Can't get Spore to run on Mac OS X El Capitan

It would be much appreciated if someone could contact me with a solution ASAP 🙂

Hi @CadeTheCool,

first disable your Time Machine while playing Spore, it can interfere with this process 

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@CadeTheCool wrote:

 "An update for Spore is available. Would you like to update? (Y/N)".

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Say no, launch the game via Cider

Go to"APPLICATIONS" click on the "SPORE" folder
Make a right click and select "SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS"
Click on the Contents Folder
Afterwards on the MacOS Folder and with double click select either cider or cider_noui exce

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@CadeTheCool wrote:

 The error message reads "Exception Raised. Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at adress 0x00ab5250. Do you wish to debug it? (Y/N)". Pressing yes or no at this prompt will crash the game immediately. At the very beginning, if I press "yes"

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Say no and switch the Backbuffer from 0 to 1

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Spore/I-am-not-able-to-play-spore-on-my-mac-book-pro-it-won-t-load/m-p/5325069#U5325069

Read here other tips for Mac
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Spore/Read-before-posting-Spore-MASTER-FAQ-2015-2016/m-p/4802582#U4802582

If nothing has helped, write me your Mac model with all your specs

Cheers

Liz

Hey Liz. I followed all of your instructions and the only difference is that the screen turns white now as the launch window is loading. I still get the exact same "Exception Raised. Unhandled page fault..." error, even with the fbobackbuffer set to "1". As you requested, here is my model and specs. It's a 13-inch Macbook Pro (though the size shouldn't matter) running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5. The processor is a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5. Memory: 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536MB. The Macbook is from 2012, but It's still in excellent shape and I've never had any issues with speed or performance. Also I still have a ton of unused memory and what should be enough RAM to run the game. Keep in mind that I've been able to run the game many times in the past without much issue. If you can think of another solution or you need more info, let me know.

Thanks for the help.

Okay from the hardware should work @CadeTheCool

Navigate to the following path
~/Library/Preferences/SPORE Preferences/

and delete these two files
system.reg
user.reg

Perhaps have you a corrupt registry

Afterwards start Spore again.
The game need round about 30-90 sec. loading time , before the Maxis logo shown up

Good luck

~Liz

Wow thanks for your kind feedback, I really appreciate it @CadeTheCool

I am pleased if you could launch it, from now it should run.

I switch your answer as solved. Thanks again for your great feedback.

Cheers

Liz

Thanks for all the help, Liz, But I've now been struck with a new problem. ☹️ Maybe you could help me out again?

Here's the link: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Spore/Spore-Exception-Raised-Unhandled-Page-Fault-Mac/m-p/5445522#M7360

you legend 2 days ive been working on this. your solution is the simplest and fastest