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5 years ago

Spore Won't Open - Resolution Error

Whenever I try to open Spore, it just doesn't show up. The icon appears in my taskbar as if it's running, like a minimized tab, but when I click it my screen just glitches around for a second before going back to my desktop. I also sometimes get a popup saying something along the lines of "The recommended resolution for this game is 1920 x 1080" which is what my settings are currently on. I've tried opening it from both Origin and Steam, I've uninstalled and reinstalled, cleared the cache, typed the resolution into advanced settings, messed with compatibility mode, uninstalled the expansion packs and tried running it vanilla... nothing works. I'm lost for ideas and I really want to play Spore. Help please?

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  • I resolved this problem. I just changed settings so game opens only in window mode. To do that you have to change OptionFullScreen = 1 to OptionFullScreen =0 in preferences.prop file in %appdata% Spore Preferences. You can open this file with notepad.

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