http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net
To get the patch you must have EADM installed and running (it will automatically launch when you open Spore). The actual patch process should begin inside of Spore--there will not be any information in the EADM interface.

If you are unable to run the new patch, if you get an error message after it appears to successfully download the patch close Spore and please go to this path:
C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EADM\cache\
check the subdirectories--mine was in Anonymous
there is a file called:
spore_dd_patch_all_v1.exe

Disable firewalls, anti-virus, and passive file scanners.

Right click and run the patch as an Administrator (if in Vista) or try to run manually from this location. A regular install wizard should launch and walk you through the rest of the installation.

[b]It may take several minutes or more for the wizard to complete, please allow it time to run.[/b]

EDIT: SporeMasterNumerator


[size=16][b]Patch Install Failure[/b][/size]
posted but keitar6
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3328.page

First you have to run the patch and let it fail with the error about the old file missing or not the same.

When this runs it will put the installer int a temp directory such as

Vista 64 bit
C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{9DF0196F-B6B8-4C3A-8790-DE42AA530101}\1.01.0000


Go to this directory and open "setup.ini"

Down the very bottom of that page you will see

RequireExactLangMatch=0x0804,0x0404

DELETE THIS LINE

Also change the line CheckMD5=n

Save this file and then run the setup file in this same directory game will now install and runs perfectly for me.


[size=16][b]Regenerating Package Files[/b][/size]

After you have installed the patch and Spore is crashing when you start, this procedure may help.

Go to the Spore directory:

In Windows XP
\Documents and Settings\(Username)\Application Data\SPORE

In Vista
\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming\SPORE

The Application Data directory may be hidden. To display hidden files:

In the menu Tools->Folder Options->View
check "Show Hidden Files and Folders"


For backups, create a save directory called PackageBackup and move all the .package files into it EXCEPT EditorSaves.package.


Restart Spore.


"My Creations" should start to get repopulated.

It may help to enable the "Buddy Content Only" and hit yes in the popup window. Sometimes more content is added when you select this option.




You can disable the "Buddy Content Only" after "My Creations" stops getting populated.

Note: It may take a while to redownload your content from the server, but your saved games will not be affected.

If you have trouble, you can restore all your package files to their original location to undo this procedure.



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Unless there's something I'm missing. But the EA website only has a .exe from what I can find.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26112.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26112.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26117.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26117.page GMT
"Old file not found. However, a file of the same was found. No update done since contents differ."

Tried redownloading and run as admin and it still fails.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26120.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26120.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26123.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26123.page GMT [/i]
Sporemaster edit: The Creature Creator patch was released once and then pulled, then released again in a different format. This is the first and only Spore patch.

I have a few suggestions.


A) Go in game, see if the things from this new patch are in place or not. If so, then no need to do anything, except cancel out the annoying patch message till a new patch
B) If no one is willing to do a full reinstall, I will volunteer, give me a while to do file backups
C) If anyone has path/file tracking software, if they could find the file that is not patching correctly, it would be very helpful]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26132.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26132.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26137.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26137.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26138.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26138.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26144.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26144.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26148.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26148.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26150.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26150.page GMT
No. It unpacks the .cab file from what I can see, and immediately at the beginning before it does any patching it gives the error message.

Man, this is the first time ever something like this hasn't worked on my new rig that I've had for almost a year. I'm beside myself.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26153.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26153.page GMT
It does not provide this information, it speeds through a few files and then gives the above error. I thought I remember seeing something called 'setup' something in there.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26164.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26164.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26165.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26165.page GMT
Thank you.

I will inform you all if reinstallation solves the issue.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26173.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26173.page GMT
You can imagine my quandary. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26176.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26176.page GMT After installing it says: Missing old files that need to be patched (or something, I got Dutch version)
Then it didnt patch.

It seems to install the files on C:\, my Spore is on J:\ (my games section)

Can't seem to solve this? :s]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26177.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26177.page GMT It will trickle down to all the file hosting sites, you can now get it at [url=http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/12935/Spore+Patch+1.01]File Shack[/url]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26178.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26178.page GMT
Here.
[img]http://www.danyrioux.com/img/spore_patch_bug.jpg[/img]

Sorry for the size.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26185.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26185.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26187.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26187.page GMT
Every time I'm trying to instal the patch I get a message just after the unpacking (I guess) bar fills up that "No space on disc -- to install the update you need 1021381894 B of free space". The thing is... I have Spore installed on E: and it has over 80GB of free space, C: has 2.74GB free space. I have no paging files for virtual memory set on those drives.

Any thoughts and suggestions on what to try next?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26193.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26193.page GMT
Madjack: haha nice to see you on another thread

I guess I'm going to try reinstalling Spore.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26194.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26194.page GMT
edit: installed to the default location.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26195.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26195.page GMT
I've been getting the same problem.

I'm on Windows XP.

Tried installing manually from recommended directory location. Failed with same error.

I was about to try deleting it and re-downloading... but no one seems to have reported success with that yet.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26196.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26196.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26198.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26198.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26206.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26206.page GMT http://easpore.custhelp.com to request additional installations.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26213.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26213.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26215.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26215.page GMT http://easpore.custhelp.com to request additional installations.[/quote]

Yeah I figure for a reinstall you dont lose a credit.

Well, it's currently installing, I did not get the error message. So it looks like reinstalling worked. Umm I did mess around with the config files like Properties to try and fix the building baking bug (or the un-bug) so not sure if that would have done anything.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26227.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26227.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26239.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26239.page GMT
Madjack: haha nice to see you on another thread

I guess I'm going to try reinstalling Spore.[/quote]

Oh shush! :p]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26240.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26240.page GMT
You can imagine my quandary. [/quote]

Although not related to this thread, there has been a release of information from EA about relaxing the DRM in the future. Information can be found here : http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/689340/EA_To_Relax_Spore_DRM_In_Upcoming_Patch_.html

--//--

My install is complete, information to come soon from patching]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26243.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26243.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26249.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26249.page GMT
Every time I'm trying to instal the patch I get a message just after the unpacking (I guess) bar fills up that "No space on disc -- to install the update you need 1021381894 B of free space". The thing is... I have Spore installed on E: and it has over 80GB of free space, C: has 2.74GB free space. I have no paging files for virtual memory set on those drives.

Any thoughts and suggestions on what to try next?[/quote]

That is a dangerous amount of space to be left on your operating system drive.

The problem you are probabbly experiencing is a lack of pagefile room, or any other overhead the program needs to install.

All hard drives act very strangely when they are at or below 15% space, freeing up some space there should solve your problem.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26253.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26253.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26256.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26256.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26263.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26263.page GMT
[IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/of0kmt.jpg[/IMG]

System:

=============================== System =================================

CPU = Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
CPU Speed = 3197 MHz
No. of CPUs = 2
OS = Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Ver 5.01.2600
Version of DirectX = DirectX9.0c
Main Memory = Capacity:1534MB : Free Space:1057MB
Drive [C:\] = Local Disk Free Space:43.55 GB(Capacity:74.52 GB)
Drive [F:\] = Local Disk Free Space:271.17 GB(Capacity:298.02 GB)
PlayOnline Viewer Install Path = C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\
FINAL FANTASY XI Install Path = C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\
TETRA MASTER Install Path = C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\TetraMaster\
Graphics Card = NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Type of Chip = UnKnown Video Chip
Video Driver = nv4_disp.dll
Version = 6.14.11.7519
Updated = Friday, May 16, 2008 2:01 PM
VendorId = 0x10DE
DeviceId = 0x02E1
SubSysId = 0x380196E
Revision = 162
VRAM = 512.0MB
AvailableVidMem = 498.6MB
AvailableTextureMem = 552.0MB
Sound Card = SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [B800]
Sound Driver = ctaud2k.sys
Version = 5.12.01.0402-1.82.0020
Updated = Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:33 PM
Network Card = Linksys Wireless-G PCI Network Adapter with SpeedBooster
Network Driver = bcmwl5.sys
Version = 3.100.46.0
Updated = Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:01 AM
Network Card = Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
Network Driver = e100b325.sys
Version = 7.0.26.0
Updated = Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:56 PM
Motherboard = D865PERL
Manufacturer = Intel Corporation
Version = AAC27646-208
Serial Number = AZRL32815462

============================== Processes ===============================

smss.exe
winlogon.exe
services.exe
lsass.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
spoolsv.exe
avgwdsvc.exe
avgfws8.exe
Explorer.EXE
avgam.exe
avgrsx.exe
avgnsx.exe
avgemc.exe
ctfmon.exe
iexplore.exe
svchost.exe
iexplore.exe
Core.exe
polcfg.exe

========================= Installed Programs ===========================

Adobe Acrobat 5.0
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX
AVG 8.0
Microsoft Internationalized Domain Names Mitigation APIs
Windows Internet Explorer 7
FINAL FANTASY XI: Chains of Promathia
PlayOnline Viewer and Tetra Master
FINAL FANTASY XI: Wings of the Goddess
FINAL FANTASY XI
FINAL FANTASY XI: Rise of the Zilart
FINAL FANTASY XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
EA Download Manager
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB938464)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB94664
Security Update for Windows XP (KB950762)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB950974)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB951066)
Update for Windows XP (KB951072-v2)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB951376-v2)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB95169
Security Update for Windows XP (KB95174
Update for Windows XP (KB95197
Hotfix for Windows XP (KB952287)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB952954)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB95383
Security Update for Windows XP (KB953839)
Microsoft National Language Support Downlevel APIs
NVIDIA Drivers
Intel(R) PRO Network Adapters and Drivers
Creative System Information
System Requirements Lab
Winamp (remove only)
Windows XP Service Pack 3
WebFldrs XP
Logitech Gaming Software
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
SPORE™
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB936181)
BioShock

========================== Connection Test ============================

Not Checked



Hope this helps!

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26271.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26271.page GMT
That is a dangerous amount of space to be left on your operating system drive.

The problem you are probabbly experiencing is a lack of pagefile room, or any other overhead the program needs to install.

All hard drives act very strangely when they are at or below 15% space, freeing up some space there should solve your problem.[/quote]

The thing is... C: partition is only 7.81 GB big in [b]total[/b], this disc was partitioned ages ago, and since then through all those years it didn't need to be bigger. Is 2.74GB of free space (35% of total) really not enough to instal a ~90Mb patch? I have 3 gigs of paging files on other drives... And if this will be necessary I will repartition the drive and reinstall Windows but it looks like a big sacrafice to install a small patch.

That's why I have to be sure that there are no other solutions for this.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26272.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26272.page GMT
Is there anything I need to back up? The "My Spore Creations" folder seems to maintain integrity pretty well (or at least did between installation from CC to Spore), but should I back it up?

What about my save files?

What about the Sporecasts I subscribed to?

My Achievements?

Anyone know how much I should back up, if anything, before attempting a re-install?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26280.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26280.page GMT
Reinstalling works. Only thing I can think of is I edited my config files trying to make the buildings and vehicles look better, did you do that at all?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26284.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26284.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26288.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26288.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26303.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26303.page GMT
Edit: Disregard, found the file, but it is taking a lot of time and resources to apply it . Hangs at every step of the patching process and is eating my memory...

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26314.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26314.page GMT

[/quote]

In Cell Stage my creatures sounds are now delayed. I also notice that clicking on a creature in cell to get a sporecard is also delayed. The delay is about 5 to 15 seconds. For example, a mating ritual will occur but I will end up hearing the sound in the creator.

I have a sound blaster audigy 2. I was fine before the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26315.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26315.page GMT
That is a dangerous amount of space to be left on your operating system drive.

The problem you are probabbly experiencing is a lack of pagefile room, or any other overhead the program needs to install.

All hard drives act very strangely when they are at or below 15% space, freeing up some space there should solve your problem.[/quote]

The thing is... C: partition is only 7.81 GB big in [b]total[/b], this disc was partitioned ages ago, and since then through all those years it didn't need to be bigger. Is 2.74GB of free space (35% of total) really not enough to instal a ~90Mb patch? I have 3 gigs of paging files on other drives... And if this will be necessary I will repartition the drive and reinstall Windows but it looks like a big sacrafice to install a small patch.

That's why I have to be sure that there are no other solutions for this.[/quote]

Another solution is to wait for another patch, where the data is coded differently for installation. The files need to be unpacked, and they are probabbly larger than what is remaining on your hard drive, for installation to continue.

However, software engineers rarely completly overhaul their patching process, unless there is a widespread problem. In this case, all of the data is unpacked to the C: drive, there may be no way around it (but I have not explored this avenue myself, someone else may find it is possible).

If your problem turns out to be a widespread issue, you will just have to wait for the next patch. In my opinion though, that will not happen in this case.






[quote=karatta][i]I have read on other websites that the patch was released at another time, so it is possible it may have partially downloaded files, causing errors with patching.
[/i]
Sporemaster edit: The Creature Creator patch was released once and then pulled, then released again in a different format. This is the first and only Spore patch.

I have a few suggestions.


A) Go in game, see if the things from this new patch are in place or not. If so, then no need to do anything, except cancel out the annoying patch message till a new patch
B) If no one is willing to do a full reinstall, I will volunteer, give me a while to do file backups
C) If anyone has path/file tracking software, if they could find the file that is not patching correctly, it would be very helpful[/quote]


Reinstall complete, patch process worked properly now, all files intact.

Please read the following before uninstallation:

Choose the option to not delete local content. You will only get this option once. All of your saved data, including saved games and all creatures/vehicles/buildings installed from anywhere will still be intact. So will your settings.


Another option, besides investigating out what file is not working correctly with the patch, is to wait for another patch to solve your issue.

Good luck all.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26325.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26325.page GMT
Will I get sued if I host a direct download copy of this? Assuming I don't modify it in any way shape or form?

Note: Nevermind. Appears the EADM immediately deletes the file after a successful patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26330.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26330.page GMT Black screen with UI.
Just like the release, all hyped up, all let down.

Failed again.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26333.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26333.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26358.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26358.page GMT
As much as I love this game, I'd rather not have to open and close a menu just to avoid the lack of sound an invisible objects I need :O(]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26365.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26365.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26368.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26368.page GMT The thing is... C: partition is only 7.81 GB big in [b]total[/b], this disc was partitioned ages ago, and since then through all those years it didn't need to be bigger. Is 2.74GB of free space (35% of total) really not enough to instal a ~90Mb patch? I have 3 gigs of paging files on other drives... And if this will be necessary I will repartition the drive and reinstall Windows but it looks like a big sacrafice to install a small patch.

That's why I have to be sure that there are no other solutions for this.[/quote]

Third party partition software will allow you to increase partition size without having to reinstall, or you may try what i suggested on [url=http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/1058.page]this thread.[/url]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26382.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26382.page GMT
I'm currently experiencing this problem too; It IS installing, but you can't see the progress bar for much of the time, as it seems to hang at each new step of the install. Occasionally you'll see the bar quickly move from 0 along, but then it hangs at the next step again. It's hogging enormous amounts of CPU time, and has taken about 50 minutes so far, with no signs of stopping yet. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26386.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26386.page GMT
It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

If you don't have a backup here's how to fix it if you have downloaded Spore with the EADM.

Open two instances of Windows Explorer. Open the first one where Spore's config files are installed. ie: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Data\Config" (If you're on Win XP, it should be "Program Files" without the x86.) You can either delete the three files mentioned above or rename them. Don't close that explorer yet.

Open the second Explorer and go where the EADM is installed. ie: "C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EADM\" (that's for VISTA users. I don't know where it is on XP, sorry.) Next, click on CACHE, then on "{ 2263259817 }", etc until you end up in \spore_dd\Spore\Data\Config The three files you deleted in the first explorer are there and untainted. Copy those into the first explorer window and launch the Patch installer. It should work.

Hopefully I'm clear enough. It might not work for everyone though, but if you have that error message, it's worth a try.

NOW, the big question is: Since those three files are ONLY configuration options/settings/scripts, why EA/Maxis simply didn't just create NEW ones instead? Renaming the old ones? This is, again, a lack of foresight. I'm sorry if lately my comments are almost hostile, but one has to wonder how many blunders and oversight are tolerated but the managing staff. I mean, doing what I just suggested might have, what?, added a couple of Ks to the whole download at the maximum?

Anyway, I know it's falling on deaf ears but I had to say it.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26426.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26426.page GMT
I'm currently experiencing this problem too; It IS installing, but you can't see the progress bar for much of the time, as it seems to hang at each new step of the install. Occasionally you'll see the bar quickly move from 0 along, but then it hangs at the next step again. It's hogging enormous amounts of CPU time, and has taken about 50 minutes so far, with no signs of stopping yet. [/quote]

Same problem here- it seems to hang on the third file (I briefly glimpse the progress bar go from 0 to 100% twice before it hangs). Then it just hangs and sits there until I check active processes and it returns a 'Not Responding' message. Similarly there is plenty of space on my harddrive and all scanners have been disabled.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26434.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26434.page GMT
In cell sometimes my cell won't load now. If I go into the history "T" key or click the button and come back my creature will show up. I am also having texture delays. My creatures textures after cell wouldn't show up. I did a mating dance and it finally worked itself out.

So texture, sporecard and sound delays so far.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26439.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26439.page GMT
I'm currently experiencing this problem too; It IS installing, but you can't see the progress bar for much of the time, as it seems to hang at each new step of the install. Occasionally you'll see the bar quickly move from 0 along, but then it hangs at the next step again. It's hogging enormous amounts of CPU time, and has taken about 50 minutes so far, with no signs of stopping yet. [/quote]

Same problem here- it seems to hang on the third file (I briefly glimpse the progress bar go from 0 to 100% twice before it hangs). Then it just hangs and sits there until I check active processes and it returns a 'Not Responding' message. Similarly there is plenty of space on my harddrive and all scanners have been disabled.[/quote]

Exactly what happens to me. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26446.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26446.page GMT
I'm currently experiencing this problem too; It IS installing, but you can't see the progress bar for much of the time, as it seems to hang at each new step of the install. Occasionally you'll see the bar quickly move from 0 along, but then it hangs at the next step again. It's hogging enormous amounts of CPU time, and has taken about 50 minutes so far, with no signs of stopping yet. [/quote]

Same problem here- it seems to hang on the third file (I briefly glimpse the progress bar go from 0 to 100% twice before it hangs). Then it just hangs and sits there until I check active processes and it returns a 'Not Responding' message. Similarly there is plenty of space on my harddrive and all scanners have been disabled.[/quote]

If your hard drive is chugging away it is installing. It took about 20 minutes on my old system. It gave a "Not Responding" but in time it installed. As long as that hard drive light is cranking away you are fine.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26447.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26447.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26450.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26450.page GMT
It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

If you don't have a backup here's how to fix it if you have downloaded Spore with the EADM.

[/quote]

It looks like you are right on the money with this. I had edited my ConfigManager to try and get a few graphical tweaks worked out.

