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)

@vastcarter12 Hi, please jump into this topic https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bugs-Technical-Issues/Read-before-posting-Spore-MASTER-FAQ-for-PC-amp-MAC/m-p/4802582#M5969 There are instructions on how to clear the in-game cache and how to expand the in-game graphics in Spore

spore crashing when dying creature stage

12 Replies

Freggi-Liz
Hero+
6 years ago
@vastcarter12 Hi,

please jump into this topic

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bugs-Technical-Issues/Read-before-posting-Spore-MASTER-FAQ-for-PC-amp-MAC/m-p/4802582#M5969

There are instructions on how to clear the in-game cache and how to expand the in-game graphics in Spore
foodandart
6 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. 🙂
Freggi-Liz
Hero+
6 years ago
@foodandart Hi Deb 🙂

The problem is. You will only receive the Spore Patch 5.1 from Origin. If you register your game and play it as a Digital Download

http://www.spore.com/patch

Contact a game advisor

https://help.ea.com/en/help/faq/using-ea-help/

I know the whole thing arefrustrating. Unfortunately there is no other idea or fix . Thanks for your great praise, I greatly appreciate that 🙂
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
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
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
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
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
3 years ago
Thanks for the help. But I don't know where is the VRAM. I just adjusted the settings to high.
Midrealm
Rising Novice
2 years 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?