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vastcarter12
5 years ago
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spore crashing when dying creature stage

I've had issues with this damn game before but this is getting a bit ridiculous every time i die in the creature phase the game crashes. I don't save very often so i usually get pushed right back at the beginning, i'm getting sick of this. Please help im not good with files and crap like that so id prefer to have a simple solution (Steam version) 

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  • foodandart's avatar
    foodandart
    5 years ago
    @Freggi-Liz

    I am having the same issue as vastcarter12 with Spore.

    Can't get far in the creature stage as every time I get killed, I get the system crash with an R6025 - pure virtual function call error - which I know is the Microsoft C++ library problem..

    It is a bit trickier to repair as I am using OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) - AND using the original DVD. (I followed your excellent install instructions, and set the flowbackbuffer in the Cider pane, and it starts just fine -Thank you! - but crashes when my little creature is killed.)

    I have deleted the game, in case the save file is corrupted and started a new planet and this is still happening.

    Have deleted the Transgaming cache files as well. Reinstalled the full game once already.

    I do not have the ability to get the patch to 5.1 (Get Info on Spore.app shows version as 4.00.0000.2756) as my game was used first by a relative who 'borrowed' my DVD and logged the serial number in and never told me - I have never been able to get it online because of that. (we stopped talking to each other a long time ago)

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks!

    Deb. 🙂
  • Battletard666's avatar
    Battletard666
    5 years ago

    So basically if you're playing on EA play you're boned....this sucks. EA makes great games and extremely poor decisions when it comes to implementing them into a marketplace. Cant play online, cant use origin, cant mod. This might as well be a demo.

  • Battletard666's avatar
    Battletard666
    5 years ago

    Wait. I dont think a patch is needed at all. Just increase you're VRAM to the specified level in the settings. Set priority to high and turn off CPU affinity for core 0. This should fix the issue on modern PCs. If you are running a system from the same era as the game this wont work and you may need the patch. I used process lasso to permanently set the program to these settings and everything is fine now.

  • spyrozim's avatar
    spyrozim
    4 years ago

    yeah me too along with the login failing its a couple of bugs that EA told me they have to fix

  • Panther204's avatar
    Panther204
    4 years ago

    How??? I literally know nothing about any of this and I can't find how to do what you just said anywhere. I found game cache settings or something like that. Which I think is what VRAM is... But I could not find anything else you talked about.

  • mathaeliku2020's avatar
    mathaeliku2020
    4 years ago

    Im a little late but what is process lasso. I know how to increase priority for games through the task manager, Ive been doing it that way for years but it never saves the settings. Is there another way to do it that makes it so I don't have to manually do it every time I open the game?

  • 112547621's avatar
    112547621
    3 years ago

    Thanks for the help. But I don't know where is the VRAM. I just adjusted the settings to high.

  • Midrealm's avatar
    Midrealm
    Rising Novice
    1 year ago

    This feels like some Star Trek * technobabble. There is no instructions, just recitation of nonsense that seems like it is saying something.
    You might as well have said - "Set the proton gliders to full negative then reverse the polarity of the impulse colliders" makes just as much sense.
    When posting a solution to something, please do not assume everyone has your skill set.

    "Just increase you're VRAM to the specified level"
    -- how does one do this and what is the 'specified level'? Where is it specified?

    "Set priority to high"
    -- priority of what?

    "turn off CPU affinity for core 0"
    -- again, how?


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