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Sharples65
3 years ago

Re: Creepy and cute not showing up / Not working

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
    3 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.

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    GabrielDood
    3 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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