December 2015
Recently purchased Spore through Steam. Not the first time I've purchased the game; I purchased both the standard(twice) and the collector's edition, plus all the DLC. It used to run great, but for some reason it keeps crashing on me -- which means no chance for the achievement you get when playing from Cell Stage to Space Stage
Not only that, I can't get through maybe 10 minutes of game play before the crashes happen. I'm still in Creature Stage, and the crashes normally happen when I die or when I start attacking other creatures. I've read the forums on Steam and people are saying that you can't run Spore on Windows 8.1, which is the system I'm running on. Are there any fixes for this? I've tried running the game through the normal .exe and through the Galactic Adventures .exe.
Please help?
I really enjoy this game and would like to be able to play it.
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December 2015
@Bungledess87, Hi
Ah nope thats absolutely not true.
Fact is: Spore runs without problems even on Windows Pro 10 64 version.
I myself have it just last weekend moved on the system, before I played it on MBP -> Macbook Pro 2014. It is important that you have a good configured operating system.
Spore is very sensitive to these things.
Delete the graphics cache, they often causes this problems
https://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/4721.pag
Starts the game in compatibility mode
Hope this will helps!
Cheers
Liz
December 2015
@Bungledess87, Hi
Ah nope thats absolutely not true.
Fact is: Spore runs without problems even on Windows Pro 10 64 version.
I myself have it just last weekend moved on the system, before I played it on MBP -> Macbook Pro 2014. It is important that you have a good configured operating system.
Spore is very sensitive to these things.
Delete the graphics cache, they often causes this problems
https://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/4721.pag
Starts the game in compatibility mode
Hope this will helps!
Cheers
Liz
December 2015
Thanks so much ! This guide actually didn't help much, it still ended up crashing, but I followed the directions on the link and it stopped crashing
Now I can finally play without worry lol
January 2018
Compatibility mode helped, but what really got me running was going into settings and cranking all the video settings up to max, so they matched my LED monitor. Easy Peasy, should not have taken me 4 hours to figure it out.
August 2018
September 2018
June 2021
ok, srsly dude. this comment keeps coming up and its not helpful. What is compatibility mode, and how do i do it.
August 2021
maybe follow the instructions above
March 2022 - last edited March 2022
@Freggi-Liz please for the love of god help me this is driving me insane like all i want to do is play spore and this is so complicated ive spent 4 hours trying to make the game not crash at all, number 1 i dont even have a compatlibity tab when i go to Properties in spore number 2 when i try to follow a guide to adding it the things it tells me to go to aren't even there and 3 i just want to play some spore and nothing is working can you please add me on discord: StonedRaccoon#4210 or atleast reply? i really just wanna defeat the grox im more than half way done and i just cannot play spore without fixxing the crashing. please help me i'll do anything
February
HI, PLS TELL ME YOU SOLVED IT SOMEHOW? (, I have the same problem