I am going to make a backup of all of those files right now, considering I've already reinstalled once. Good job on figuring out the solution even before the people who made the patch did. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26456.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26456.page GMT It's appreciated. At least those that encounter that problem will know what to do. That's if they take the time to READ the posts... Which I doubt most will.

It's sad actually.

Wanna bet how long it'll take to get a new post about that same problem?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26469.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26469.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26486.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26486.page GMT
Yes. Patching files using RTMPatch (the software that patch) can be dauntingly slow. The bigger the files are, the longer it'll take if your computer is not really fast. Here it took like 3-4 mins, if that, but slower computers can have a really tough time. Also, the more the memory you have, the best it is.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26495.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26495.page GMT
Are those .txt files unique for a user or are the base files the same for everybody? If the latter... could you throw those files on some server for others to download and check if this will fix the problem?

(my issue with lack of free space changed to a message about the installer not being able to find the files it wants to patch, dunno if that's what other people are experiencing as my patcher doesn't give english error messages and the one I get does not translate directly to what you guys have)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26513.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26513.page GMT It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

[/quote]

I never touched those files or any others. However, I did update the drivers for my video card a few days after installing. I thought this might have caused the problem, so I followed your advice verbatim.

Upon attempting to install the patch again I got... the exact same error. So I tried it again, only this time I moved the three old files into a backup folder instead of renaming them, I copied a fresh set of files from the EADM's folder, and deleted the patch installer file. When I opened Spore it downloaded a new one, I was set to install it again and I got... the exact same error.

"Old file not found...."

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26521.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26521.page GMT
"The setup has detected no version of Spore is installed.

This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."

I get this error from patching in game AND from running the patch directly.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26537.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26537.page GMT
Are those .txt files unique for a user or are the base files the same for everybody? If the latter... could you throw those files on some server for others to download and check if this will fix the problem?

(my issue with lack of free space changed to a message about the installer not being able to find the files it wants to patch, dunno if that's what other people are experiencing as my patcher doesn't give english error messages and the one I get does not translate directly to what you guys have)[/quote]

Those are generic configuration/scripts/options for everyone. I've made a zip files and it's linked below. I will keep these up until it's no longer necessary or until EA/Maxis ask me to remove it. Hopefully it will help one or two people. That's something I have no problem with.

Grab the files [url=http://www.danyrioux.com/img/SporeConfigFiles.zip]HERE[/url]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26552.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26552.page GMT
"The setup has detected no version of Spore is installed.

This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."

I get this error from patching in game AND from running the patch directly.[/quote]

Is it installed in the "Program Files" ?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26554.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26554.page GMT It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

[/quote]

I never touched those files or any others. However, I did update the drivers for my video card a few days after installing. I thought this might have caused the problem, so I followed your advice verbatim.

Upon attempting to install the patch again I got... the exact same error. So I tried it again, only this time I moved the three old files into a backup folder instead of renaming them, I copied a fresh set of files from the EADM's folder, and deleted the patch installer file. When I opened Spore it downloaded a new one, I was set to install it again and I got... the exact same error.

"Old file not found...."

[/quote]

I'm sorry then. It's really not possible for me to help you. Although I wish I could.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26560.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26560.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26561.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26561.page GMT
Aye, in Add/remove programs as well.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26571.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26571.page GMT
It is probably looking arctic because the textures didn't load. When a texture doesn't load in spore it will often appear almost pure white or offwhite. Lots of my creatures are having this problem as well. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26578.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26578.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26582.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26582.page GMT
Here's a cookie!

I'm sure you were asked, but do you have the latest video drivers?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26591.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26591.page GMT
Just as an update, I tried replacing the Config files in my folder with the ones you posted online, which was awfully nice of you. Unfortunately, those files didn't improve seem to help the situation either. The same error persists.

I'm glad some people are finding solutions, and I appreciate the work of all those who are figuring out those problems and sharing their results with us. I suppose at this point its time to try a re-install, but does anyone know if my save files will be preserved? Should I back anything up specifically? Thanks in advance to anyone with insights.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26604.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26604.page GMT http://easpore.custhelp.com to request additional installations.[/quote]

My understanding of the limit of 3 installs is that you can only install on three machines. I have now installed SPORE on the same machine 5 times. It does something akin to a hardware config check during validation.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26606.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26606.page GMT
Just as an update, I tried replacing the Config files in my folder with the ones you posted online, which was awfully nice of you. Unfortunately, those files didn't improve seem to help the situation either. The same error persists.

I'm glad some people are finding solutions, and I appreciate the work of all those who are figuring out those problems and sharing their results with us. I suppose at this point its time to try a re-install, but does anyone know if my save files will be preserved? Should I back anything up specifically? Thanks in advance to anyone with insights.[/quote]

Everything should be fine. AFAIK, it will ask you if you want to keep you data files, or something similar.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26616.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26616.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26624.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26624.page GMT
So i am looking for the extracted patch that wouldnt install on my hd...when i relaunch spore it instantly says downoad completed. So it has to be in here somewhere? There is no cache file in the EADM, and im not sure where or what this file would look like.

I have to say, there is a level of frustration with this game i havent experienced since Vampire bloodlines. I dont know if its due to the EADM, sloppy coding, or just a general lack of concern for customers. First its crash crash in space phase now the patch wont work. Ive been messing with it all day. Forget Dragon age and the sims 3. Im glad i got mass effect for xbox not pc. Where is the official response...the "we are working on it". The community mods here trying tohelp is great...but they arent the ones who can fix it. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26636.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26636.page GMT
I don't know how big the patch is, the downloader didn't say, but I highly suspect something's wrong there. A 3 GB patch didn't download in 3-4 mins here. I do have high speed bandwidth but not that fast.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26638.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26638.page GMT
90MB for me.


Dial-up? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26637.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26637.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26709.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26709.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26828.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26828.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26835.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26835.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

[/quote]

Yes these are the problems I am having. Lots of invisibles. The patch is unplayable. If anyone reads this don't install it. If you had no problems with the game working previously don't install this patch until the sound and graphics are fixed.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26863.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26863.page GMT It crashes without loadin]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26884.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26884.page GMT
As a further oddity, some of my creatures list in the "recently downloaded" section of the in-game Sporepedia and are correctly attributed to me but simultaneously do not show in the "My Creations" section. Note, absent creatures are not merely "blank" cards like some are experiencing. They are simply gone entirely.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26918.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26918.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26944.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26944.page GMT
Went to the menu, where it indicated that I had downloaded the patch, so I installed.

The result? It attempted to install, actually made it through the installation bar this time and then...

A new error.

"Patch Error
The patch file is invalid."

Well... at least the errors are getting more ambiguous. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26987.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/26987.page GMT
Went to the menu, where it indicated that I had downloaded the patch, so I installed.

The result? It attempted to install, actually made it through the installation bar this time and then...

A new error.

"Patch Error
The patch file is invalid."

Well... at least the errors are getting more ambiguous. [/quote]

Not lucky... Redownload the file, my guess is, it got corrupted down the line.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27014.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27014.page GMT
Who, how, where, [b]what the Groxx is going on[/b]? Why you break???

Just got game running fine, now your wrecking it? Why?

Somebody tell me what's going on please? Can you fix?

Went away for a few hours and it's all gone to $!@*!

Don't ruin my game, the Groxx do that enough anyway!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27062.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27062.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27066.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27066.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

[/quote]

Yes these are the problems I am having. Lots of invisibles. The patch is unplayable. If anyone reads this don't install it. If you had no problems with the game working previously don't install this patch until the sound and graphics are fixed.[/quote]

Ditto for me. Performance has taken a dive on everything for me since the patch, from starting up, to loading a game, to everything listed above. Cannot play the game until this patch is fixed.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27118.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27118.page GMT
I had microscope mode on and I went to edit my creature. Just when I was going to take the eyes off the game froze up and I had no choice but to end the game from the task manager.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27136.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27136.page GMT
Just as a note, this patch AND the patch for the CC both install correctly even if you install the game/CC to a different location than the default. I never install to the default location because as far as I'm concerned, games should be in a Games folder and NOT in a Program Files folder. And both patches installed fine for me other than having to put back the config files to their originals.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27144.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27144.page GMT
It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

If you don't have a backup here's how to fix it if you have downloaded Spore with the EADM.

Open two instances of Windows Explorer. Open the first one where Spore's config files are installed. ie: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Data\Config" (If you're on Win XP, it should be "Program Files" without the x86.) You can either delete the three files mentioned above or rename them. Don't close that explorer yet.

Open the second Explorer and go where the EADM is installed. ie: "C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EADM\" (that's for VISTA users. I don't know where it is on XP, sorry.) Next, click on CACHE, then on "{ 2263259817 }", etc until you end up in \spore_dd\Spore\Data\Config The three files you deleted in the first explorer are there and untainted. Copy those into the first explorer window and launch the Patch installer. It should work.

[/quote]

My c:/ProgramData/Electronic Arts/EADM/cache/{blah} directory doesn't have those files. It has the spore_dd_patch_all_v1.exe and an OfflineContents.xml file.

Nothing else.

More over, I have never edited those files (unless changing in game preferences edits them)..

I still am unable to patch and getting kinda pissed.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27156.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27156.page GMT
- Now the sound lags extremely far behind the animation. This includes game play and the sequences between stages.

- In tribal the emotes sometimes don't show up over the tribesmen which makes choosing the correct instrument to play difficult not to mention having the sound lag 5-10 seconds behind and sometimes not at all.

- The game has now crashed for the very first time.

It would be nice to be able to uninstall this patch without having to completely wipe out the game and reinstall it.

I am getting a bad feeling that even more problems are going to start showing up with this patch.

Reposted here per sporemasterkaliena instructions.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27177.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27177.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27183.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27183.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

[/quote]

My problem as well. Also it just exits while I am in the space stage on one of my save games.

Guess I'll keep playin WoW till then.

I've waited a year and a half for this game and it all went to crap when I started finding out how many problems people are having with the game. I had some problems at first but then it worked great on another reinstall. Now that I patched I can't play again. wtf EA/Maxis?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27209.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27209.page GMT -Tribe members continue to carry instruments when they switch to spears
-Spice Storage disappears when leaving the planet, and has no effect (that is, 3 cities provide 15 storage. When I drop a Spice Storage it should bump up to 30, but it does not. This really, really annoys me.)
-Planets return to their original states until terraforming is attempted, ie, a T0 terraformed to T2 will appear T0 (with plants and animals, and without flame/ice plumes) upon returning to the planet's surface, until any terraforming is attempted when suddenly water floods in and texture sweepingly changes to the correct appearance. It actually scared me when I first saw this. "HOLY ^&*# A FLOOD!"

I don't have any lag issues, but I do have a high-powered processor.

EA, time to bump up the number of patch testers. I know most publishers scale back testers once the game is released, but seriously, [i]test[/i] the patches thoroughly. When we find massive bugs in the first few hours, you don't have enough testers on the job. I'm not saying the testers you have did a poor job, I'm saying you need to budget for some more to be able to find the bugs that are there.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27222.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27222.page GMT Sound/graphics lag/missing graphics/stuff.
Planets don't show up in in the initial galaxy view (though the popups will popup if I mouseover them, yett he planet graphics themselves don't load, just the white circle).
Game crashes a lot. (Possibly when trying to load things that are missing?)
Patch is very disappointing. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27231.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27231.page GMT
It's like there's now a twenty minute or so limit on this trial... sorry, full game.

I had no problems before the patch: now, I'm in creature stage, lowered the quality of my graphics, and I'm still constantly being killed by invisible, untouchable foes. And it's hard to impress an invisible opponent. Oh, and parts come up about a minute after being found.

What the hell? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27257.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27257.page GMT -Tribe members continue to carry instruments when they switch to spears
[/quote]

I saw this happen a few times before the patch - tribe members holding horn-spears (looks interesting, but I'm at sea wondering what they're really carrying)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27262.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27262.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

[/quote]

Yes these are the problems I am having. Lots of invisibles. The patch is unplayable. If anyone reads this don't install it. If you had no problems with the game working previously don't install this patch until the sound and graphics are fixed.[/quote]
Same here. What is odd is that my wife has the same computer as I do and she patched with no problem (yes I bought two copies of the game). The only thing coming to my mind right now is that I had to back-rev Microsoft's Media player because of an issue with sound on space-game X-3 which had simlar sound issue.

It is late and I am ticked off. I might look in to it more tomorrow. The game worked fine before this.

-Lego
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27270.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27270.page GMT
Looked it up on sporepedia and it seems to be a common minor glitch. Any solutions?

[img]http://www.spore.com/static/thumb/500/083/917/500083917458.png[/img]
User: crazyjackaljones - me

[img]http://ll-067.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/067/500084067541.png[/img]
User: TemplePilots

[img]http://ll-218.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/218/500084218208.png[/img]
User: Vikrane

[img]http://ll-200.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/200/500084200555.png[/img]
User: Kelmaro

[img]http://ll-123.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/123/500084123363.png[/img]
User: LordDracnor

[img]http://ll-174.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/174/500084174184.png[/img]
User: NewLifeSeason

[img]http://ll-185.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/185/500084185049.png[/img]
User: Skydog91

[img]http://ll-198.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/198/500084198517.png[/img]
User: Awinnarisme

[img]http://ll-209.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/209/500084209697.png[/img]
Ridleys99

[img]http://ll-075.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/084/075/500084075542.png[/img]
User: Washu

These are just examples, there are plenty more.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27365.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27365.page GMT Sound/graphics lag/missing graphics/stuff.
Planets don't show up in in the initial galaxy view (though the popups will popup if I mouseover them, yett he planet graphics themselves don't load, just the white circle).
Game crashes a lot. (Possibly when trying to load things that are missing?)
Patch is very disappointing. [/quote]

Exactly the same thing plus invisble opponents. It ran perfect before on all MED. and now i find that i need to put it on low just to get SOME of the probs out of the way.

This sucks big Grox balls]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27393.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27393.page GMT
Decided to try to start a new game from the cell stage, and still had issues with invisibility. My creature, other creatures, and the creature bits you try to pick up are invisible, and the background switched back and forth from being super blurry to normal.

Have an nvidia geforce 6800, and downloaded a newer driver to see if that would fix things, and it didn't.

Game is pretty much unplayable at this point for me, so I'm hoping these graphics issues get resolved soon...]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27404.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27404.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27415.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27415.page GMT Sound/graphics lag/missing graphics/stuff.
Planets don't show up in in the initial galaxy view (though the popups will popup if I mouseover them, yett he planet graphics themselves don't load, just the white circle).
Game crashes a lot. (Possibly when trying to load things that are missing?)
Patch is very disappointing. [/quote]

Exactly the same thing plus invisble opponents. It ran perfect before on all MED. and now i find that i need to put it on low just to get SOME of the probs out of the way.

This sucks big Grox balls[/quote]

I'm also having the same issues, except for crashing. Invisible creatures, delayed sound, sometimes no sound at all. Not cool Maxis/EA/whoever. NOT COOL.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27444.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27444.page GMT
I loaded a creature I was playing, and I have the same problems in creature stage. Certain graphics aren't loading, some are delayed, sound is nonexistent or laggy, invisible creatures everywhere, etc.

I'm upset I haven't seen a single sign that anyone is aware of the problem, but I assume widespread issues will get attention...]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27459.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27459.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27470.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27470.page GMT Sound/graphics lag/missing graphics/stuff.
Planets don't show up in in the initial galaxy view (though the popups will popup if I mouseover them, yett he planet graphics themselves don't load, just the white circle).
Game crashes a lot. (Possibly when trying to load things that are missing?)
Patch is very disappointing. [/quote]

Exactly the same thing plus invisble opponents. It ran perfect before on all MED. and now i find that i need to put it on low just to get SOME of the probs out of the way.

This sucks big Grox balls[/quote]

I'm also having the same issues, except for crashing. Invisible creatures, delayed sound, sometimes no sound at all. Not cool Maxis/EA/whoever. NOT COOL.[/quote]

Same thing going on here, invisible creatures, sound and rays not showing up, mostly unplayable. Had no problems before patch ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27501.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27501.page GMT
Extreme Sound lag

Extreme lag between the time i click something and the time it registers that i clicked it.

When i fought a creature we made no sound nor any animations but our health still went down. When i killed him he remained standing there motionless. The game worked great since launch. Now its completely broken for me.

[/quote]

Yes these are the problems I am having. Lots of invisibles. The patch is unplayable. If anyone reads this don't install it. If you had no problems with the game working previously don't install this patch until the sound and graphics are fixed.[/quote]

I'm experiencing exactly these same issues.
all was working well before the patch (except for the broken space phase leaving planetary atmosphere bug), but now the game's totally fubar-ed by this 'patch'.

wtf!

this is [i]not[/i] the sort of annoyance i shelled-out my dough for.
shame on you maxis.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27514.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27514.page GMT
If you want to see an example have a look at my "Miniature Dillo" critter.

Here: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500084353027
[img]http://ll-353.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/084/353/500084353027_lrg.png[/img]
I assure you the dillo only has ONE head.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27599.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27599.page GMT
Some problems I've noticed so far:

Lag Sound or No sound at all

Lag 'found new part' animations. I'll find a new part and the animation will not play for about 10 seconds

Planets do not show in the Galaxy Screen at the Beginning of game

I've reinstalled twice to see if that would help and the only thing it *did* help was the planets are now showing up in the Galaxy Screen. The lag Sound and Animations are still there though.





]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27655.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27655.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27670.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27670.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27776.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27776.page GMT Now after patch, there is sound delay, invisible structures/creatures, and delayed animations or no response at all. Sometimes if I bring up the menu over and over they'll appear, but that is about it.

Edit:
Tested in case it was old version saved games having the problems, so made new game, ran through cell (invisible until I brought up the menu several times) and part of creature and still had the same issues, so it seems both old saves and new games since patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27784.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27784.page GMT However i tried to run the patch, and it crashes and i had to end the program.
i even tried keitar6's method of fixing it after i tried running it a couple of times with the same result.
It still crashes every time and makes my computer lag. So please is there a way i can re-install or re-download this patch. I mean do you guys have to make a patch to patch a patch. <-- lol i made a new tounger-twister

But can any of you guys help me or can i have any tips.

Thanks Vbdude006]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27808.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27808.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27819.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27819.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27830.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27830.page GMT
I had microscope mode on and I went to edit my creature. Just when I was going to take the eyes off the game froze up and I had no choice but to end the game from the task manager.[/quote]

Okay I think that the Filter had nothing to do with it now. I just took another pre-made creature into Creature Stage and when I went to change something in the editor the game froze. So it might just be pre-made creatures altogether. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27839.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27839.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27862.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27862.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27909.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27909.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27911.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27911.page GMT
-Invisible planets on startup screen

-Random animations of inanimate environment objects in the creature stage: a tree was bobbing up and down, for example

-No animations available to my creature; cannot pick up new parts, sing, charm, attack, eat fruit, etc. I will eventually die from this.

