sadtransgirl/xenia-canary-gummifableii

This project is a personal, tuned fork of the Xenia Canary Xbox 360 emulator, built specifically to run the game Fable II smoothly at a higher resolution. The author, who goes by Gummi, describes it as a passion project made for personal enjoyment rather than a replacement for Xenia itself or the in progress native recompilation effort, and says they will take it down if the Xenia developers object. The fork bundles performance tuning for the CPU, Windows, and GPU settings so Fable II holds its frame rate at double resolution, along with fixes for several Fable II specific bugs such as texture glitches, a moon halo display bug, a combat crash, and freezes involving NPCs and worker threads. It also includes ready made configuration presets and the necessary game patches, so nothing needs to be set up manually for a normal playthrough. To use it, you need Windows 10 or 11, a graphics card supporting Direct3D 12 or Vulkan, and your own legally obtained copy of Fable II, since no game files are included. After downloading and extracting the release into its own folder, you launch the emulator and open your game file, the bundled configuration and patches load automatically. Two main presets are offered: a default that renders at double resolution with CAS sharpening, and an alternative that renders natively and upscales with FSR for weaker graphics cards. A separate set of presets exists for low end CPUs, which trades a brief flicker on new areas for smoother frame pacing rather than the small pause the default presets use while shaders compile. The README includes a troubleshooting section covering known visual glitches and their fixes, and credits the original Xenia and Xenia Canary projects for the emulator itself.