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Anonymous
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12 years ago

Spore won't run

Hello,

So I bought Spore through Origin. Everything downloaded fine, no hiccups. I tried to open it and it asked to update. I said yes it goes through like 4-5 updates (it calls it 3.7 TG12 I think) everything finishes and its all good. I try playing it, two icons open. The both bounce (I'm on mac btw) the light under one comes on. It quickly diasapears. Another icon quickly takes its place bounces a couple times lights up then disapears. the other one stops bouncing lights up the rectangle thing pops up with spores name on it. As soon as that closes the icon disapears and nothing happens. I un-installed it and re-installed it. This time I say no to the update and it tells me it has an error connecting to the licencing server and i should reconnect my internet and try again or contact a help person. Theres nothing wrong with my internet. So i open it again and update. This time I got a dialoge box that had setting info. I thought it was finally working so i click the box saying dont reappear. It does the exact same bounce/disapear thing it did before. I tried doing the manual 5.1 update thing they suggest and it told me it cant update on thise version of the application. As you can tell I'm not tech savvy. Im barely tech literate so if I'm doing something obviously wrong I'd like to know. Anybody know?

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  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    12 years ago

    Hey, it sounds like something is blocking Origin or the game from authenticating. Make sure you're admin, and ensure that no security software is blocking Origin or the game.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    12 years ago

    I'm having the same exact problem. I use a laptop and i am the only 'account' avalible on this computer. So in what situation would i not be an admin? and how would i fix that on a mac?