Crashing on spell use

[YardGnomeNinja]

Whenever I use the "Charge" spell, the game crashes and displays the message "pure virtual function being called while application was running (gls running == 1)".

I've seen others state that this crash and error happens for other reasons, including casting "Multistrike" or "Berserk", changing spells, and for some poor users simply trying to access the main menu it crashes during the book opening animation.

It appears with the closing of Lionhead nearly two years ago, there's little to no chance that this game will ever see another patch. And to top it off, these issues were reported shortly after the release of the game and were never fixed.

So, my question is, has anyone ever experienced these issues and found a way around them?

[The Carter ❤]

I'm getting the same crash with Multistrike, haven't tried using berserk or charge cause i'm still early in the game. The game seems to be broken and there's little interest in resolving these issues, don't think i'll be continuing with fable anniversary.

[YardGnomeNinja]

I will say, I just finished the game with very few issues otherwise. Certainly nothing that was a guaranteed crash like these spells. I tried out the first level of each of the other spells and found them all to work for me.

[The Carter ❤]

Fixed it by running the game in windows 7 compatibility mode. I'd tried 8 before with no joy so I never bothered trying anything else until now, glad I got it working though. Another minor issue is achievements aren't unlocking on my steam profile, oh well.

[YardGnomeNinja]

Nice! Glad to hear compatibility mode helped with the spells! I believe I had that issue with achievements until I unintentionally opened it via Big Picture Mode and I had a cascade of achievements unlock.

[*****boyray516]

I know this is several years later, but i too was having issues with the game crashing every time i tried to cast certain spells. I found it was because i had Playstation controller support turned on. Once i turned that off it started working perfectly again.

Go to Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings
uncheck Playstation Configuration Support

[Ammumu]

Dude, you are a legend for posting this