounded like the disc was spinning rather erratically, but it cleared up after about 15 seconds.
Holy cow what a great game despite any issues!
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Experienced some weird slowdown in a cave full of Hobbes the second time I visited it though. Sounded like the disc was spinning rather erratically, but it cleared up after about 15 seconds.
Holy cow what a great game despite any issues!
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:34AM (Unverified) said
No freezing yet, I've put in about 20 hours so far. No online co-op though.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:30AM (Unverified) said
theres a big kick with Fable 2 on the offical forums people feel that they have been shafted or something like that http://community.lionhead.com/forums/1/3144263/ShowThread.aspx
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:53AM (Unverified) said
I don't have the game yet but i sorta agree on that co-op thing. I would have wanted 2 heroes to play side by side and not just hero and a henchman.
Diablo 2 did it(8 years ago), Champions of Norrath for the PS2 did it (4 years ago) and Sacred 2 will do it next year.
I don't see how it couldn't have been done for Fable 2 (years after it was planned for the first one). :/
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Diablo 2 did it(8 years ago), Champions of Norrath for the PS2 did it (4 years ago) and Sacred 2 will do it next year.
I don't see how it couldn't have been done for Fable 2 (years after it was planned for the first one). :/
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 12:11PM (Unverified) said
but that is one thing, sharing the same camera? no camera control for the guest? that's just wrong.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:39AM djenkins83 said
I played last night for ~7 hours and I didn't freeze one time. While doing some of the jobs, blacksmith and woodcutter, it lagged a little bit every time the bar came up on the screen which is a pain when you try to hit it in the area at the right time. But other than that the game ran smoothly and didn't lag. (k1ll stealer 411 was the account i played on in case you look and say "hey he hasn't even played Fable II!)
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:42AM abelock said
I'm experiencing the freezing issue. Brought the game home yesterday, loaded it up, was prompted to download an update; I did so. Game freezes at random points and locks up the 360.... first couple freeze ups I winced as it was eerily reminiscent of the RROD symptoms... BUT no error codes or error messages; I rebooted the system about 6 times in total and did not get very far in the game. The lockup didn't occur at the same spot, always in a different are of the game. very frustrated. Other games and dvds work fine in the system. Game disc looks ok, no visible scratches.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:54AM (Unverified) said
I had this kind of issues with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. First disc had problems, returned it, second had problems, and returned it too. I read in some forums where they recommended to clear the cache of the 360 (http://vgstrategies.about.com/od/xbox360faqs/a/ClearX360Cache.htm) as I had downloaded the demo. So I cleared the cache, got a third copy and it has been working great since.
Don't know if this applies, but couldn't hurt.
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Don't know if this applies, but couldn't hurt.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 10:56AM (Unverified) said
I haven't gotten on LIVE with it yet and I've had zero problems. So I'd bet that the main freezing issue has to do with the patch. Y'know, the one that I didn't download.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:03AM (Unverified) said
i thought my disc was wonky because it froze twice in the first 20 minutes of gameplay. the first freeze came immediately after the lady convinces us to buy the magic box, the second came after that douchebag shot my sister and i fell out his window.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:04AM (Unverified) said
18 hours straight and no problems, not one problem since i got it a week ago
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:11AM djenkins83 said
To the one guy that said he got it a week ago, what's your gamertag because I don't believe you. Next thing is anyone that has the game that wants to play can you send me a friend request to "K1ll Stealer 411" I have no one on either of my tags with the game yet and I want to try it out!
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:35AM damnspynovels said
It's quite plausible you know. Two of my work colleagues have had it longer - considering they received press release versions in order to review it.
And another has a modded xbox and he downloaded it - presumably a rip of one of the press copies.
It's a big world out there. There's always someone who gets something before anyone else.
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And another has a modded xbox and he downloaded it - presumably a rip of one of the press copies.
It's a big world out there. There's always someone who gets something before anyone else.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:25AM Knight Marquise said
Haven't had any problems to date with it. Damn awesome game.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:27AM damnspynovels said
I've seen a few bugs in there as well. Once I was chopping wood seemingly with an invisible axe.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:36AM damnspynovels said
me too, and i forgot about the sync thing - sometimes the audio / dialogue comes along way, way after the visual action that's presumably meant to accompany it has happened.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:46AM (Unverified) said
8+ hours into it and no freezing at all. But it is retarded that you can't search for Co Op games.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 11:47AM (Unverified) said
i played it for a good 3 hrs with no freezing problems.
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Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 12:17PM (Unverified) said
I played for ( hours yesterday ZERO issues, other than the lack of sleep, Fable 2 is Epic.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2008 12:36PM (Unverified) said
Bought the game yesterday and by girlfriend played for 4+ hours while I was at work, pre-update.
I got home, downloaded the update and I couldn't get more than 2 minutes into the game without it freezing and locking up the system.
My girlfriend comes home and starts playing the game (after I cleared the cache) and her saved game freezes up 5 minutes in.
Either way, I'm super pissed.
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I got home, downloaded the update and I couldn't get more than 2 minutes into the game without it freezing and locking up the system.
My girlfriend comes home and starts playing the game (after I cleared the cache) and her saved game freezes up 5 minutes in.
Either way, I'm super pissed.
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