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GabrielDood
2 years ago
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Creepy and cute not showing up / Not working

I have spore on the EA app and everything works fine. But I can't get creepy and cute to work. I have it bought, installed on my system but whenever I open in, whether it be spore or galactic adventu...
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    GabrielDood
    2 years ago

    Ok, I figured it out. I had to install spore in my D drive. If you install it in the C drive it will not work, for some reason. This explains why it only functions off of steam because it was installed in my D drive, but steam didn't have C&C with it.

    Thanks for the help!

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Sharples65
2 years ago

You should not have to copy and paste, they should work out of the box.

As for being unable to uninstall Spore and Creepy & Cute, you can simply delete the files associated with it at that specified location. Are you still using Origin? It's been depreciated and now runs under EA App.

Personally, I'd recommend doing the following:

1. Deleting all Spore files located at C:\Program Files\EA Games

2. Deleting the 'Spore' folder located at C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming. Note, AppData is hidden by default. Type Windows + R and type in %appdata% to get to the folder.

3. Uninstall the Origin launcher completely and download the EA App located at: https://www.ea.com/ea-app

4. Login to your account on the EA App and download Spore again, make sure addons like 'Creepy & Cute' and 'Galactic Adventures' are also being installed.

5. Load Spore up (not Galactic Adventures) first. And see if the Creepy & Cute parts are in the Creature editor. If they aren't, try the Galactic Adventures application.

Hopefully the parts will be there.

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GabrielDood
2 years ago

Welp I gave it a go. Might I add not the first time because my first thought as to what I could do to rid of the files is to get rid of it manually, but I hadn't tried getting rid of the appdata folder though, I never thought of it because that's where my saves were. Unfortunately it didn't change anything, as I'm still stuck without my precious c&c. Also I already had the EA app installed so I just ignored that step. I also did some more digging on my own as to what could be the issue

I have 2 spore files, one for EA and one for steam, as since I own them on both platforms I have 2 separate files for them. I don't have any expansion packs on steam, on origin is where galactic adventures and creepy and cute is. I originally thought that maybe it wasnt popping up because spore on steam was installed on my D drive but that didn't seem to do it. Theyre both on my C drive now but theyre still in separate folders.

My goal isn't to merge them though I just want my c&c. Whenever I inspect or slightly change the EA folder for spore it doesnt work ( just gives me error 1004 , which I mean I'm not surprised I changed the folders ) the repair feature doesn't work so I reset all the changes I did, still doesn't work so I use the steam version and now both versions suddenly work once I open the steam version. So I use steams repair feature and it tells me "one file was missing and will be corrected" so I go in, No I don't have my c&c and now the EA version doesn't work, its giving me 1004 again. So I go back in the steam version and it works fine but no I dont have c&c. But now the EA version works now that I open steam but no theres still no c&c

Upon reinstalling the game all the mentioned files were in there place in BP1Data

I can understand this is difficult to interpret but its the best I can explain as this is quite the conundrum

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    Sharples65
    2 years ago

    You should never have two copies of Spore. Especially on the same drive. The reason for this is because all your graphical, pollination, save files are located at C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Spore - It's been known to cause constant headaches, and maybe that's the reason why your Creepy and Cute parts aren't loading.

    Like previously, I'd recommend uninstalling, or deleting all folders. Both from Steam and EA App. I will go through the process once again:

    1. Go to C:\Program Files\EA Games - Delete 'Spore' folder.

    2. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common - Delete 'Spore' folder and anything relating to Spore.

    3. Go to C:\Users\Sharp\AppData\Roaming - Delete 'Spore' folder and anything related to Spore in this directory. - If 'Appdata' is hidden use Windows + R then type %appdata%

    Then go into the EA App and install Spore, Creepy & Cute first. Then install Galactic Adventures later. All you're doing here is confirming the existance of Creepy and Cute on 'Core Spore', not 'Galactic Adventures'.

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      GabrielDood
      2 years ago

      I followed the steps, and it seems that spore now wont work without the steam version. I've had this problem before, when I first bought spore off of steam then redeemed it on origin so I could make an account , the origin version wouldn't work if I had uninstalled the steam version, even though I didn't need it, and this was on a different computer. Now that I have uninstalled all the spore files  and only installed the game off of the EA app, it won't work. Specifically it's giving me error 1004 "couldn't find  default preferences, the data directory is missing or corrupt" and a second one pops up "error 1004 could not find a needed package, the data directory is missing or corrupt" then the game closes.. Unless I install the steam version and open it and it miraculously starts working again, still without creepy and cute though.

    • GabrielDood's avatar
      GabrielDood
      2 years ago

      Ok, I figured it out. I had to install spore in my D drive. If you install it in the C drive it will not work, for some reason. This explains why it only functions off of steam because it was installed in my D drive, but steam didn't have C&C with it.

      Thanks for the help!

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