I am not able to play spore on my mac book pro, it won't load.
Spore never loads when i press the play button.
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im doing everything it still wont work i got the best apple computer the newest imac and it does not work my dad payed $20 for this game
This is an older game, it is important that you run it in the window mode. It does not support the latest graphics cards and screen resolutions
Go to Origin in your library, click on the cover, you see a gearwheel (Settings).
Then go under Game Properties, then under Advanced launch options. In the command line, enter this command -w. Say ok
After the game is there, go under the options and set the final graphics, including window mode. Say ok and close the game
Then go to the Origin option and delete the -w. Start the game again.
I hope this will help
~Liz
I have followed both of these steps and Spore continues not to load for me. I can't even get to the splash screen, it just immediately crashes.
Having the same issue now in 2018. I've tried most suggestions with zero luck, but your suggestions about finding a SPORE preferences folder and such? I don't have any spore folders. Just the application. Help!
@0UMusicKitten skrev:
Having the same issue now in 2018. I've tried most suggestions with zero luck, but your suggestions about finding a SPORE preferences folder and such? I don't have any spore folders. Just the application. Help!
Please avoid double posting. I have shared an answer to your question in this topic
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Spore/Spore-Won-t-Launch-MacBook-Pro/m-p/6735631
Thanks!
~Liz
Hi,
So i managed to get Spore working thanks to your help. However, after double clicking 'cider_noui' to get it launched, it popped up coding which continuously develops until i close it - which closes the game.
Any help to stop this? Otherwise after playing for an hour it wouldve made thousands of lines of repeated code.
It's saying:
err:dsound:DSOUND_timer could not acquire mix lock
err:dsound:DSOUND_timer failed to get the lock for the buffer 0xa6e6af0
Thanks.
i have the same issue, i wanna play spore on origin on my mac but cant...
Hi!
Whenever I put the command " -w. " in the advanced start options, my game won't start. Origin just pretends to start it, to just pop back up after a few seconds
Make sure that you did not activate Origin in the game
It blocks the game on startup and you get a black screen 🙂
Thanks for the help! My game started again, but the problem I have now is that there is some weird glitchy/buffering line running horizontally from top to bottom on my screen, which causes my game to lag real hard, have you got a solution for that?
can you make a video plzz