*sigh* It seems that I'll be making a phone call to get my money back soon. I had such high hopes about this game, but considering all the serious frustration it's been causing me lately, I think I might just have to give it up.

At least The Sims doesn't have too many problems anymore....]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27929.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27929.page GMT
I had just purchased the second upgrade for my ship's energy, if that makes any difference. I thought it odd because I didn't think I'd unlocked it, but this other empire's planet had it for sale and I took it. On the way to the next solar system after the purchase, game crashed.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27945.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27945.page GMT
after patching successfully all games take a very long time to load anything, went through a wormhole and got stuck, could not scroll out to see where it took me, also when I start a new game on cell stage there is no cell, or even food to eat.

EDIT: the wormhole froze the whole game, could not quit to main screen or even quit, would allow me to click "quit to main screen" or "quit game" but would just go right back to the options screen without quitting. going to bed now and will try again tomorrow.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27960.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27960.page GMT
At this point, I've re-installed the game [b]twice[/b]. On my second uninstall, I also deleted the downloaded patch file on the assumption that it might be corrupted. I started up my fresh game, downloaded a fresh patch, installed it all the way to 100%, then got the same error message from before.

This is quickly turning into an exercise of "head meets wall repeatedly." ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27971.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27971.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3328.page

hope it helps worked for me

let me know by if it does]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27976.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27976.page GMT
I play in English on a German version of Windows Vista. Installed Spore as English no problem. Ran fine all text English. Installed Patch, everything now in German. Can hack the locale but once you install the initial game patches shouldn't change the language.

Thanks]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27980.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/27980.page GMT
The game was fine before except for the constant attacks in space game.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28060.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28060.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28064.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28064.page GMT
Have had no problems (bar ocassional graphic glitches) what so ever, so certainly won't be installing this patch just yet!

Not good guys.


]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28069.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28069.page GMT
Just tried creature game and it's very difficult to play the lag when you select actions is so bad that the social bar fills and the socialising ends before you can do anything. Also if you try to eat fruit no animation or sound plays and the fruit just disappears again this all worked fine before the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28073.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28073.page GMT
Out of curiosity is there [b]anyone[/b] who's installed the patch and [b]not[/b] experienced the problems people are posting about?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28083.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28083.page GMT Is there a way to un-install a patch without re-installing the game?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28099.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28099.page GMT
Out of curiosity is there [b]anyone[/b] who's installed the patch and [b]not[/b] experienced the problems people are posting about?[/quote]

Apparently not, so if your game is running then [b]do not use[/b] this first patch]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28154.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28154.page GMT
Out of curiosity is there [b]anyone[/b] who's installed the patch and [b]not[/b] experienced the problems people are posting about?[/quote]

Apparently not, so if your game is running then [b]do not use[/b] this first patch[/quote]

Check out the thread to Patch or not to Patch.. there are a few people who have patched without any problems at all. On the other hand at this point in time I am not going to risk it. I'd rather a working game then the possibility of a non-working one.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28158.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28158.page GMT
1: All creatures take ungodly amounts of time to load. Some don't at all unless I go into options and change the graphics settings back and forth.
I went through an entire creature phase and was atacked by no less than 4 different epics that I could not even see until they killed me about 4 times each. And 90% of the time when something atacked me I couldn't see it, or even target it.

2: The 'spore card' window is gone, so it was hard to even tell what invisible object I was targeting.

3: Trees/bushes disappeared and reappeared at random. Although their fruit was still visible, so i could eat it, it made getting around impossible

4: Everything is lagged to some degree. From the sounds to the animations (both combined made befriending something an exercise in initiating an action and hoping for the best) and the "new part" window. I died one time, did nothing for 5 minutes, and then it informed me that I found a new arm type. ( I was collecting bones when an invisible epic made a lunch of me). the sound lag compounds the invisible creature problem because I can't even hear something until it's attacked me a number of times.

5. Graphical glitches. I'll start by saying that there is something wrong with my Video card, and I had glitches in some specific areas of the game before. but now it's everywhere! on creatures, buildings, the nest, the spaceship that visits your planet in the creature stage! before it used to just be on far-away trees, and a couple other things.

This is all that I can recall from creature stage. I got through it as quickly as I could under the circumstances (hard to stop and smell the flowers when the flowers are invisible and might just be a pile of dung). and on to Tribal (most of the previous problems continue to exist, but the trees seem a bit more stable):

6. I CAN NOT play my instruments. Yes, the chief is there, every one present has instruments, the target tribe is neutral or better. But initiating the friendly interaction causes our respective tribes to group up in the normal fashion. The progress bar appears... then... nothing. the other tribe doesn't request to hear an instrument, and I can't elect to play the only instrument I have anyway. my entire tribe is willing to sit there (or dance, in my chief's case) until they starve to death.

Didn't play beyond that because I'm shooting for ecologist and I already have Onmivore and predator, so I need the two green traits.

I'm not going to say I'm disappointed in this patch, those who figured it ready for the public know by now what a pile it is, and my help isn't needed in beating them over the head. And quite frankly, as long as they are working to get it right the second time, I don't need to hear from them. But Y'know - the sooner you officially release something to undo the patch (or get it working right) the better.

And, yes, keitar6.. I've seen your downgrading solution... For the moment I've given up on this game. Back to City of Heroes for me until this situation is remedied one way or another. The level of developer-player communication there is such a lovely change of pace from this.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28243.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28243.page GMT
~J]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28271.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28271.page GMT
It's funny - I was just thinking, "My God, I wish EA/Maxis would take a cue from the CoH devs. Or at least the CoH forums." Seriously though, there was a game with some great support.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28294.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28294.page GMT
I'm logged into Spore withe the same eamil as I use for EADM, BTW.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28312.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28312.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28316.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28316.page GMT
The Patch took a long time to download and install, but no problem with it here.

[b]Siv Corp's terminal -[/b]
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.8Ghz
2 Gb Ram
150 Gb Raptor HD
Nvidea 8800 GTS on dual monitors at 1280x1024
Windows XP SP3 with all drivers up to date (video,audio,OS)
Spore now at Version 1.01.0000 after patch, English version

Note: the texture baking is stil evident on vehicles and buildings. That should be fixed soon, please.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28342.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28342.page GMT
As a reminder I am not a Maxis or EA employee and as such I can not provide any official response to the patch. I wanted to let everyone know that I and other Sporemasters continue to pass along information on difficulties regarding the patch and we are awaiting a response.

I wish I could figure out WHAT is causing some folks to have difficulties and others to install smoothly! I can not find any common denominator.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28344.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28344.page GMT
I also have an old saved game that will not let me scroll out of my home system. In both I can go from planet to space around my system and that is it. ;(]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28349.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28349.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/30/2311.page

Many thanks!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28351.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28351.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/30/2311.page

Many thanks![/quote]

One of my crash dumps went to 100 Mb before the entire system went down. I watched it with growing horror in the Task Manager. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28382.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28382.page GMT
The Patch took a long time to download and install, but no problem with it here.

[b]Siv Corp's terminal -[/b]
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.8Ghz
2 Gb Ram
150 Gb Raptor HD
Nvidea 8800 GTS on dual monitors at 1280x1024
Windows XP SP3 with all drivers up to date (video,audio,OS)
Spore now at Version 1.01.0000 after patch, English version

Note: the texture baking is stil evident on vehicles and buildings. That should be fixed soon, please.[/quote]

So your "solution" is - get your system? I'm not sure I see it. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28388.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28388.page GMT I wish I could figure out WHAT is causing some folks to have difficulties and others to install smoothly! I can not find any common denominator.[/quote]

I've thought about that too and seeing as someone is having all these problems on a macbook, just like people on Vista and XP, I'd say the common denominator is the buggy code that was put out in the patch.

When you pass this stuff on to the devs, do you ever get a response back, or is it like how we post our problems here and never hear back from them?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28468.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28468.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28478.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28478.page GMT
can you please code a update program that does not require the use of programs that you havent made like explorer and adobe?
PLEASE make a stand alone patcher....


how the heck to I get my patch?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28497.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28497.page GMT
A quick fix for invisible things is to change your graphics settings, then change them back. I believe that's been posted before, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate. (It makes me wonder if toggling sound settings might fix the audio lag? I'll have to try that....)

Another possible solution that I've looked into was [url=http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3378.page]posted here.[/url] (it was linked to in a different thread for some of these problems) I would suggest simply renaming pollination.package instead of deleting it outright, however, in case of new errors.

Anyways, that solution worked great for me, [i]until[/i] I went to my home planet to drop off some of my newly collected rares; The game suddenly crashed when I got close to my personal "museum city" and upon restart, the game reverted back to all the old issues it was having.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28529.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28529.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28590.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28590.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28599.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28599.page GMT
I'm logged into Spore withe the same eamil as I use for EADM, BTW.[/quote]

Any possible solutions? ... Cause I still haven't figured out what could be wrong

EDIT:

I have 32 bit Vista
3,5GB RAM
q6600 (2,4GHZ)
8800 GTS

... Does that help in any way?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28602.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28602.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28618.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28618.page GMT
The space stage no longer displays visited planets, allied/enemy territory (the green/red circles around stars) and my ship no longer shows up right away (like the invisible creatures in creature stage). But the worst part is I can no longer visit planets. Can fly my invisible ship over the planet with no texture but trying to actually go down to the surface is no longer possible, I waited 10 minutes for it to load the planet only for the game to crash. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28652.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28652.page GMT
Pre-Patch install : Game balance issues but otherwise, ran smoothly and never crashed.

Post-Patch install: Creatures, buildings, other graphics (except plants) not appearing on planets even after hovering above planet for 5 minutes, game randomly crashes now (this coupled with no autosave is especially disheartening.) On the upside, game balance issues do seem to be fixed. However, can we please make the uber-turret work when we're not on the planet?

Please patch the patch as soon as possible. Until then, this game is going to lie dormant (but won't be uninstalled for fear of the DRM police doing a full body cavity search.)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28675.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28675.page GMT
I can run all the creators just fine, but once I go into the edit tribal outfit, I get a floating bunch of bits (The main body is just gone) and when I try to add any clothes, it just crashes my game.

I've tried it in game, and through the creator and the same thing happens. I can build a new critter, but not outfit the dang thing.

Before the patch everything worked just fine and I was enjoying taking my time in the game. (I have not gotten to the space stage yet.)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28690.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28690.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28716.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28716.page GMT
[url]http://files.filefront.com/spore+dd+patch+all+v1exe/;11828652;/fileinfo.html[/url]

Because nothing that has EA logo doesn't quite work with me, but I had no problems with games of other companies. I mean .. The Sims 2 in-game custom content browser never worked with me, and EA team didn't even bother answeing my wuestion on EA support, and now this freakin' EADM doesn't work either?

EA is just the most money-hungry comapny ever! They sell you a game, that needs to be patched, and repatched and rerepatched for it to at least be playable, and when yu need support they do not answer, because you're supposed to rewrite their programs yourself, obvuiousely .

And I haven't seen any requirements greater than those below on a Spore packaging or for The Sims 2, but I guess I'm wrong again.

So:

q6600 (2,4ghz)
GeForce8800 640MB VRAM
3,5GB RAM
freakin DVD drive

... I taught it should process EADM and in game custom content browser from TS2.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28785.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28785.page GMT Tribe stage, I ordered my tribe to kill an epic(brainer or something), they killed him (was shouting before even touching him), and then all of a sudden my tribe stopped and the epic just was standing there blinking, and my tribe all of them had the "gather Food from dead creature" icon on them, but the epic just stood there blinking, and then he realized he is dead and well, died. then my tribe members, one at a time, gathered food from him. Man, the game was working pefectly fine, and now this?
Man! It's finally a weekend so I can play and not study, but noooo.

Please fix it ASAP!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28803.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28803.page GMT
Like I said in my previous post, I'm not experiancing any of the lag, invisible creatures, crash, etc. My issues are relatively minor.

Before the patch, I had experienced 4 crashes or so in the first week. After that the crashes went away. I haven't been hit with any crashes yet on the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28878.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28878.page GMT
You can imagine my quandary. [/quote]

You don't have to reinstall.

If you're trying to patch Spore to 1.01 and see this error:

"Old file not found. However, a file with the same name was found. No update done since contents differ."

Do this to fix it:

You need to insert the Spore DVD. If you downloaded the game I'm not sure how to fix this, sorry.

Open explorer and on the DVD go to the spore\data directory. Open another explorer window and go to the spore\data directory on your hard drive where the game is installed.

Copy the entire contents of the data folder on the DVD to the data folder on your hard drive. This will take a minute or five. Once it's all copied over, re-run the patch and it should install without that error.

Hope I've helped someone.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28937.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28937.page GMT
Problem but not a crash.

Post Patch -
[size=14]Critter Stage Population:[/size]
My first creature stage was all the same creature. Every single critter was the same species. Second and subsequent games were peachy.

[size=14]Critter And Later Stage Sprint:[/size]
Sprint seems to have a lag time to it. The sprint timer goes but I just sit there with my pack for a good 2-3 seconds. Like when stuck. The higher the sprint the longer the wait to go. In tribe I hear the sprint sound and everyone just sits still no matter what I do for 3-4 seconds. If attacked they just sit there and take it.

At sprint 5 the wait time is long enough I get the aluminum bat sound as if stuck. This will end sprint prematurely sometimes. Happened twice of 5 times in two games.



]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28944.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28944.page GMT
Both computers that I have patched are having this issue. When I go to the in game Sporepedia for the space game all the Sporededia cards for the planets have been replaced with question marks. The planet name is still there and if I click on the card it will bring to the next screen and show the planet and allow me to track it. This only affects Planets, creatures, vehicles, plants, and buildings all display fine.

In game Sporepedia looks like this

[img]http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/795/12028427hj2.jpg[/img]

If I click on the question mark it does bring up the planet.
Anyone else checked their Planet cards?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28978.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/28978.page GMT
I am having all the problems with lag / missing images / hidden creatures / no sounds / general I can't believe I paid for this / terribleness as everyone else. Is there some way to remove the patch? Are there files I can copy from the DVD to do so? The game is [b]beyond[/b] unplayable at this point!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29028.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29028.page GMT
Spore had never crashed on me, but five minutes of playing after the patch it crashed.

This makes it almost impossible to do missions because you can't see what you are supposed to be collecting, and you have no confirmation that your are collecting anything.

Has anyone found a way to fix this?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29036.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29036.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29057.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29057.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29065.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29065.page GMT
A quick fix for invisible creatures is to change something in your graphics settings, and resume playing. (You can then change the settings back). However, its not a permanent fix; the very next planet you go to may have invisible things as well.

I've got nothing for the missing sound, unfortunately.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29083.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29083.page GMT Sound/graphics lag/missing graphics/stuff.
Planets don't show up in in the initial galaxy view (though the popups will popup if I mouseover them, yett he planet graphics themselves don't load, just the white circle).
Game crashes a lot. (Possibly when trying to load things that are missing?)
Patch is very disappointing. [/quote]

Exactly the same thing plus invisble opponents. It ran perfect before on all MED. and now i find that i need to put it on low just to get SOME of the probs out of the way.

This sucks big Grox balls[/quote]

I'm also having the same issues, except for crashing. Invisible creatures, delayed sound, sometimes no sound at all. Not cool Maxis/EA/whoever. NOT COOL.[/quote]

Same thing going on here, invisible creatures, sound and rays not showing up, mostly unplayable. Had no problems before patch [/quote]

having same issues as everyone else it seems, patch effed up spore game for me, but creator still works fine at least]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29084.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29084.page GMT
Like I said in my previous post, I'm not experiancing any of the lag, invisible creatures, crash, etc. My issues are relatively minor.

Before the patch, I had experienced 4 crashes or so in the first week. After that the crashes went away. I haven't been hit with any crashes yet on the patch.[/quote]

I'm happy to say (and sad as well since so many are having issues) that I was fine before the patch and I am fine after the patch. I do have to admit it seemed to take forever to patch on my Vista box but I had started it right when I got home and was letting it patch while I was fixing dinner and it did get done by the time I was done eating.

As I stated in another thread, really the only two problems I have seen and I can not verify that the one was happening before the patch or not was the fact I could not target an Epic that was ravaging a town in Civ Stage. I just had to wait for the turrets to kill him.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29087.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29087.page GMT I went to kill that epic again (I didn't save) and my tribe went to him, stood around him, and his HP was drooping but no animation, they stood there. then his hp was zero, I should have been dead, and after a couple of moments he died, but my Tribe gave up on him and went away. Also I tried to kill a regular creature, but it was after a lag that he died. Please fix it so I can play!!!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29091.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29091.page GMT
A quick fix for invisible creatures is to change something in your graphics settings, and resume playing. (You can then change the settings back). However, its not a permanent fix; the very next planet you go to may have invisible things as well.

I've got nothing for the missing sound, unfortunately.[/quote]


I'll try that thanks. I've also found that a new space game does not appear to have any missing creatures or sounds so far, but it did have a missing laser animation occasionally. The only space save game I have previously is a creature that came all the way up from a cell, and I would like to continue playing that one, and not have to abandon it due to the patch. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29107.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29107.page GMT Notot tried cell or creature yet to see if the crash when evolving is fixed but the crash where i try to enter my wildlife sanctuary in my home system witch worked for two days after id turned it into a sanctuary, then all of a sudden 6 hours later after i last played now crashes every time i try to enter the planet yet every other planet seems fine Found a work around for the cell to creature and the sanctuary i just leave be so it was still playable but since the patch even on low graphics it seem unbearably slow before i could play it on medium graphics no probs now i cant see buildings or creatures or any of my ships effects for like 10 mins after i enter a planet atmosphere its silly.
Although i do appreciate the speed in witch the patch was deliverd maybe les haste next time and a bit more care heres to hopeing someone finds a work around for the slow graphics fingers crossed...]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29114.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29114.page GMT
was great game for the wholde DAY i got to play with it....sigh]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29128.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29128.page GMT
A quick fix for invisible creatures is to change something in your graphics settings, and resume playing. (You can then change the settings back). However, its not a permanent fix; the very next planet you go to may have invisible things as well.

I've got nothing for the missing sound, unfortunately.[/quote]


I'll try that thanks. I've also found that a new space game does not appear to have any missing creatures or sounds so far, but it did have a missing laser animation occasionally. The only space save game I have previously is a creature that came all the way up from a cell, and I would like to continue playing that one, and not have to abandon it due to the patch. [/quote]

Yeah I'm having the exact issues you're having. I've set all settings back to default and even exited and reloaded the game. Still having graphic, sound issues and the less than 30min game time crash aswell as the extreme lag when loading everything. We need a quick fix or somthing soon.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29163.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29163.page GMT I loaded up the game to check if it had installed really quick and after it logged me in it told me there was an update so I let it download and install and it and then it tells me it failed with no information on why.

