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Freggi-Liz
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10 years ago

Re: Steam Spore Crashing

@Bungledess87, Hi

Ah nope thats absolutely not true.

Fact is:  Spore runs without problems even on Windows Pro 10 64 version.

I myself have it just last weekend moved on the system, before I played it on MBP -> Macbook Pro 2014. It is important that you have a good configured operating system.

Spore is very sensitive to these things.

  1. Disable all background programs during the time where you are playing
  2. Check that you have installed all the latest graphics driver
  3. Choose never a higher screen resolution, since this does not support Spore
  4. Because these are the things that may crash the game
  5. You can the game switch into the compatibility mode, read below

Delete the graphics cache, they often causes this problems

https://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/4721.page

Starts the game in compatibility mode

  1. Right click on the Spore Icon
  2. Properties
  3. Choose compatibility tab
  4. Choose a Windows version, 
  5. and set a flag in 'Run this program as an administrator'
  6. Say OK
  7. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/older-programs-compatible-version-windows

Hope this will helps!

Cheers

Liz

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Thanks so much ! This guide actually didn't help much, it still ended up crashing, but I followed the directions on the link and it stopped crashing 🙂 

    Now I can finally play without worry lol 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Compatibility mode helped, but what really got me running was going into settings and cranking all the video settings up to max, so they matched my LED monitor. Easy Peasy, should not have taken me 4 hours to figure it out.

  • Kordlite's avatar
    Kordlite
    4 years ago

    ok, srsly dude. this comment keeps coming up and its not helpful. What is compatibility mode, and how do i do it.

  • Dylan_Gamer13's avatar
    Dylan_Gamer13
    4 years ago

    @Freggi-Liz please for the love of god help me this is driving me insane like all i want to do is play spore and this is so complicated ive spent 4 hours trying to make the game not crash at all, number 1 i dont even have a compatlibity tab when i go to Properties in spore number 2 when i try to follow a guide to adding it the things it tells me to go to aren't even there and 3 i just want to play some spore and nothing is working can you please add me on discord: StonedRaccoon#4210 or atleast reply? i really just wanna defeat the grox im more than half way done and i just cannot play spore without fixxing the crashing. please help me i'll do anything

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