I am not able to play spore on my mac book pro, it won't load.

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

@Appeljunior

Make sure that you did not activate Origin in the game

It blocks the game on startup and you get a black screen 🙂

@Freggi-Liz

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?

@Appeljunior

I use the following settings for MBP 2015

These settings work best without problems

Navigate  to Settings, Graphics Settings

@Freggi-Liz

Do you play in windowed or in fullscreen mode?

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@Freggi-Liz

Do you play in windowed or in fullscreen mode?

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Playing in windowed mode

@Freggi-Liz

Oh oké because whenever I use the windowed mode the game shifts to the top of my screen in such a manner that I can't see half of the screen and my cursor doesn't match what i want to click

BTW I also have a Macbook Pro 15" from 2015

@Freggi-Liz

Nevermind! I managed to make it work myself!

Thanks for all your help, without you it wouldn't have been possible for me !

You truly are a hero!

@Appeljunior

It's great to hear that your game is running. Thanks for your wonderful feedback. 🙂

Enjoy Spore 🙂

/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.