... what?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29166.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29166.page GMT
It's like this patch took the game back to 18 months pre-release! I don't want another patch, I want a way to remove this one, please.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29198.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29198.page GMT
A quick fix for invisible creatures is to change something in your graphics settings, and resume playing. (You can then change the settings back). However, its not a permanent fix; the very next planet you go to may have invisible things as well.

I've got nothing for the missing sound, unfortunately.[/quote]


I'll try that thanks. I've also found that a new space game does not appear to have any missing creatures or sounds so far, but it did have a missing laser animation occasionally. The only space save game I have previously is a creature that came all the way up from a cell, and I would like to continue playing that one, and not have to abandon it due to the patch. [/quote]

Yeah I'm having the exact issues you're having. I've set all settings back to default and even exited and reloaded the game. Still having graphic, sound issues and the less than 30min game time crash aswell as the extreme lag when loading everything. We need a quick fix or somthing soon.[/quote]


I'm having the same issues with crashing, lag, ecodisaster creatures. Even changing the settings doesn't really help. Hopefully there is a way to fix this, because some people aren't having any of these issues. I'm running mine on a PC.

Is anyone on a Mac and having these problems, or on a PC and not having these issues?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29213.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29213.page GMT
Thanks.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29240.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29240.page GMT
Anyone else having problems like these?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29313.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29313.page GMT
another one is the chieftain when told to lead the chorus just toddles back and forth and the playing never starts.

Make social a bit troublsome.

Edit: He does it when attacking also. Even defending. Just sits there spazing.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29332.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29332.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29340.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29340.page GMT
problems experianced: creatures, buildings, plants, terrain all dissapear...usually i can still see the creatures, buildings and plants, they just seem to be white. but when the terrain dissapears i can see thru the planet and actually see the sky on the other side...kinda shows me exactly how they did it wich is kinda kuel...its like half a planet and the otherside is an invisible box...anyways...thats pretty annoying...hopefully the fix works...imabout to change my graphix settings now...ill repost (not sword fighting style) as soon as i see some sort of difference!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29471.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29471.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29482.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29482.page GMT
* Sound lags at the beginning, so I end up seeing the galaxy coming at me when I finally hear that explosion at the beginning of the load screen.

* Planets take roughly 4 to 5 minutes to appear in the galaxy.

* Once in a game and on a planet:
- there is no sound but the ambient background sounds
- creatures, vehicles, and cities are invisible

And yes, I have tried changing my graphics, to no effect. Lowest graphics, medium graphics, highest graphics, all yield the same results.

I can see I am nowhere *near* the only person with these problems, and I'd like to point out that my game was running fine (aside from the constant attacks and the exorbitant demands for money by hostile races) before this patch.

At this point, I'm about to just sell the game to a friend, minus $15 for the 1 missing download, and let him struggle with it. This is just not fun.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29523.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29523.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29532.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29532.page GMT Unfortunately, you need to do this everytime you go to an area, but it works.
It's a good enough fix for me until they patch the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29656.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29656.page GMT invisible creatures, music/sound effect lag, no thought bubbles in tribal(which makes going green very hard)

tried setting all graphics/sound settings to low, changing cache size, removing the cache.package files
but nothing worked

I also found that opening the menu in game fixes the graphics issues(sort of) but sound was still wonky for me]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29694.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29694.page GMT
[color=blue]Hi,

Thank you for contacting EA customer support.

I do apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing with the game.

Were you able to run the game without any issues before?

Please accomplish the following before launching the game:

1. Empty your Temp folder to prevent file conflicts. Click here for steps on emptying your Temp folder:
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=10705

2. Please end all background tasks to prevent conflicts with other programs. Click here for steps on ending background tasks:
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=10700

3. Be sure you have the latest drivers available for your video and sound card.
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=10711

4. Try lowering the Hardware Sound Acceleration setting on your computer to "basic". To do this, follow these steps:
· Click the Start button in the bottom left hand corner of your Desktop.
· Click on "Run".
· Erase any text already in the run prompt.
· Type in: dxdiag
· Click the OK button.
· Select the sound tab at the top of the tool.
· Set the Hardware Sound Acceleration Slider to "Basic".
· Click "Exit" in the bottom right hand corner.

Please try playing the game now, if you still face the issue then in order to research this issue further I will need information called dxdiag.exe.

To get this information:

1) Go to Start -> Run.
2) In the box, type the following: dxdiag
3) Click 'OK'
4) Click the 'Save All Information' button on the first screen of the application.
5) Then on top of the 'Save As' box that pops up, select Desktop (if it's not set to save there already), then click Save.
6) Finally, attach the dxdiag.txt to your email reply.

Once I get the Dxdiag, I'll take a look and let you know what to do from there.

If there is anything else I can help you with, please reply back to this E-mail.\

Thank you,
EA Rep James
Player Relation EA[/color]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29703.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29703.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29744.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29744.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29826.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29826.page GMT
I installed my spore game in drive E, which is an external, removable, 500 GB harddrive, and the patch keeps trying to install to Drive C. I am not given any options as to where the patch installs itself. How do I get it to install to the correct drive?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29867.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29867.page GMT

So this is basically what they said. Apparently the patch reads to see if the game is on the C drive. There's nothing you can do to change this from happening. It's just a fluke. It can't be patched on the E drive because it will always look for the game on the C drive. So no go on the patch unless you are going to your C drive.

Now that being said, I got them to aknowledge that the problem was theirs (that was a shocker...) so they said to download the patch later tonight because a new one should be out by then that fixes this drive issue. So yes, it's a pain, but it seems like they are actually doing something to correct it. Hopefully by tonight it will be resolved for those of us who don't use the C drive.... ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29989.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/29989.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30104.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30104.page GMT
Not like this is a good thing anyway since the patch screwed up everything for me anyways, so I'd just be happy your patch doesn't work atm if the game is running fine.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30124.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30124.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30178.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30178.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30207.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30207.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30231.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30231.page GMT And yes, I have exited and re-opened the game. No I haven't re-installed.
If I was to re-install is there any way to back up my saved games without losing anything?
(I'd really REALLY prefer it if I didn't have to re-install... That would cause me to lose another install.. and I might need those for when re-formatting my computer)
Any other solutions anyone can think of? (I just woke up, so no I haven't read through this thread yet)

*Edit*
Wow.. they try to help out with a patch, and just because it has a couple errors still you all jump down their throats?
They are TRYING to make this game better for us. They could have just not done anything.
I understand the frustration, but they are working hard to fix these issues.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30232.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30232.page GMT pointless game....... ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30250.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30250.page GMT at least your game runs, as soon as the screen switches over to the game the game freezes and doesnt respond, and i have to wait 30 mins to close it, restating didnt work either.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30255.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30255.page GMT pointless game....... [/quote]

My file version is: 1.1.0.358 Odd.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30274.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30274.page GMT i wish i could load a saved game :[
worst game ever.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30280.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30280.page GMT so, i just started a brand new cell game. ate 5 plant cells, dinged and then saved. exited to main menu, loaded the 30 second old save AND IT CTD. what a shock.
im totally surprised this game does not function correctly. gj sucking everybody. thx for stealing my money.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30299.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30299.page GMT
This time it said "Patch file invalid" (had my game disc in the DVD drive the whole time this happened too)

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30350.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30350.page GMT
This time it said "Patch file invalid" (had my game disc in the DVD drive the whole time this happened too)

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

Delete the patch and redownload. I think it got corrupted somehow.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30357.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30357.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30365.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30365.page GMT
I disable the Untangle server and everythign works fine.

Needless to say EADM is the ONLY program I've had a problem with since I installed Untangle a year ago.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30373.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30373.page GMT

I deleted my content, and now I'm installing the game in a different directory and I don't plan on installing the EADM... Should me game run like it did when I bought it or has this patch forever cursed my game from ever running again?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30383.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30383.page GMT
Cell stage invis and sound delays. I tabbed to the history page several times and finally the textures appeared and you notice them pop in all of a sudden.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqJ0sRQMTM[/youtube]

Long delay texture loading and many invisible creatures
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKj9uKJPTHs[/youtube]

Siren Song Delay Example
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdOrO5IkjfI[/youtube]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30386.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30386.page GMT
If what I'm reading is true, the patcher is having issues with spore being on any drive 'cept "C:", or more specifically the operating system's drive (usually C: on most windows machines, no?).

Here's the thing, I successfully patched, but my game is on my D: drive (a seperate, but internal, hard drive, not where windows XP is installed).

What if some of the paths from the patch are pointing to "C:"? But somehow manage to, eventually, re-direct whatever information their looking for to the correct drive? Could this explain the lag we're having?

I.E: [find soundfile 'Y' in C:\...] [soundfile 'Y' not found] [soundfile 'Y' found in D:\...] [loading soundfile 'Y']

like eachtime it tries to open resources it's looking in the wrong drive first...

EDIT: If a couple of people from each camp (patched game runs fine / experiance slow loading of various resources since patching) could quickly say what drive their operating system exists on, what drive spore is installed onto... and perhapps even into a little more detal (drives are seperate partitions on the same disk, different disks both internal, one drive on external disk the other on internal)

If I'm right, then those without problems since the patch installed spore to the default directory while the rest of us didn't.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30406.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30406.page GMT I have a C, D and E.

As far as I can tell it patched to D as I don't see an EA folder on C except for the EADM software which is where I installed it.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30429.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30429.page GMT I have a C, D and E.

As far as I can tell it patched to D as I don't see an EA folder on C except for the EADM software which is where I installed it.

[/quote]
See, this is what I'm thinking. it found your installations on D:, and patched it. but some of the patched pathways try to force the game to look in the C: drive for the information the game requires.

Like instead of having a variable called 'Path' which would dynamically change based on where we installed spore [D:\games\ea\spore], [D:\program files\ea\spore], etc... it's FORCING the game to look in the default path [C:\program files\ea\spore] (or something like that). Now somehow theres some redundancy directing the game to look in the correct location eventually, but the initial load tries to get the data from somewhere that doesn't exist.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30467.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30467.page GMT First, some background: Before the patch, it worked perfectly with no problems since I got the game, other than very occasionally the music timing getting off in cut scenes (only happened twice.) This could very well be because I have an old computer with not enough RAM, though.
I started a new game this morning in Cell stage and it worked fine. Once I got to creature stage, though, all Hell broke loose. When the creature was running onto land, the water looked weird and the creature was solid white (it should have been dark blue.) Basically none of the music came on (music when mating, etc.). When fighting, the growling, etc. wasn't there. Clicking on the attack buttons only worked about 1/3rd of the time, and even those were laggy. Same goes for exploring skeletons or eating meat. Or anything..... After I killed off the first nest, I heard attacking, and my health was dropping. After dying twice, I realized that there was a SPORE invisible creature!!! I found that over half of the creatures were invisible, probably more like 3/4. At this point I decided to give up on Galactic God and restart the program, and killed all background programs. I restarted, and the exact same thing happened. It was completely unplayable. I have no idea about any other stages, though, as that was all I tried before giving up.
I looked to see if other people were having problems, and found this thread. After scrolling though, I found that someone mentioned lowering the graphics settings helped. I went back in and lowered the graphics to full low, started it up, and it worked fine. I just went all the way though (and got Galactic God...) and had no problems.

To the people speculating about the alternative locations being a problem, I have Windows XP installed in the default location on C: (My primary hard drive) and Spore is also installed in the default location on drive C: So the alt install locations clearly isn't the root cause of this.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30482.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30482.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30499.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30499.page GMT
I tried everything that they asked me to do in the support ticket (I'll try anything at this point) and it didn't help. I posted the ticket on page 13 of this thread. I sent them the information they asked for, so hopefully they can help.

I saw someone, I think it was sketchychik, say that we are jumping down their throats. I know I am. I paid $50 for a game that is unplayable. If I purchased a car or a TV and it was this broken I would be jumping down their throats as well. The same thing happened when Giants was launched, and the same point was made then. The software market is very competitive and not held to the same standards as other industries.

I just hope someone finds a solution.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30514.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30514.page GMT Darn, thought I was onto something. Well, still might be part of the problem, just not the whole picture.

Oh well, like I said before I went into college level VB debugging mode, back to CoH for a while... still paying my monthly subscription anyway, might as well make my 15$ worth... Spore's been distracting me from it until now.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30568.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30568.page GMT
If what I'm reading is true, the patcher is having issues with spore being on any drive 'cept "C:", or more specifically the operating system's drive (usually C: on most windows machines, no?).

Here's the thing, I successfully patched, but my game is on my D: drive (a seperate, but internal, hard drive, not where windows XP is installed).

What if some of the paths from the patch are pointing to "C:"? But somehow manage to, eventually, re-direct whatever information their looking for to the correct drive? Could this explain the lag we're having?

I.E: [find soundfile 'Y' in C:\...] [soundfile 'Y' not found] [soundfile 'Y' found in D:\...] [loading soundfile 'Y']

like eachtime it tries to open resources it's looking in the wrong drive first...

EDIT: If a couple of people from each camp (patched game runs fine / experiance slow loading of various resources since patching) could quickly say what drive their operating system exists on, what drive spore is installed onto... and perhapps even into a little more detal (drives are seperate partitions on the same disk, different disks both internal, one drive on external disk the other on internal)

If I'm right, then those without problems since the patch installed spore to the default directory while the rest of us didn't.[/quote]

Windows xp installed to C: as well as spore, all default paths, nothing fancy. Internal drive, etc. My guess is they just beefed something up in the patch and didn't test it properly.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30571.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30571.page GMT
I have not edited any txt files either.

Vista Home O/S]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30576.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30576.page GMT
My install is in the factory default directory. I'm running an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9600. My 80GB Western Digital drive (formatted NTFS) has 22GB free. The slave drive (formatted FAT32) has been removed from the controller, in case it was slowing down drive access times. The main drive has been recently cleaned and defragmented (twice). The drivers for the onboard Realtek AC97 audio and graphics card have been verified as most current. DirectX 10 has been reinstalled.

If necessary, I can post a full DXDIAG report.

Please let me know what I can do to help get this resolved! Thanks!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30579.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30579.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30604.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30604.page GMT
I've since reinstalled on C: and I'm about to patch to see what happens. My wife has almost the exact same computer as me (winXP I have a second hard drive, E:... d: is my swap file, F: is my CD-ROM) and her game is fine.

I'll be back with more.

-Lego
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30635.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30635.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30642.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30642.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30645.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30645.page GMT
I stated once in the past I think that the patch problem is caused by a permissions problem probably caused by EADM not being able to grant administrative rights to the patch file since it either doesn't already have them or cannot give them to a child to inherit. It could be exacerbated by being unable to access files correctly due to the extensions being hidden. I've had a couple pieces of software that would not do what they're supposed to do at all because known file type extensions were hidden.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30685.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30685.page GMT *Edit*
No, it hasn't fixed my problem of items only half showing up. (Moving part is invisible)
Though it might help other people's problems.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30737.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30737.page GMT
Starting Cell
Sound not present after asteroid disappears and all cells invisible. Video ends with mating dance and entering the editor.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEPaRHQeWk[/youtube]

Part 2 of the above. Entering the cell editor.
As I enter the editor notice the sound kicks in as you hear the cell mating dance that wasn't heard earlier. The editor sounds and graphics seem fine. Cell loads in tidepool without texture after exit and remains without texture for some time. Sound present but delayed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuTlgq6GqEo[/youtube]

Part 3 of the above - It starts working better as a I play longer. No music now and other sounds not present.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKtXPUmiBq8[/youtube]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30771.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30771.page GMT *Edit*
No, it hasn't fixed my problem of items only half showing up. (Moving part is invisible)
Though it might help other people's problems.[/quote]
Ok, you had the option selected (it is by default) when the patch was first installed then it sounds like. If possible, you'd have to re-apply the patch now that the option is deselected (ie: extensions are no longer hidden). I'm not sure if it that's possible though.

I don't know if this is a solution for this particular situation, but it has helped in the past with other programs. This and the permissions problem is likely the culprit of everyone's issues as it's a very easy Games for Windows pitfall.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30786.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30786.page GMT
Tried unchecking Hide extensions for known file types and it did not solve my issues.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30794.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30794.page GMT
I've since reinstalled on C: and I'm about to patch to see what happens. My wife has almost the exact same computer as me (winXP I have a second hard drive, E:... d: is my swap file, F: is my CD-ROM) and her game is fine.

I'll be back with more.

-Lego
[/quote]


I too have installed the game to a different Hard Drive, D: in my case. Let me know if installing to the default directory fixes it for you. I'm going to try the same on my computer and I'll post my results.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30797.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30797.page GMT
I stated once in the past I think that the patch problem is caused by a permissions problem probably caused by EADM not being able to grant administrative rights to the patch file since it either doesn't already have them or cannot give them to a child to inherit. It could be exacerbated by being unable to access files correctly due to the extensions being hidden. I've had a couple pieces of software that would not do what they're supposed to do at all because known file type extensions were hidden.[/quote]

Whether the file extension it's hidden or not, has absolutely nothing to do with file permissions, it's strictly cosmetic, and downright silly at that.

Unfortunately, you should be running Windows as the administrator, or you should at least be logged in as the admin when patching, otherwise, depending on your group rights, you may run into problems.

Also, not sure if it's required, but you might even need to be the administrator when installing the game too.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30814.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30814.page GMT
D***it! Sorry guys, I was hoping for more. My saved games are already lost, so I'm starting over with a base install. Back later when more is known.

-Lego
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30824.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30824.page GMT [quote=ZJBDragon]I stated once in the past I think that the patch problem is caused by a permissions problem probably caused by EADM not being able to grant administrative rights to the patch file since it either doesn't already have them or cannot give them to a child to inherit. [b][i]It could be exacerbated by being unable to access files correctly due to the extensions being hidden.[/i][/b] I've had a couple pieces of software that would not do what they're supposed to do at all because known file type extensions were hidden.[/quote]
It's not strictly cosmetic in all situations. This problem used to wreak havoc on SSH, FTP, and other server operations at work when people tried to upload and download files. They would get all sorts of ridiculous errors sometimes. Removing the hiding of file extensions fixed everything instantly. While most programs don't seem to have a problem with the extensions, some do.

Again though, this setting change makes no difference unless it's done before a patch is applied. I also agree with Steve that running patches (and all first party game files, in my opinion) needs to be done as an administrator explicitly.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30831.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30831.page GMT
JUST ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE ELSE SAID.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30882.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30882.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30936.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/30936.page GMT
After i got the patch i defended my home planet, repaired, and attempted to leave my home planet where the game would normally crash.

It didnt! I was excited that i FINALLY got to leave home planet and start exploring some more! Maybe a half hour later i was leaving some random planets orbit and it crashed...again.

Updated drivers, thought that would help.

It did! For awhile....i was trying to gather T2 resources from my home planet to colonize another planet. I tried to leave orbit, and crash...

