Steam Spore Crashing
Recently purchased Spore through Steam. Not the first time I've purchased the game; I purchased both the standard(twice) and the collector's edition, plus all the DLC. It used to run great, but for some reason it keeps crashing on me -- which means no chance for the achievement you get when playing from Cell Stage to Space Stage ☹️
Not only that, I can't get through maybe 10 minutes of game play before the crashes happen. I'm still in Creature Stage, and the crashes normally happen when I die or when I start attacking other creatures. I've read the forums on Steam and people are saying that you can't run Spore on Windows 8.1, which is the system I'm running on. Are there any fixes for this? I've tried running the game through the normal .exe and through the Galactic Adventures .exe.
Please help?
I really enjoy this game and would like to be able to play it.
@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.
- Disable all background programs during the time where you are playing
- Check that you have installed all the latest graphics driver
- Choose never a higher screen resolution, since this does not support Spore
- Because these are the things that may crash the game
- 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.pag
e Starts the game in compatibility mode
- Right click on the Spore Icon
- Properties
- Choose compatibility tab
- Choose a Windows version,
- and set a flag in 'Run this program as an administrator'
- Say OK
- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/older-programs-compatible-version-windows
Hope this will helps!
Cheers
Liz