The patch got me maybe another hour into the game, but sadly, im where i was before. Crashing while trying to leave orbit.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31066.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31066.page GMT
Got a serious problem. Installed the patch and it started crashing during play. It was so bad I removed the game and tried to reinstall, now I can't launch the game at all, it crashes as soon as it starts loading. Help!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31068.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31068.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31084.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31084.page GMT
Happened to me on my desktop. I let my desktop sit for awhile and it eventually installed completely.

How long have you tried to wait for it to complete?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31091.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31091.page GMT
Missing sounds and oddness through all of these.

The first tribe that shows up their cinematic doesn't work. I see the shaman staff in the tent but they never move out and the sound isn't present.

Video 1
While fishing initially shows no animation. Baskets fill up.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrrhvpKmG8[/youtube]

Video 2
While gathering fruit no animation.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB2Ja-cmsf4[/youtube]

Video 3
Fishing animation starts to work. I go attempt a bribe, seems to work.
Egg sounds delayed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGajGpsJDg[/youtube]

Video 4
I try a dance around the fire pit and they only twirl at the very end.
Time to grab some spears.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1WUb-RlK0[/youtube]

Video 5
I attack another village. Animations missing though it starts somewhat working towards the end of the battle.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBRcyysLsM[/youtube]

Video 6
I destroy their village, sort of works. No sound upon cut scene that you don't see.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3urtU7JLzc[/youtube]

Video 7
Corrupted from game crash. I was attacked by two tribes after defeating the first one. All members of both tribes were invisible. I could see their tools though with one group carrying torch's and the other carrying spears. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31110.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31110.page GMT
I thought my computer had frozen as well. For me there were parts of the patching process that didn't appear to be doing a darn thing. The second time I tried installing the patch I decided to just walk away and let it do its thing. I came back half an hour later and I noticed the progress bar had filled, so I left it alone. A few minutes later a new progress bar appeared. Again the process seemed frozen, but I left it alone. It took a full hour and 15 minutes for the patch to apply itself - nearly three times as long as it took me to install the game itself - but it finally patched.

Just sit there and let the patching process do its thing. It might take a really long time and it might appear like your computer has frozen, but just let it be for a good long time. If it takes more than 2 hours I'd say you have a problem, but not before that.

Of course, judging by all the problems myself and others are having with the game after patching you may want to avoid applying the patch in the first place.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31116.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31116.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31120.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31120.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31145.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31145.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31148.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31148.page GMT
1) Other creatures are invisible
2) Animations don't play
3) Acquired Upgrades and new creature don't show up on the left side of the screen (or only after a delay)
4) Sound delays or sounds missing

There may be more but I got so frustrated after 15 minutes I stopped playing. The game was fine (at least up to the creature stage) before that. Undo whatever the changes were that caused these problems!

My system:
Sempron 2800+
ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro (AGP)
1.5GB RAM
Windows XP SP2

Yes, my system isn't the newest greatest thing, but it still exceeds the recommended specs and it played fine before the patch. They need to fix whatever it is that they broke!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31189.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31189.page GMT
This is the spore exception log written after the crash:

[Build info]
Spore

[System info]
Computer name: Secoh-Extreme
User name: Secoh
EA_PLATFORM: Windows on X86
OS name: Windows Vista
OS version number: 6.0.6001
OS service pack: Service Pack 1
Debugger present: no
CPU count: 4
Processor type: x86
Processor level: 6
Processor revision: 3851
Memory load: 33%
Total physical memory: 8189 Mb
Available physical memory: 5474 Mb
Total page file memory: 16542 Mb
Available page file memory: 13720 Mb
Total virtual memory: 2047 Mb
Free virtual memory: 1653 Mb

[Application info]
Language: C++
Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, version 1310
App path: D:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe
App version: 1.1.0.358

[Exception info]
date: 09-20-08
time: 00.19.14
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x4e810d74
address: 0x00bcc714 "D:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe":0x0001:0x007cb714

[Call stack]

System config:

Intel Q6600 O/C 3Ghz
8gig 800MHZ DDRII RAM
XFX 8800 GTX (x 2)
Asus Striker Extreme Mobo
Asus HD Audio
EIDE Hard Drives (x2)
Sata Hard Drives (x2)
Vista x64 Ultimate
900 WATT Tagen Power Supply

Hopefully someone from ea will spot this exception and know what it means, and perhaps make a patch to fix it... most unlikely but one can wish.

Thinking of using vistas program restore ability to see if it can restore the game back to a point at wich it worked... but I'm doubting it will work. I'm unsure if it will just restore the directory files or if it will restore all the directory files and registry files that were changed.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31250.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31250.page GMT
However, on playing the game, I've noticed its very sluggish, and textures won't load up, sometimes creating aliasing around the objects, or white lines, as well. That's all I've seen so far, no sound issues. I've had to turn down my graphic settings though. Without the patch, I could play on high settings with no problems. Now I'm really pushing it to play at some low and some medium. What the heck is that about?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31305.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31305.page GMT
Got a serious problem. Installed the patch and it started crashing during play. It was so bad I removed the game and tried to reinstall, now I can't launch the game at all, it crashes as soon as it starts loading. Help![/quote]

My experience, your mileage may vary.

If you want to try and save your saved games, copy the SPORE folder in c:\program files\electronic arts (assuming you installed in the default location)
Rename your 'my documents\my spore creations folder (you wont loose your creations then).
Uninstall the game (saying YES to deleting the use created content)
Go to your Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE folder and either rename the folder or delete it if you don't have space.
Reboot
Reinstall the game
Reboot
It 'should' work now. I have done this twice now (grumble) and the game has worked for me again both times.

Note: If you installed the game somewhere other than c:\program files\electronic arts then look to the C: drive anyways. It would appear that data is getting written there (exception reports).

AGAIN: THIS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE. I DO NOT SPEAK FOR EA OR MAXIS ON THIS ISSUE.

Good Luck.

-Lego

p.s. My wife's computer (see earlier posts) may not be bug free. She might not have played enough to see the bugs I have. It appears to be a gradually building delay issue with animations and sounds, the longer you play the worse it gets.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31336.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31336.page GMT
I copied all the PACKAGE files from the disk to my Spore folder, then I ran spore and let it patch, then it worked.

Hope that helps people suffering from this problem.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31358.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31358.page GMT
I don't know if this is a solution for this particular situation, but it has helped in the past with other programs. This and the permissions problem is likely the culprit of everyone's issues as it's a very easy Games for Windows pitfall.[/quote]

Nope, still didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion though! ^___^]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31381.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31381.page GMT
1. Very laggy sound or some sounds missing alltogehter

2. Creatures that do not show up at all, but you can hear them

3. Cities/civs that dont load but you can see the "infected" yellow cloud (in the case of an exterminate mission)

4. Game that used to run 5-6 hours fine now cant seem to run 10 mins without a crash.


Here is just ONE of my crash reports, I dont read gibberish so it makes not sense to me.

[Exception info]
date: 09-19-08
time: 23.42.42
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000018
address: 0x00fc4d69 "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe":0x0001:0x00bc3d69

[Call stack]
C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe
0x00fc4d69

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe
0x23c28b60

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe
0x00bb0060

0x8504468b



]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31454.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31454.page GMT .]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31475.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31475.page GMT
anyways, I'm also having the laggy audio/visual/animation issues. spore was fine before the patch. blah blah blah]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31480.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31480.page GMT
And I have a sinking feeling I will have to start over since EA cant seem to do a proper patch. But there again is the issue. You delete the game and re-install, then you still have to install the "patch", so your back at square 1. a broken game again.

They need to just roll back to the old setup so we can play again, right now I cant do much of any thing.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31502.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31502.page GMT First the whole DRM thing and now this. Seems like this game is devolving into primordial ooze for business from the great highly evolved idea it once was.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31893.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31893.page GMT
Please can we have a rollback? For those of us that are experiencing issues with the patch (invis creatures, missing/lagged sound, etc) this would be a good move in the interest of the consumer.

Once you (EA/Maxis) have deduced the root of these issues, and hopefully resolved them, then issue a revision of the patch that will safely overwrite the rollback, and the current 1.01, and bring everyone's games up to a common 1.03 or whatever, with all the problems fixed and all the nice additions of 1.01 that only SOME of us are getting to experience right now.


I've done a little investigation on my end, and have discovered that if I start a new game/planet, the game seems to run perfectly fine, until I save/exit. The sound and invisible-creature issues seem to be affecting only my saved games that I've left and come back to. Not sure if this is true 100%, but so far for two new games it has been true, and both have bugged on me upon returning after a save/exit.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31911.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31911.page GMT
Once you (EA/Maxis) have deduced the root of these issues, and hopefully resolved them, then issue a revision of the patch that will safely overwrite the rollback, and the current 1.01, and bring everyone's games up to a common 1.03 or whatever, with all the problems fixed and all the nice additions of 1.01 that only SOME of us are getting to experience right now.


I've done a little investigation on my end, and have discovered that if I start a new game/planet, the game seems to run perfectly fine, until I save/exit. The sound and invisible-creature issues seem to be affecting only my saved games that I've left and come back to. Not sure if this is true 100%, but so far for two new games it has been true, and both have bugged on me upon returning after a save/exit.[/quote]

This please ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31926.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31926.page GMT I'm gonna keep playing with the non-patched version... if Spore allows me to that is. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31934.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31934.page GMT
Understandably, it would probably have to be delivered via a standalone, manually-downloaded update/patch CLEARLY labeled "ROLLBACK PATCH: ONLY INSTALL IF 1.01 FUBAR'D YOUR GAME" (or however you want to officially label it, so long as the people with working 1.01 aren't downloading it by accident). Then the next real patch afterward could be distributed via normal methods, and auto-downloaded by everyone so that we all come current with the same revision again, and back on track for any future patches/updates.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31940.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31940.page GMT
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31947.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/31947.page GMT
The game is now unplayable. My creatures are being killed by things I can't see, but I can't tell it's happening as the sound is lagging by 5-10 secs... awful, awful patch. [b]WE NEED A FIX RIGHT NOW, EA[/b]. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32001.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32001.page GMT
Error in event manager
Faulting application sporeapp.exe, version 1.1.0.358, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.5512, fault address 0x0008799b.

I am really annoyed I installed the patch because I had no problems except for static in the sound which I fixed by updating my sound driver.

I am going to be really annoyed if I have to uninstall the game and install again. Especially with that three activation thing! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32008.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32008.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32026.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32026.page GMT
Everything was mostly fine for a while (i.e. it took FOREVER for things to load in the cell stages, and I died at the hands of unseen things more than once, and the random missing critters in the creature stage.), then as I get to to the end of the creature stage the camera just starts rotating around my main critter. No matter what I try I can not get the rotation to stop. Save and Exit...it start rotating as soon as I reload.

Oh, and now you can not click on anything.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32071.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32071.page GMT

Vista, Core 2 Duo 2 GhZ 2Gb ram. Dell Inspiron 1520 in short.

Can someone please patch the patch?

*mutters darkly about wandering into the dark side just for this game, was happy in nice safe open source linux world - where oddly enough, only get this on clearly marked ALPHA stuff!*

hmm. point of booting into vista partition atm?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32132.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32132.page GMT

Vista, Core 2 Duo 2 GhZ 2Gb ram. Dell Inspiron 1520 in short.

Can someone please patch the patch?

*mutters darkly about wandering into the dark side just for this game, was happy in nice safe open source linux world - where oddly enough, only get this on clearly marked ALPHA stuff!*

hmm. point of booting into vista partition atm?[/quote]
lol, I love how people blame vista when its almost always their fault or the content.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32147.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32147.page GMT
After reading this thread I don't really think I would want to install it though.

------------------
System Information
------------------
Time of this report: 9/20/2008, 08:22:30
Machine name: MASTERPC
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: P5K-E
BIOS: BIOS Date: 03/21/08 09:56:22 Ver: 08.00.12
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 3328MB RAM
Page File: 340MB used, 4870MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32178.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32178.page GMT I am using Vista 64 and it's the EU version of spore if that makes a difference.

Firstly download the patch from the ea servers:
http://eu.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/f/eagames/spore/spore/patches/spore_dd_patch_all_v1.exe

Secondly deleted all the old install information which means delete everything in this directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{9DF0196F-B6B8-4C3A-8790-DE42AA530101}

(If you don' thave 64 then you can get rid of (x86) in the above).

Then ran the patch as an administrator (right click on the file and choose run as administrator.


Hopefully that helps at least someone.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32268.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32268.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32310.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32310.page GMT
hmm. point of booting into vista partition atm?[/quote]
lol, I love how people blame vista when its almost always their fault or the content.[/quote]

"Ell Oh Ell" I love how some folks on this forum are quick to blame the user when it is clear that the patch has caused crashes on previously smoothly working machines, the errors have distinctly common features (missing/lagging graphics and sound), and there is no response at all from EA/Maxis directly.

"Works on my machine" != "I am morally superior!"

I have run legit: no cracks, no "trainers." I haven't even opened the cheat panel. Note: No "joker" or "jester" achievement.

So where is my moral failing? Is it in having faith that EA/Maxis would test a patch before they put it out? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32347.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32347.page GMT
hmm. point of booting into vista partition atm?[/quote]
lol, I love how people blame vista when its almost always their fault or the content.[/quote]

"Ell Oh Ell" I love how some folks on this forum are quick to blame the user when it is clear that the patch has caused crashes on previously smoothly working machines, the errors have distinctly common features (missing/lagging graphics and sound), and there is no response at all from EA/Maxis directly.

"Works on my machine" != "I am morally superior!"

I have run legit: no cracks, no "trainers." I haven't even opened the cheat panel. Note: No "joker" or "jester" achievement.

So where is my moral failing? Is it in having faith that EA/Maxis would test a patch before they put it out? [/quote]Perhaps they can't test what changes it will make to EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM THAT EXISTS? Ever think of that?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32370.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32370.page GMT
My favorite most-advanced creature in space now crashes every time I attempt to load them in space, again, at the load screen. My first attempt to play them post-patch was after forming an Alliance with them from another of my space-faring races in order to get the "Identity Crises" Achievement. When I failed to get the Achievement on my younger space race, I logged the older to see if I had to log both races for the Achievement to process.

I have been unable to play my oldest space-faring race since. The other race is still playable.

Dell Inspiron 530
INtel Core 2 Duo CP E6550 @ 2.33GHz 2.33 GHz
32-bit Vista, Service Pack One (Home Premium)
4 gigabytes of dual channel DDR2.


NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Driver version 7.15.11.6371

I will look for new drivers, but Spore never crashed once before the patch no matter what I was doing.

Not that I am unhappy with the patch; the patch notes were terrific. I just want to be able to play the game now as intended.

My version of Spore is the Galactic Edition.

EDIT:

I have updated my driver to the latest by NVIDIA for my card, from June 2008. Now Driver version says 7.15.11.7519.

Neither issue is affected/improved by the updated driver; both crashes are happening exactly as before.

However, the "newer" driver procured two other new oddities, each not present before:

-I can no longer skip the EA intro. Before, I could press "Escape" after the EA-Galaxy icon explodes and skip the rest of everything being sucked into the resulting black hole. Now I am forced to watch the whole intro.
-Now any changes in resolution do not affect Spore unless I quit the game entirely and restart. Formerly, as any other game, Spore would re-adjust in-game, loading its own graphics as soon as a new resolution was selected and confirmed.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32390.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32390.page GMT
Do you know what a beta version is for? Or a tests computer farm?

BTW, it seems that the problem is not isolated... look at the number of people with problems here... and add me to the list... I've installed the patch, and now in creature game, the actions don't show up... the creature keeps standing still while it should be attacking or singing... (it seems that the action is being performed, but not animated)...

[b]EA: ROLLBACK URGENT, PLEASE!!!
[/b]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32442.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32442.page GMT
I did think of that. I do this for a living (software development) and we have system profiles. We make sure we test on a representative sample of 80% or more. And we have millions of customers.

So, I'm not asking for "every single system that exists." I'm asking for 80%. Seems like their threshold is 60%, especially considering they put out specs for what it will run on. I'm well within those specs. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32454.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32454.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32532.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32532.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32581.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32581.page GMT
You can imagine my quandary. [/quote]

You don't have to reinstall.

If you're trying to patch Spore to 1.01 and see this error:

"Old file not found. However, a file with the same name was found. No update done since contents differ."

Do this to fix it:

You need to insert the Spore DVD. If you downloaded the game I'm not sure how to fix this, sorry.

Open explorer and on the DVD go to the spore\data directory. Open another explorer window and go to the spore\data directory on your hard drive where the game is installed.

Copy the entire contents of the data folder on the DVD to the data folder on your hard drive. This will take a minute or five. Once it's all copied over, re-run the patch and it should install without that error.

Hope I've helped someone.[/quote]

Thank you, you did help someone, me.

So far no post patch problems either. Phew.

Cheers.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32720.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32720.page GMT
[color=blue]Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

Please ensure that all firewall, or internet security programs are properly configured for the game. You will want to configure them by adding the game to their allowed or exceptions lists. Disabling them usually does not work as they tend to have passive protection even when turned off, possibly blocking connections for certain applications only. If you need assistance with this, please contact the manufacturer of the firewall program.

If there is anything else we can help you with please let me know.

Sincerely,

EARep Roddy
Player Relations
Electronic Arts[/color]


Not relevant at all.

Edit: DON'T INSTALL THE PATCH. If you are getting errors installing the patch then stop trying. Maybe the next one will install properly and fix these issues. I still get the 5-10 min crash, missing sounds and animations, lag, etc.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32741.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32741.page GMT
[...snipped...]
Not relevant at all.
[/quote]

I don't understand why people bother. I'm not trying to be sarcastic here, but what, 1 in 5 anything offered by those support rep will help? I prefer browsing the forums. MUCH more helpful.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32780.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32780.page GMT

totally agree, since the patch game out I can't even play for 10 mins before the game freezes, i don't see how they can release a patch AND TEST IT all within 11 days of the release date of the game]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32822.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32822.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3378.page]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32837.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32837.page GMT
My game ran perfectly before installing the patch, now I can't get more than 5 minutes out of it.
I can't say if I am having the same issues as the rest of you, because the game keeps crashing.
I do have one issue that I didn't notice on any other page here......
Every time I start the game it asks me to download the patch, even after having done it already.
Is there some way we can "bully" the guys at EA or Maxis to get on the ball here?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32885.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32885.page GMT
Oh they did get ON the ball. But the darn thing rolled off and they're trying to get back on their feet. Might take a while though.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32898.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32898.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32913.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32913.page GMT
The game is now unplayable. My creatures are being killed by things I can't see, but I can't tell it's happening as the sound is lagging by 5-10 secs... awful, awful patch. [b]WE NEED A FIX RIGHT NOW, EA[/b]. [/quote]

Same here! This sucks! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32950.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32950.page GMT
I agree with this statement, and bravo for saying it. I personally think that Will Wright is a freakin genius, and that EA/Maxis is an awesome company (or companies). The fact that they were able to create such a hugely popular game that everyone loves is a huge achivement. And games can't always work 100% correctly the first time around. I do agree, though, that it's rather sadly pathetic that their patch made things worse. I suppose I was lucky; after dealing with that stupid downloaded wanting to ALWAYS download that stupid Sims Store Edition (which I finally had to do anyways), I kept the thing off. So, when I went into Spore, it said I couldn't download the patch. Now I'm glad I couldn't! But having to make a patch for a patch? That's pretty sad!!!

But I give props to Will Wright, and EA/Maxis for their hard work, and I am rather pleased that they were able to get the patch out as quickly as they did. Maybe they were so eager to get the game working that they didn't spend as much time as they might normally have, or should have, testing the patch first. You can't please everyone at all times. Give them time, things will work themselves out. I kinda feel bad for EA, actually, cause they are trying to please us as players, but ended up making things worse. But they'll get it right, I know they will!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32970.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/32970.page GMT
Dunno if this is a patch issue but this is a post patch problem that I did not have Pre-patch.

Here's a new one. From tribal on my icon looks like this (see below) . There is no civ or space icon even if I change the costume. So there is nothing to upload. no matter what I do it will not save.

Just started a second game, same thing happened. Crash on entering space, lost the planet (down to 6 again but they seem to pop back up in a few days)

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-Poetry|2263387538%3Asast-500086221647

[img]http://ll-221.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/086/221/500086221647_lrg.png[/img]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33013.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33013.page GMT
Thats what windows log says went wrong. what can I do to fix it. I don't mind waiting a couple of days but seriously, why did those bozos at EA think that everyone used their C: drive, even people who do use it are having problems, seriously there are over 20 pages in this forum about people complaining about the product. EA MUST STOP DISTRIBUTING SPORE VERSION 1.01 PATCH. If they can't fix the problem right now, the least they could do is let the people who haven't updated still play their darn game!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33052.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33052.page GMT
I don't know if it will help, but SPORE it...........I'm ready to petition them.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33191.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33191.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33254.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33254.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33256.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33256.page GMT
Also, whenever I am sent on a exterminate mission, I see the yellow glow, but I do not see the creature I am supposed to eradicate. When I click on the area, sometimes it wkills it, other times not. Usually I run out of energy.

(I can't speak to the sound issue because I never hear sounds hehe)

peace]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33258.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33258.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
. |
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006
[/quote]

It takes a LONG time to install like watch a clock and give it at least 5-10 minutes it really kinda weird but how you described it is how it looks you just have to wait it out. I have installed succesfully but it basically toasted my performance; turned it into a laggy slideshow even the opening splash movie.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33264.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33264.page GMT
Well i gave it enough time, i mean i already said i gave is 30 mins+ and it still did the same thing, im sorry but theres is something extremely wrong, also this was the worst 1st patch in video game history ever.
Just, Maxis, please try to be more careful in the future, not to critisize because i still do love spore.
So to speak, you just -Balmed!- this one up.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33280.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33280.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006 [/quote]
Run the patch again and leave your computer alone for 20 minutes or so. It will start at 0%, jump to 100%, go back to 0%, and then repeat this a dozen times or so. Just walk away from your computer, ignore what it's doing, and come back in 20 to 30 minutes when the confirmation message that the patch installed successfully appears. [b]You terminated the process after it had only updated 1 file out of many files that need to be updated![/b] Are a lot of people doing this? I know it's really annoying to watch a program hit 100% multiple times, especially when your boss is on his way over to ask you to work the weekend (that was from Office Space for those who don't know), but some programs do do that.

Maxis/EA really should have done the 'working' bar instead of multiple 100%'s (a working bar is one that doesn't even count...it just keeps going back and forth letting you know the program is still spinning its wheels). This may be a contributory design failure causing a lot of people to think the patch failed.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33311.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33311.page GMT
The patch is making my game progressively worse and worse every time I try to play.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33319.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33319.page GMT
Fat chance of any admission. They still won't admit their DRM actually backfired. I might expect to see a little backpedaling, but I also imagine EA oversight is still pushing EADM adoption really forcefully.

See, it's all about dollars. So, if you have a game and they put out a free patch and it doesn't work, they already have your money. Plus, they have lots of people that claim that they don't have a problem proselytizing EA on the board and leveling the accusations EA doesn't want to that it's users of cracked executables only who have the problems.

If they would wake up and see it is legitimate users, users who will vote with dollars against any expansions to a broken game... but then it seems to take weeks for anything to travel up to the EA brain from the pain receptors here in the forum. I got the Galactic Edition pre-ordered. Apparently a first-class ticket pre-purchased doesn't mean they won't stick you in the luggage hold at the first opportunity. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33351.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33351.page GMT
Exactly. That's why I'm not buying the Rock Band 2 bundle or Need for Speed: Undercover when they're released unless they fix Spore in a timely manner.

Why give EA more $$$ when they continue to provide bad support?

When I purchased Rock Band 1, the guitar controller broke within 8 hours of opening the box. It took them FIVE MONTHS to send me a replacement. Their only excuse: "We seem to have lost your RMA."

The only reason I bought Spore is because I've been waiting for it for two years and I'm a huge Will Wright fan. This was EA's chance at redemption and, so far, they're blowing it.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33406.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33406.page GMT
Lee]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33429.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33429.page GMT
It said something about it failing and after restarting Spore it prompted me to download the patch, which when clicking 'yes' started a fresh download.
I can find no evidence of the patch anywhere on my system.

So, am I to rely on downloading it from a 3rd party, or am I missing something?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33450.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33450.page GMT
lets hope Maxis/EA gets this FUBAR patch fixed ASAP

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33474.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33474.page GMT
The small ammount of time I played in post patch space I was attacked several times by either pirates or the Grox, I thought they lowered the number of attacks (especially in easy, which I am playing). Maybe I'm just unlucky.

Also a minor, but somewhat irritating one is that I cannot skip the Spore title sequence, the one right after the EA logo, when I run the game.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33601.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33601.page GMT

One dissatisfied Spore owner!!! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33661.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33661.page GMT
I do know for all its bugs, this game was a hell of a lot more fun to play BEFORE the patch... and I'm not going to try a reinstall when EA's made it work against me with their DRM. What the hell?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33693.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33693.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33885.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33885.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006 [/quote]
Run the patch again and leave your computer alone for 20 minutes or so. It will start at 0%, jump to 100%, go back to 0%, and then repeat this a dozen times or so. Just walk away from your computer, ignore what it's doing, and come back in 20 to 30 minutes when the confirmation message that the patch installed successfully appears. [b]You terminated the process after it had only updated 1 file out of many files that need to be updated![/b] Are a lot of people doing this? I know it's really annoying to watch a program hit 100% multiple times, especially when your boss is on his way over to ask you to work the weekend (that was from Office Space for those who don't know), but some programs do do that.

Maxis/EA really should have done the 'working' bar instead of multiple 100%'s (a working bar is one that doesn't even count...it just keeps going back and forth letting you know the program is still spinning its wheels). This may be a contributory design failure causing a lot of people to think the patch failed.[/quote]
hmmmmm. so mine just sat on 0% for a half hour without moving, so i alt ctrl delete it since it was boring. now spore does not try to update, i have no idea if it worked. the game still runs perfect EXCEPT ALL SAVED GAMES CTD WHEN LOADED. exactly like it has been since day 4 (prepatch). so, is there exe somewhere i can download? my version number for spore is 1.1.388 or something similar.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33959.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33959.page GMT
Now the patch seems to be applying correctly which it did not from the EA downloader. Like others have said the % bar takes forever to fill for each file being patched. Just walk away and leave it. I suggest doing it when you go to bed. If its not done when you wake up you still have a problem.... ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33989.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/33989.page GMT Because the ritalin kiddies aren't capable of reading other peoples' threads, they just make their own when they have something to say. It happens on every game forum anywhere in the universe.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34068.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34068.page GMT Ever since i installed the patch the sound in the beginning video lags to the point where it is still going when I'm trying to find the saved game i want to start up in a sea of stars without markers. THAT'S RIGHT! I can't see my saved games anymore. I have to randomly move my mouse over the screen just hoping i will go over the save game i want to play. Then when i do get in and resume my civ stage game it lags! I try to build a building and for some reason i am no longer getting the building sounds when i pick up and drop pieces. Now some people may say 'big deal you cant hear noises' but it really takes the quality away from the game. Especially when you hear the sounds you wanted to hear earlier when your painting you building! Not to mention the fact that when i go into the sporepedia it takes 5 minutes to load what should take 10 seconds. If there is anyway to uninstall this patch I'm all for it. This patch really messed up my $50 dollar game. I really expected more from what i payed so much money to get. Fix it EA! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34089.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34089.page GMT my problem is when it get to "Patching Files" The whole computer freezes and I have to turn it off. How do I fix that? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34250.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34250.page GMT
Now the game won't even start.

I waited for this game for over 5 years. Now I'm being screwed with faulting patches. I will never buy a game from either EA, Maxis or Will Wright again.

Congratulations guys, you just made a pirate out of me.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34284.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34284.page GMT
Now the game won't even start.

I waited for this game for over 5 years. Now I'm being screwed with faulting patches. I will never buy a game from either EA, Maxis or Will Wright again.

Congratulations guys, you just made a pirate out of me.[/quote]

Stay away from my spice, guy.

Okay, I seem to be having more problems with the patch than without (I had a pre-existing glitch where a large blue circle would mysteriously appear in the same place on every planet I visited), so I'm reinstalling the game and seeing if that will fix it. And supposedly, reapplying the patch should should fix everything? Or just begin this cycle of evil anew?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34312.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34312.page GMT
So...I recommend putting it on to patch and then going to bed.

On second thought, the patch has caused more problems than it has fixed, so just skip it and wait a few months. If I could do it over again, I'd undo installing the patch, since it screwed up my sound.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34349.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34349.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34393.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34393.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34538.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34538.page GMT
Now the game won't even start.

I waited for this game for over 5 years. Now I'm being screwed with faulting patches. I will never buy a game from either EA, Maxis or Will Wright again.

Congratulations guys, you just made a pirate out of me.[/quote]

[b]Stay away from my spice, guy.[/b]

Okay, I seem to be having more problems with the patch than without (I had a pre-existing glitch where a large blue circle would mysteriously appear in the same place on every planet I visited), so I'm reinstalling the game and seeing if that will fix it. And supposedly, reapplying the patch should should fix everything? Or just begin this cycle of evil anew?[/quote]

That was golden .]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34547.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34547.page GMT
When will the patch be patched?

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34569.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34569.page GMT
Vista 64-Bit users...

I was experiencing MAJOR POST-PATCH issues, including, flashing screen, freezing, crashing, the stupid "there's a new patch" (even though I have downloaded and installed it)...before I was just simply running the game straight from the folder the game is located in...but then just for ****** and giggles I decided to run it from the Games folder located outta the start menu...for some STUPID reason this seems to have fixed 100% of all the issues I listed earlier...i have no idea or any clue as to why it did this, but it fixed it...so I thought I would share it just in case]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34585.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34585.page GMT Also which Vista are you running? I have Vista Ultimate and there has never been a Spore icon generated in that folder on my system.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34615.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34615.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006
[/quote]

Like others have said, this patch can take a looong time to install. The bar reverts back to 0% because it's showing you the progress of an individual file, not the entire patch. There are multiple files the patch has to install and so the reversion will happen multiple times.

For me the patch took an hour and 15 minutes to install. Leave your computer alone for at least that long... maybe even up to 2 hours. If it hasn't finished installing after 2 hours then you might have a problem, but more likely the patch is just taking it's sweet time on your machine.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34685.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34685.page GMT
But, being post-patch myself, I've been trying to get the game to run again. It really feels like a caching problem to me.

Letting the game sit on the galaxy screen for a long time will eventually get most of the planet graphics to load. I was able to go into the creators without any problems, so that was good. It's given me some time to get my creations organized and tags started.

Then I loaded a game and paused it for a while. Soon after, I ran around and tried some different actions. Initially there was a lack of animation and sound lag, but the game soon started to smooth out. For previously attempted actions, animations began to play and sounds synched back up.

But as soon as I had to do something I haven't done before (ie socialize, combat, fly, eat, go to a new nest, etc), the problems returned while the game tried to figure out how to do it.

So, it really seems like a decimal got moved on a cache setting or something and Spore just doesn't have enough memory available (be it RAM or drive space) to remember everything it's done before.

Then again, I'm just an end user, system administrator and beta tester, not a programmer.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34747.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34747.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34753.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34753.page GMT
Hardware:

HP Pavilion DV8000
CPU: Turion64
Video: ATI Radeon Express 200M

Solutions:
New Patch soon??????
Rolling back to pre-patch (version 1.0) ---- Do I have to re-install the entire game to do this, or is there a way to remove the patch until it is updated. I'm thinking it's a video card issue, driver conflict. I might be running my video card a little hard to get Spore running smooth, but it worked fine before the patch was installed.

Any suggestions?
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34756.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34756.page GMT
I'mma going to go through all 22 pages of this thread and see if any of you found a way to make the patch work right, and then I'll probably re-ask this anyway. Hell, I'll ask again now: what's the way to make this patch work right? Ironically, I had no problems installing it in the first place.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34837.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34837.page GMT
There is no way to make the patch work right, it seems. From reading this forum, looks like probably 99% of the people who are suffering problems now had none at all previous to the patch. So...definitely say don't patch unless the game is crashing right out of the box. Otherwise, the new patch has a good chance of screwing up your game in some way.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34929.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/34929.page GMT
I had the "cache" bug upon installing the patch. i.e. invisible objects, creatures, planet texture etc...
I did a full uninstall, saving (copying elsewhere)
C:\Documents and Settings\Yannick\Application Data\SPORE\Games
and
C:\Documents and Settings\Yannick\Application Data\SPORE\EditorSaves.package

I deleted the content of the SPORE folder.

I re-installed, copied the folder and file back.

For some reasons the game did not download from the server every of my creation (especially, no building cars or ufos) but I got most of them (creatures) back and my save game are working. Of course I'll click "not yet" when asked to patch from now on.
I've jsut played 2 hours straight with the same bug free environement I was used to.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35001.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35001.page GMT

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3378.page]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35156.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35156.page GMT
Now I have started again and am up to the tribal stage and have had NOT ONE frigging error. EA can stick its patch up its ar$e.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35342.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35342.page GMT This does NOT mean that 99% of Spore players are having problems with the patch.

Forums exist, primarily, for people to moan and groan about their difficulties and hopefully find someone with whom they can sympathize.

Just for the record, I have had no problems with Spore or the patch.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35404.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35404.page GMT
However, I AM getting crashes much, much more often. The game would randomly abort sometimes when I try to enter Tribe editor/City Planner and even crashed once when I was flying toward a planet in space phase! The crash
seems completely random and would happen every 20-30 minutes. (Which is just ridiculous, imo.)

I CAN go on for pages about how disappointed I am, but I guess we have enough of that on this forum as is.

I never really thought much of what my friends told me about EA, but right now I'm starting to see their point. u_u I sincerely hope the next patch will fix these problems, and until then, I guess I won't be touching Spore.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35460.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35460.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35542.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35542.page GMT

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3378.page[/quote]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35552.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35552.page GMT
I'm having the exact same thing. The full error message:
[b][i]"The setup has detected that no version of SPORE™ is installed.
This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."[/i][/b]

Apparently, this is because Spore is installed on a different partition than Windows. But after having a look at the Windows registry; the key [b]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\SPORE[/b] clearly contains a value called [b]"InstallLoc"[/b], which holds the installation location of the game, including the partition letter. EA's patching platform is, it seems, slightly retarded.

I mean, why give people the option of choosing a different installation location and then develop a patching platform that doesn't take that into account? That's just not thought through [i]at all[/i].

[size=18]Come on, EA; fix it! You've already [u][url=http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/195/3173.page#29989]promised someone[/url][/u] a fixed patch two days ago![/size]

And Maxis: why do you put up with this? You created a masterpiece, but EA is clearly ruining EVERYTHING!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35624.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35624.page GMT cause ea sucks at patch making *COUGH*
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35634.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35634.page GMT
Today, I managed to strike a little bit of gold. If you're having problems with not seeing user-created content (buildings and creatures especially), then whip up your Sporepedia and go into Creations, then Everything. Let the cards load, and if you're trying to kill or observe a certain creature then search for it and click on the ellipses at the bottom of the card. If it loads perfectly, then close Sporepedia and it should load magically.

Can't beat a bit of voodoo.

[EDIT] Turns out I'm no where near the first person to discover this, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35700.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35700.page GMT
I tried that very thing and it didn't work. The game loaded and told me my config file wasn't correct and there was an error regaring it's ability to set my video card properly.

tried several times after installing again and this didn't resolve my problems.

regards,

Papi.

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35724.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35724.page GMT Everything works fine but then...
When it says 'patching spore' or similar
the % bar appears:
________________________________
|______________0%______________|

And looks somewhat like this ^
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It 'installs' perfectly, however when it reaches 100%, the bar revert back to 0% and it does this till i forcibly end the progam using ctrl+alt+del.
I have to end the proccess this way other wise if i try to click on the patch installer my screen goes white and lags back into normal, then it lags like hell until i end the proccess using ctrl+alt+del.
Ive tried leaving the installer on for 30mins+ and it still does this.

Maxis+Spore players can you please help.

Also can SporeMasterKaliena, any mods/SporeMasters or players give any advice whatsoever.

Thank You, I would greatly appreciate is you guys helped.

Vbdude006 [/quote]
Run the patch again and leave your computer alone for 20 minutes or so. It will start at 0%, jump to 100%, go back to 0%, and then repeat this a dozen times or so. Just walk away from your computer, ignore what it's doing, and come back in 20 to 30 minutes when the confirmation message that the patch installed successfully appears. [b]You terminated the process after it had only updated 1 file out of many files that need to be updated![/b] Are a lot of people doing this? I know it's really annoying to watch a program hit 100% multiple times, especially when your boss is on his way over to ask you to work the weekend (that was from Office Space for those who don't know), but some programs do do that.

Maxis/EA really should have done the 'working' bar instead of multiple 100%'s (a working bar is one that doesn't even count...it just keeps going back and forth letting you know the program is still spinning its wheels). This may be a contributory design failure causing a lot of people to think the patch failed.[/quote]
hmmmmm. so mine just sat on 0% for a half hour without moving, so i alt ctrl delete it since it was boring. now spore does not try to update, i have no idea if it worked. the game still runs perfect EXCEPT ALL SAVED GAMES CTD WHEN LOADED. exactly like it has been since day 4 (prepatch). so, is there exe somewhere i can download? my version number for spore is 1.1.388 or something similar.[/quote]

This is exactly my problem. Is there somewhere I can go to check my version #er? I cant seemj to find it.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35878.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35878.page GMT
I'm having the exact same thing. The full error message:
[b][i]"The setup has detected that no version of SPORE™ is installed.
This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."[/i][/b]

Apparently, this is because Spore is installed on a different partition than Windows. But after having a look at the Windows registry; the key [b]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\SPORE[/b] clearly contains a value called [b]"InstallLoc"[/b], which holds the installation location of the game, including the partition letter. EA's patching platform is, it seems, slightly retarded.

I mean, why give people the option of choosing a different installation location and then develop a patching platform that doesn't take that into account? That's just not thought through [i]at all[/i].

[size=18]Come on, EA; fix it! You've already [u][url=http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/195/3173.page#29989]promised someone[/url][/u] a fixed patch two days ago![/size]

And Maxis: why do you put up with this? You created a masterpiece, but EA is clearly ruining EVERYTHING![/quote]

Are you using Vista or XP? I have it installed on a different partition for XP and the patch installed fine. I wish it hadn't since its introduced a bunch of problems and made the game unplayable, but it did install.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35902.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35902.page GMT
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/3378.page#29060

and it worked perfectly. I have played 2 days since re-installing and have had no problems from the game. One possible explination: there was a similar issue with the Sims 2. The game would corrupt itself beacuse 3 files (thumbnails, group.cache and accessories.cache) are generated at game start-up and overwrite the previous ones. This would inevitably cause duplicity issues and eventual crashes in my game. I would delete these files at the end of every playing session, and the game would re-generate them at start-up of the next session; none of my saved gameplay was affected.
I followed Krogoth's suggestions, but had forgotten to remove the Pollination package prior to re-installation. Before I tried to do the whole dag-blamed process again, for s#!@s and giggles, I dragged the Pollination file to my desktop and started the game. Sure enough, it generated the file at start -up and the game was as good as it ever was before the patch. So if someone out there is feeling adventerous, has not unistalled the game, and still has the patch installed, I'm curoius if removing the Pollination package will fix the bugs and still keep the benefits of the patch. Don't delete the file, just move it to the desktop in case you might still need it. Any takers?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35915.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35915.page GMT
Tried it still borked.
I have seemed to figure out how to make all the creatures visible though. Look in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\SPORE and see if you have a [b]GraphicsCache.001.package[/b] make sure it has the 001 in it. I got rid of that and the creatrues all appear nicely. Make sure to back it up just incase.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35979.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35979.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35985.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/35985.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36046.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36046.page GMT Can't even play at all.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36122.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36122.page GMT I started a new file, and played through the cell stage. Everything was fine. But then, when I got to land, my creature was completely white. So, I reproduced and was born again, and it seemed to fix it. BUT, now all other creatures around me are colored blue and purple, in places they shouldn't! It's really weird...

I shut down Spore and I'm hoping that restarting it will fix it, but if anyone else has had this problem then please tell me! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36321.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36321.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36474.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36474.page GMT ...
The full error message:
[b][i]"The setup has detected that no version of SPORE™ is installed.
This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."[/i][/b]
...
[/quote]
Are you using Vista or XP? I have it installed on a different partition for XP and the patch installed fine. I wish it hadn't since its introduced a bunch of problems and made the game unplayable, but it did install.[/quote]
Both, actually. I run XP Pro (SP3) on my desktop PC. And I run Vista (32bit) on my laptop. Both run fine, both have C:\ as system partition and D:\Games\Spore are Spore's installation path. Did you get the patch through Spore and EADM? And what's the rest of your system like? Are you on SP3?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36575.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36575.page GMT
So, where's the fix for this? I'm not going to reinstall just because I can't install the patch since my game is in c:\games\spore

Who designed this?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36611.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36611.page GMT
It was working perfectly the day before, but now its just annoying, and im sure its because of the patc.

**also, my computer is very good(8g of ram, 8800Ultra etc)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36805.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/36805.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37011.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37011.page GMT ...
The full error message:
[b][i]"The setup has detected that no version of SPORE™ is installed.
This update requires that a previous version of the application be installed."[/i][/b]
...
[/quote]
Are you using Vista or XP? I have it installed on a different partition for XP and the patch installed fine. I wish it hadn't since its introduced a bunch of problems and made the game unplayable, but it did install.[/quote]
Both, actually. I run XP Pro (SP3) on my desktop PC. And I run Vista (32bit) on my laptop. Both run fine, both have C:\ as system partition and D:\Games\Spore are Spore's installation path. Did you get the patch through Spore and EADM? And what's the rest of your system like? Are you on SP3?[/quote]

I got it through Spore by clicking Yes in answer to the new patch available dialog so I guess it used EADM to download it. I'm only using XP Pro SP2. The OS is on the C drive and the game is installed to the N drive. My download cache for EADM is also on the N drive - maybe that makes a difference.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37099.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37099.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37118.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37118.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37153.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37153.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37198.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37198.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37206.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37206.page GMT
Edit: If I uninstall spore, would the patch be deleted? If so would that fix my problem?
PM me if u have answer plz!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37304.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37304.page GMT my patch installed completely fine. But now my game lasts for about 5-10 min and then it gets out to desktop. It comes up with it encountered a problem and had to shut down.
It's really annoying i love spore and would like to play it for more than 5 minutes at a time. can someone help?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37330.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37330.page GMT
(p.s. Love the new forums soooooo much bettah it eats trolls!)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37352.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37352.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37373.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37373.page GMT
[quote]
After you have installed the patch and Spore is crashing when you start, please try the following:

Similar steps to those above, go to the folder below:

For Windows XP
\Documents and Settings\(Username)\Application Data\SPORE

For Windows Vista
\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming\SPORE

Note: The Application Data directory may be hidden. To display hidden files:

1. Click on the Tools menu.
2. Click Folder Options.
3. Click on the View tab.
4. Click on Show Hidden Files and Folders in the options box.


For backups, right-click in this folder and create a folder named PackageBackup.
Move all the .package files from the SPORE folder into it EXCEPT EditorSaves.package.
Restart Spore.
My Creations should start to repopulate.
It may help to enable the Buddy Content Only and click yes in the popup window. Sometimes more content is added when you select this option.
You can disable the Buddy Content Only after My Creations stops getting populated.
Note: It may take a while to re download your content from the server, but your saved games will not be affected.
If you have an issue once this is done, you can copy all your package files from the created PackageBackup folder into the original Spore folder location to undo this procedure.
[/quote]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37403.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37403.page GMT
All your game data should be in you OS's users file area and should remain (My Documents). That said - the problem may be with cache data which is also in your users file area (Application Data) and so the problem may persist after reinstall/patch if the uninstaller does not remove them.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37416.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37416.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37489.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37489.page GMT
All your game data should be in you OS's users file area and should remain (My Documents). That said - the problem may be with cache data which is also in your users file area (Application Data) and so the problem may persist after reinstall/patch if the uninstaller does not remove them.[/quote]

nvm, that file recovery thing didnt work, it recovered ALL the files except the setup/install .exe

i took 3 days dl the game... SPORE ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37511.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37511.page GMT
i know, we're doomed]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37525.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37525.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37731.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37731.page GMT
Pretty much my issue exactly, and alot more your definetly not alone.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37765.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37765.page GMT pre-patch
[img]http://ll-430.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/085/430/500085430538_lrg.png[/img]

Patch [img]http://ll-221.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/086/221/500086221647_lrg.png[/img]
Reinstall - repatch. [img]http://ll-802.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/095/802/500095802370_lrg.png[/img]

So alignment was fixed with the reinstall no longer taking re-ar side pictures. Still double image and background included, even in the shadow.

ok one more try... that is my last re-install before having to contact EA .[img]http://ll-557.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/096/557/500096557544_lrg.png[/img]
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37797.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37797.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37990.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37990.page GMT
Still, given all the patch problems I've seen in this thread, maybe it's a good thing...

I'd like to be able to try it out for myself, though.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37999.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/37999.page GMT
Still, given all the patch problems I've seen in this thread, maybe it's a good thing...

I'd like to be able to try it out for myself, though.[/quote]

http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/f/eagames/spore/spore/patches/spore_dd_patch_all_v1.exe]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38016.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38016.page GMT
Still, given all the patch problems I've seen in this thread, maybe it's a good thing...

I'd like to be able to try it out for myself, though.[/quote]

http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/f/eagames/spore/spore/patches/spore_dd_patch_all_v1.exe[/quote]

Thanks! And it only took about 15-20 minutes to download manually.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38078.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38078.page GMT
No, I'm [i]not[/i] happy.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38149.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38149.page GMT No one else is mentioning the creators so am I alone in this? and does anyone have any suggestions?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38294.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38294.page GMT
After installing the patch I saw missing sounds and animations, disappearing creatures, overall "laginess" - i.e. the creature would pick the food or new part after several seconds.

Clearing the .package files fixed some of disappearing creatures problems but did not affect animation, sound and lag issues. The problems also were happening on brand new game with whole spore settings/saves folder deleted.

I reinstalled without the patch - everything is working fine again.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38373.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38373.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38409.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38409.page GMT pre-patch
[img]http://ll-430.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/085/430/500085430538_lrg.png[/img]

Patch [img]http://ll-221.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/086/221/500086221647_lrg.png[/img]
Reinstall - repatch. [img]http://ll-802.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/095/802/500095802370_lrg.png[/img]

So alignment was fixed with the reinstall no longer taking re-ar side pictures. Still double image and background included, even in the shadow.

ok one more try... that is my last re-install before having to contact EA .[img]http://ll-557.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/096/557/500096557544_lrg.png[/img]
[/quote]

evolution!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38512.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38512.page GMT
EA, please fix this...]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38518.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38518.page GMT
I've downloaded the link Trambam provided. But when the Install Wizard begins patching in the first minute or so, it crashes by freezing up and "not responding."]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38527.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38527.page GMT
Still, given all the patch problems I've seen in this thread, maybe it's a good thing...

I'd like to be able to try it out for myself, though.[/quote]

Count your lucky stars man - I've been unable to install the patch (dls fine), but I'm thankful beyond measure for that because I'm still able to play the game with the minor (original) annoyances, as opposed to this unplayable mess that 50% of the community is now experiencing.

I'd say for all those really trying to install or dl the patch and having trouble - stop and tough it out!

Later,
~J]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38594.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38594.page GMT My game ran quickly before the patch.

But I don't really get what I should do about this. The first post seems to be solutions for other problems?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38662.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38662.page GMT
But I don't really get what I should do about this. The first post seems to be solutions for other problems?[/quote]
If you have mystery animations and ragged framerates, really the only thing you can do is uninstall-reinstall and hope your game launches. Then, ignore the message about the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38692.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38692.page GMT
But I don't really get what I should do about this. The first post seems to be solutions for other problems?[/quote]
If you have mystery animations and ragged framerates, really the only thing you can do is uninstall-reinstall and hope your game launches. Then, ignore the message about the patch.[/quote]

Hey Schlippo or anyone for that matter, what are the specific files I need to save when I reinstall the game, that will allow me to keep all of my creatures and my progress?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38740.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38740.page GMT
Unfortunately, after the reinstall, my game will no longer launch. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38778.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38778.page GMT
Unfortunately, after the reinstall, my game will no longer launch. [/quote]e_e I wish you had said that before. Now my game wont launch either.
-Flings a chair-]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38791.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38791.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38811.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38811.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38831.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38831.page GMT 1. Save and Load errors. When saving if you dont log off and back on the next save wont stick. Loads wont work if you save then go back to menu, back to same planet. It just freezes.
2. Graphical error where some animations are slow to show up if at all.
3. Sun shines through planet from time to time. Scared the crap out of me the first time. Thought my sun went nova
4. Air units wont defend themselves even when on attack mode.

Good things-
I love the new animations and graphics. Clearer when they work by a ton! AI is a bit sharper. Especially on hard. Speaking of Hard is hard now. Just try being religious on hard hehe. All in all patch needs work but its a start ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38841.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38841.page GMT Trying to re-add my old save files just breaks it again, though. I guess they're forever tainted by the Patch of Evil.
But that's alright, I start new planets more often than I play my old ones anyway.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38859.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38859.page GMT Even though Id lose my pride and joy empire
Truth be told I dont know if I could stand it.. Hehe Ive been playing on hard the first time and finally beat the crud out of a all military planet with religious troops. Talk about tough!
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38907.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38907.page GMT
So far the game is at least playable with only minor issues but if I try to use any old saves everything goes to pot again.

One thing I noticed in creature post patch was the social game seemed much harder not all creatures in a tribe reacted the same. This made the whole thing seem more strategic.

Tribal and Civ were also much better with tribe actually challenging me.

Better mention I played on normal.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38964.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38964.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38979.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38979.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38982.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38982.page GMT Settings/Username/Spore.

I firstly uninstalled the whole game then deleted the Spore folder as above and the Electronic Arts Spore folder in Program Files.

Then I reinstalled the game and made sure these files where still deleted.

Then I downloaded and installed the new patch and started a new game from Cell.

Hope this makes sense and helps.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38990.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/38990.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39002.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39002.page GMT
Gameplay isn't perfect but it's a step in the right direction while we wait for an official fix.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39016.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39016.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39022.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39022.page GMT I installed it once and immediately tried to download the patch because it asks you right away. However, once download began my system just locked up. I tried again with same results. I then installed it on another computer, and tried to patch that one. The system also locked up and when I rebooted the installation of Spore was gone! So i reinstalled it and now i just skip the patch and both run fine. Now that I have read some of the evil things it can do, I'm glad that my computer crashed and the patch didnt install.... really dodged a bullet there.

Also, EA NEEDS TO PULL THE PATCH!!!!!! Seriously.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39048.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39048.page GMT
Has EA admitted that the patch has problems?

[color=blue]Hello,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Customer Support regarding Spore. I have some troubleshooting steps and FAQs I think might help solve the issue you’re having with installing Spore.

If you are getting an error that Spore Creature Creator has to be uninstalled before you can install Spore, please check out the FAQ below on how to manually uninstall Spore Creature Creator.

http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easpore.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=20283

If you are getting a CRC error, or an error when trying to copy a file during the installation of Spore, first try ending your unnecessary background tasks. This should free up system resources and improve the performance of your installation. Click the link below for instructions.

http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=10700

Try to do a manually install of the game. This involves copying all of the files off your game’s disk to a folder on your desktop and running the autorun or setup programs. More information on this process can be found by clicking the following link.

http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=14221

If the above steps fail to fix the installation issue, there could be something wrong with the game disk. This will be immediately obvious if the process of copying files from the disk to your hard drive fails. Make sure that the disk is clean and free from defects. Fingerprints and scratches could also cause lockups during installation. Use a soft dry cloth to wipe any smudges or fingerprints from the disk.

After you have cleaned the disk, attempt to install Spore once again. If it fails, you probably have a defective or damaged disk. If you have access to a second computer just to test the disk, try to install the game on the other PC. If the install fails on the second PC, or if you don’t have one available, then you should either exchange the disk at your local retailer or follow our warranty instructions which can be found at the following link.

http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easpore.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=8947

Roddy
Customer Support
Electronic Arts[/color]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39195.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39195.page GMT
Not that I've seen, no. And I'm giving them until the end of the week to either resolve the issue with a corrective patch or to provide official instructions on reverting my install to pre-patch status. If EA does not address and correct the issue, I'm never purchasing another EA product again, including Rock Band 2, any additional downloadable songs for Rock Band 1, and Need For Speed: Undercover.

Don't think I can do it?

I've not shopped at Walmart for over 3 years now because of an issue with one of their adverts that the store manager would not address. And I've yet to see Star Wars II because of a bet I made (it doesn't matter that the guy is dead now and can never pay up, it's the point of the matter).

(P.S. Anyone else notice the bad grammar in EA's response?)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39278.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39278.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39309.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39309.page GMT ppppppppppllllllllllllzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. I'll completely uninstall the game if I know that my access key will still work when I reinstall it and if the patch is gone.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39328.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39328.page GMT
This is different from a reboot (hopefully all of you know that)

That will rectify everything and have your game running smooth before the patch was installed.
This is not a guarantee!!

GRANTED.....
The patch itself after the system restore, is no longer installed.



Now for those who can't restore to a point before the patch install. I have no words but I'm sorry but can't figure out your situation now other than to uninstall and re-install.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39379.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39379.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39402.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39402.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39752.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39752.page GMT
- Horribly laggy, to the point where I usually have to tell it to do something twice.
- The cards in the top right will often not appear, or turn up later when I'm looking at a different nest
- Both of the above I could deal with, but now most of the other creatures have turned invisible!? My specific reason for playing today was to kick back and SEE some other creatures!

Any news on a patch for the patch? Or is there anything I can do to fix it? I tried restarting and that seemed to load up the creatures in my immediate area, but as soon as I wandered further afield they all vanished again! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39793.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/39793.page GMT
My Patch does the same thing. Stops at 0%
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40050.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40050.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40081.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40081.page GMT A) delete .package files
B) Restore my computer (how?)
C) Reinstall spore (if my product key still works)
D) Comit suicide (JK lolollolololol)

P.S. If no one has any advice for me, i will do them in order until it works but I still need to know more so...
I will start with 'A' tomorrow ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40142.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40142.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40227.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40227.page GMT but when i exited 4 the first time after downloading the patch, i can't start the game
when i click on it, it goes to a black screen as usual, but the it goes 2 desktop and says spore has found an error an needed 2 shut down

i have tried accessing the game from shortcut, start window and my computer]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40258.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40258.page GMT
I've all the same issues everyone else seems to have (invisible opponents, invisible loading screen stars, etc.) My favorite is by far the invisible opponents.

Anyhow, I have to concur with the crowd that if you want to throw your machine out the window, trashcan, or other suitable exit, simply uninstalling and reinstalling sans 'patch' is the only way to go. I'll take crashes over invisible opponents for now.

Remember kids: EOA always releases quality products well ahead of schedule, and never would harm the inner-workings of a brilliant software company! Anyone recall Ultima IX? <angry, bitter laugh> DIDN'T I LEARN FROM THAT!?

<looks around nervously>

Face it. All you jerks that are whining about problems after the patch are casualties of quantitative marketing and should stop your griping and do whatever it takes to assimilate to the masses, or just SPORE. Yes, that includes me. In fact, I'm rushing out to buy a [Brightly Glowing Computer of the Whale Glutton], John Riccitiello signature chrome plated WII with heated spore-wheel, and 100 pre-order copies of Sporewii, DSspore, Playsporetion 3, TI99-4aspore, and the Casio Databank version. Whatever it takes to help ole' Ricci out. Heck, buy a dedicated computer for every EA game you own. Whatever it takes to aid a starving company and if I can play a game without tearing my own face off in mercuric insanity, so much the better, and I'm the lucky one. It just makes good sense.

quantity > quality

We love you Maxis. Fight the power.





]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40293.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40293.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40336.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40336.page GMT
I have not read a single word about anyone who has tried updating their drivers after this patch came out, let alone anyone reporting the effects of updating your drivers


IF YOU HAVE AN OLDER RADEON CARD, PLEASE GO UPDATE YOUR DRIVER BEFORE YOU POST YOUR PROBLEMS HERE! PLEASE!
REPEAT: THERE WAS A SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE OF THIS PATCH AND ATI DRIVERS FOR SOME OLDER MODEL RADEON CARDS! go check it out.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40466.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40466.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40469.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40469.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40653.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40653.page GMT

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40747.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40747.page GMT
Missing creatures, missing animations (turning the transition from creature to tribe into a minute of watching my creature just stand there), crashes galore (after 1 hour of play, possibility of crash approaches 1), and jerky animation and rendering quality. All of this new with the patch, none of it noted in 40+ hours of play before the patch. Since the patch, I've maybe logged 5 hours. In one week. That's about forty minutes of trying per day before giving up on a game I have waited years to play.

Disappointed. Deeply, deeply disappointed.



Gritmonger]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40820.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40820.page GMT
Missing creatures, missing animations (turning the transition from creature to tribe into a minute of watching my creature just stand there), crashes galore (after 1 hour of play, possibility of crash approaches 1), and jerky animation and rendering quality. All of this new with the patch, none of it noted in 40+ hours of play before the patch. Since the patch, I've maybe logged 5 hours. In one week. That's about forty minutes of trying per day before giving up on a game I have waited years to play.

Disappointed. Deeply, deeply disappointed.

Gritmonger[/quote]

QFT!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40937.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/40937.page GMT 1. I cant see half the things like while fishing there are no baskets
2. when i attack a rival tribe in trible phase. My army goes there and just stands there.
3. in creature phase. when I attack it stands there after a while the attacked creature is dead but still standing. it does not fall and die it keeps staning when it is dead.
4. I am having to run the game from maxed out to mini specs just to see a little improvement in gamelay.
5. WHen i select the whole tribe to get them armed they sleep for like 30 sec before moving.

[b]Please tell me how to unpatch... I am unable to play the game at all[/b]]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41318.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41318.page GMT [size=18][b]Patch has killed my spore...[/b][/size]
1. I cant see half the things like while fishing there are no baskets
2. when i attack a rival tribe in trible phase. My army goes there and just stands there.
3. in creature phase. when I attack it stands there after a while the attacked creature is dead but still standing. it does not fall and die it keeps staning when it is dead.
4. I am having to run the game from maxed out to mini specs just to see a little improvement in gamelay.
5. WHen i select the whole tribe to get them armed they sleep for like 30 sec before moving.

[b]Please tell me how to unpatch... I am unable to play the game at all[/b]
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41333.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41333.page GMT
1. goto

http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easpore.cfg/php/enduser/home.php

2. on the left hand side click on "contact us"

3. use your spore login

4. select pc as your platform

5. spore as your game, then either spore or spore galactic edition in the drop down that appears to the right

6. for category choose technical and the update/patch in the drop down that appears to the right.


7. then describe your problem in the "question" textbox, and then I would attach your dxdiag and choose finish and save.

*for a dxdiag.txt its Start->Run then type in dxdiag, then choose "save all information" and the file created is the one you want to send them.

Barring them listing a more direct way to get issues into them this is probably the best and fastest way. Although asking a "question" doesnt make alot of sense semantically and neither does having the form under "contact us".

Having worked for several developers this is going to be the best way to get them truly focused on this problem; increase the open ticket count in their support department.


]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41339.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41339.page GMT Patch has killed my spore...
1. I cant see half the things like while fishing there are no baskets
2. when i attack a rival tribe in trible phase. My army goes there and just stands there.
3. in creature phase. when I attack it stands there after a while the attacked creature is dead but still standing. it does not fall and die it keeps staning when it is dead.
4. I am having to run the game from maxed out to mini specs just to see a little improvement in gamelay.
5. WHen i select the whole tribe to get them armed they sleep for like 30 sec before moving.

Please tell me how to unpatch... I am unable to play the game at all
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41346.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41346.page GMT Patch has killed my spore...
1. I cant see half the things like while fishing there are no baskets
2. when i attack a rival tribe in trible phase. My army goes there and just stands there.
3. in creature phase. when I attack it stands there after a while the attacked creature is dead but still standing. it does not fall and die it keeps staning when it is dead.
4. I am having to run the game from maxed out to mini specs just to see a little improvement in gamelay.
5. WHen i select the whole tribe to get them armed they sleep for like 30 sec before moving.

Please tell me how to unpatch... I am unable to play the game at all
[/quote]Only way I know for sure is to uninstall and then reinstall the game. When you start the game up and it asks if you wish to patch your game, click the "Later" button and play Spore in its release form. I've been playing Spore again that way and keep telling the updater "Later" dude, maybe when you got a patch that works. LOL!!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41394.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41394.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41423.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41423.page GMT
I suppose if anyone is not have problems, they are too busy having fun playing Spore with the new fixes and features, and won't be posting in the forums soon.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41472.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41472.page GMT
I think the patch is seriously broken. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but something is absolutely out of control in the patched version of the code. From searching online it's at least thousands of users with issues, maybe a lot more.

Let's get some statistics: Vote whether the patch is working for you in this poll:
http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/479289-107321
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41496.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41496.page GMT Sporemaster Kaliena Note: Content of this post and others referencing it has been removed due to inappropriate content.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41518.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41518.page GMT Sporemaster Kaliena Note: Content of this post and others referencing it has been removed due to inappropriate content. [/quote]

ehh... actually that's pretty sick, its just a game man lighten up ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41573.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41573.page GMT Yeah what he said.

Chill. Out.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41665.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41665.page GMT
After patching, both of my space-stage games would crash randomly within 5 minutes of starting, usually just flying from planet to planet. Upon entering a star's orbit, the planets would be invisible.

I deleted all of my saverd games, and started a new game from cell stage. Neither my cell graphic, nor any others, loaded until I opened a menu. In creature stage, I am now experiencing the invisible creatures, delayed animations - the full gamut of problems others have reported. I am afraid that should I get to the space stage with this creature, I will still encounter crashes every few minutes. I can't open and copy the mdmp files; My machine has no idea which program to use to open them, so I haven't posted an exception report in the "space-stage crashes" sticky. I am tempted to uninstall/reinstall, but would prefer to wait for some genuine response/instruction from EA/Maxis. I'm dissapointed that there has been NONE to date.

I am a VERY disappointed/frustrated consumer.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41963.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/41963.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42047.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42047.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42278.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42278.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42356.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42356.page GMT
That's kind of an observation/rhetorical question/ray of hope all smashed into one.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42433.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42433.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42458.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42458.page GMT
That's kind of an observation/rhetorical question/ray of hope all smashed into one.[/quote]


I unstickied it. The patch is now really the game itself and we are reorganizing the help section to make it easier to find specific topics. A thread with 30 pages is hard to find things in.

Specific issues will have a thread an will be link to in the master help thread.


]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42480.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42480.page GMT That it now ships as the official game?
So how about a new patch?
Or some fix? Or a little fish?
(or maybe a copy of The Sims 3? No?)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42499.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42499.page GMT i bought spore... can't play.

EVERY support answer was: re-install the game.
EVERY result of this action was: nothing.

thanks ea for taking 160chf and giving me crap. that was the last game i buy from you.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42536.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42536.page GMT
Missing creatures, missing animations (turning the transition from creature to tribe into a minute of watching my creature just stand there), crashes galore (after 1 hour of play, possibility of crash approaches 1), and jerky animation and rendering quality. All of this new with the patch, none of it noted in 40+ hours of play before the patch. Since the patch, I've maybe logged 5 hours. In one week. That's about forty minutes of trying per day before giving up on a game I have waited years to play.

Disappointed. Deeply, deeply disappointed.



Gritmonger[/quote]


I can't figure out why they havent addressed this yet?! I have tried all the fixes here and have not been able to install the patch, which is probably a good thing considering the problems people have after the installing. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42542.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42542.page GMT WTF?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42543.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42543.page GMT
Back in the day when I played World of Warcraft, if something like this happened, (and it did), at least someone from Blizzard mentioned something and it usually would be fixed soon afterwards.

What would really irritate me is if I see the Mac patch come out before they fix the PC patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42545.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42545.page GMT
Back in the day when I played World of Warcraft, if something like this happened, (and it did), at least someone from Blizzard mentioned something and it usually would be fixed soon afterwards.

What would really irritate me is if I see the Mac patch come out before they fix the PC patch.[/quote]

they just don't care about you. they got the money. point.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42550.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42550.page GMT they just don't care about you. they got the money. point.[/quote]

An acknowledgment of the problems the patch rose for many legitimate players would be appreciated.
Or at least something like "we know there is a problem, we are working on it, news as soon as possible".
The official silence begins to make the quoted sentence believable.

Edit: Silence has been broken, comment not valid anymore - Koban Empire goes back home with planet busters ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42809.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42809.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42813.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42813.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/4723.page]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42830.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42830.page GMT Massively dissapointed in the customer support witch seems nonexistant u wait a week then all they send u is the same outdated info thats on their support page how about hireing a few humans hmm, to answer ur emails instead of computer generated respnses..

Good game initially disappointed with the lack of support...
and ready to take my buisness elsewhere permanently

sorry for the bad spelling have a 6 mnth daughter to look after but felt i needed to rant lol ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42960.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42960.page GMT Massively dissapointed in the customer support witch seems nonexistant u wait a week then all they send u is the same outdated info thats on their support page how about hireing a few humans hmm, to answer ur emails instead of computer generated respnses..

Good game initially disappointed with the lack of support...
and ready to take my buisness elswhere permanently [/quote]

Did you reduce the lighting to low?
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42968.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42968.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42981.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42981.page GMT
Try setting everything to low including the audio.

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/0/4783.page#42991
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42993.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/42993.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43017.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43017.page GMT - The colors/textures on my creatures are showing up darkened in random spots on their bodies [so it looks like they have black or dark brown patches on them, when actually the creature might be light blue with green and yellow spots]
- I can't advance past the tribal stage without the game freezing during a cutscene only after I make my city hall

All in all I'm PO'd with this patch and wish I would've gone with my instinct to not install it at all. After having problem after problem with TS2 patches, you'd think I would have learned ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43257.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43257.page GMT
Everytime I try to play it keeps saying "Spore has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for this inconvenience." then it exits out to Windows... DX

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43334.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43334.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43698.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43698.page GMT umm...yeah]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43803.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43803.page GMT [IMG]http://i445.photobucket.com/albums/qq178/Irishman6/Sporeerror.jpg[/IMG]

Sorry for size...

I tried everything suggested on the first page of this thread. Sadly I'm in a rush and can't flip back through the other pages right now. I'm running 64 bit Vista Ultimate. Any help?...please D= ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43933.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43933.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43950.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43950.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43969.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43969.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43980.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/43980.page GMT
Same problem as this guy. I installed the patch, and now I have invisible creatures, sounds bugging out a lot of the time, and the game breaker for now is not being able to see what musical instruments the other tribes members want me to play. The little thought bubbles don't appear any more.

As the above gentleman says, all my problems have occured post patch. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/44275.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/44275.page GMT just want to play my game without it crashing! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/44642.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/44642.page GMT
Is there a patch for this patch yet?
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45353.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45353.page GMT
Where?

~J]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45426.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45426.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45477.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45477.page GMT

The patch is now really the game itself... []

[/quote]

Could you please explain and expand on this brief, cryptic and puzzling statement, especially in light of the problems encountered by paying customers who feel, perhaps rightly, that they've not had a sufficient explaination or feedback from those in a position to provide answers?

It's not an unreasonable request, surely? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45534.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45534.page GMT
The only "issue" was that my intermediary creatures didn't seem to save anywhere on my system (I only had the final cell design and the last creature design in my creations list).

Still, if dropping connection helps play the game with the new patch, I'd gladly abandon all my mid-game creature saves.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45587.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45587.page GMT
I decreased the in-game graphics cache to 512, then deleted the graphics cache file as per the Master Help Thread's instructions. Even threw in a gratuitous system restart for good measure. Still no improvement.

I'll just parrot what plenty of others have said: the patch has, for me, made the game unplayable.

Off to reinstall.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45738.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45738.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45750.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45750.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45766.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/45766.page GMT
[b]My problem[/b]: I have Win XP SP3. I downloaded the patch and when I run it, it just does nothing.

The first page of this thread talks about Vista and it doesn't apply for XP. If you can add the solution there or point out the answer a lot of us would be very grateful.

Thanks for the trouble.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46035.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46035.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46094.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46094.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46216.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46216.page GMT
I finally decided to trash one of my installs and uninstalled the game according to the instructions at the EA support site. I saved out my games and creatures so that I wouldn't lose my work and reinstalled, rebooted, crossed my fingers for luck and started the game up. The logo came up fine, the sound seemed to be OK so I started a new game. Everything seemed to be back to the way it was before I did the uninstall/reinstall. I pushed the graphics settings up to high and it still seemed to be OK.

I copied my saved games and creatures back into their folders, started up again and launched my last saved game. The first thing I noticed was that the creatures I had spent hours developing and growing into high level survivors had been replaced by some lame knuckle walking blue thing from the Maxis catalog that could fight its way out of a wet paper bag. And then guess what happened? I got killed by an invisible Epic!!!

I tried the spyglass trick but that didn't work. So I dropped the shadows and lighting to medium and I was able to see all of the creatures around me. So apparently the patch may have (This is just a guess on my part) corrupted my saved game and brought the invisible creature glitch into my freshly installed game.

So I dumped my saved game and started over. Good thing I like playing the tidepool and creature stages.

I hope that they get the next patch right and I am darn sure not going to rush into installing it for at least a week after it is released. For a game I was so looking forward to playing, I have spent a lot of time working just to get it to run. I know that this sort of thing happens all the time, I was just hoping that considering the amount of time that was spent on developing this game it would be less buggy.

I am running Windows XP SP2
nVidia GeForce 7300 GT with 512 MB video ram
2 GB of RAM,
AMD Duron 1.2 Ghz Cpu
Have hundreds of gigs of free space on my hard drives
ALS4000 sound card

All drivers are up to date.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46238.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46238.page GMT
The first issue is when I am trying to leave the cell stage and go to the land stage. The game crashes with the standard windows error "Spore has encountered and error and must close". All my progress is lost from the last time I saved. This happens about 2 out of 3 times I try to go from cell stage to land stage.

The few times I was fortunate enough to get to land stage I had a host of issues that made the game unplayable:
1) my creature was invisible half of the time
2) my starting nest was in the water. This caused the unique problem that I would get almost all the way to the land (up on the beach a few times) and a large predator would come out and eat my creature. I would then get a message about how going into deep water was a bad idea, and I was trying to get to land!
3) The water was green and the sky pink. I don't know if this is a standard variation in the game or not, but after starting a few games, this was the only time I had anything other than blue sky/water.

I ended up deleting that save and using another save when I was in the cell stage, but the aforementioned crashes when trying to go to land stage frustrated me enough that I quit playing Spore and went and played Mario Kart Wii.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46311.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46311.page GMT
Gameplay is more manageable. Invisible creatures [EDIT: and other objects that were turning invisible] are invisible for a much shorter time (I now know they're there BEFORE they kill me), and sounds/animations/whathaveyou were less lagged (I could hear the entire impress the creature exchange before it was well over.)

That is not to say that the problem has gone away. I have to save + end my game every 1-2 hours to manually delete the graphics cache package, or face the invisible epics of doom again.

I find it inexcusable, however, that I must lower my settings to this extent to play the game that I had running fine at maximum graphics (and sound) before the patch. So I hope that the suggested work-arounds are just that, a temporary means to get around what the patch broke (for some of us), while a fix is in the works.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46343.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46343.page GMT
But the sort of problems (animation-bugs, loooong load-times, etc.) seem to be there although the patch is not installed, at least its still playable.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46540.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46540.page GMT
Where is our solution? When are you going to understand that your customer service is absolute, horrible, crap?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46712.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/46712.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/47438.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/47438.page GMT
This shows that the build and patch software has not been coded properly. It SHOULD detect the version that is running and act accordingly. Porting games without thinking shows very limited understanding of the customer market!!!

I am NOT impressed if this is the best that you can do for MAC users.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/47947.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/47947.page GMT
It's rediculous. Furthermore, I saw today that you're being sued over the SecuROM. Good, I hope it costs you quite a bit of money. You're not putting any of it to good use, hiring worthwhile programmers anyway.


I don't know what else I can really say. It's simply inexcusable.


Patches, by the way, generally are released to fix problems. NOT create more. You have no excuses... many, many other companies manage to release games that are generally bug free, and I can guarantee they release patches again and again and again that DO NOT introduce new bugs, and actually FIX old ones.


I've waited a long time, speaking up on your company's behalf several times... "they'll get it sorted, all games have issues at release", etc etc. I was a naive fool.


I will not be purchasing any EA or Maxis titles again. EVER. I'll also make sure that everyone I know that is interested in gaming knows your horrible reputation and advise them against purchase of your products as well.


You have'nt even issued any acknowledgement of your crappy patch and the issues it's caused, and you've had plenty of time.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48255.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48255.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48759.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48759.page GMT
I guess they were just so gung-ho in fixing the initial problems people were complaining about and to add a few things to the game that someone somewhere pulled the plug on some important bit of program. So right now if they are doing what I think they are doing they are searching every single bit of the patch to see what went wrong, who did it and how to fix it. I would expect that we will have to wait about another week and a half before we get a patch for the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48824.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48824.page GMT
I am really shocked at this whole situation. I cannot remember a time that a patch made the game unplayable for so many people and I am going wayyyy back to my DOS/2400 Modem days. It is awesome to see so many people helping out to correct the issues people are having, they should consider sending EA/Maxis a bill for providing better technical support than their support center. Many missed opportunities for the companies to build confidence in the customer base.

Has anyone seen any kind of statement from Maxis/EA on this yet or any news on Re-Patch Ver 101? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48854.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48854.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48925.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48925.page GMT what can i do??]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48978.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48978.page GMT
You can be a little more specific about your problem.
Provide your system info and what exactly happens when you attempt to start the game.
Also check the Master Help Thread in the help forum to see if your problem has a solution there.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48982.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/48982.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49026.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49026.page GMT
It's rediculous. Furthermore, I saw today that you're being sued over the SecuROM. Good, I hope it costs you quite a bit of money. You're not putting any of it to good use, hiring worthwhile programmers anyway.


I don't know what else I can really say. It's simply inexcusable.


Patches, by the way, generally are released to fix problems. NOT create more. You have no excuses... many, many other companies manage to release games that are generally bug free, and I can guarantee they release patches again and again and again that DO NOT introduce new bugs, and actually FIX old ones.


I've waited a long time, speaking up on your company's behalf several times... "they'll get it sorted, all games have issues at release", etc etc. I was a naive fool.


I will not be purchasing any EA or Maxis titles again. EVER. I'll also make sure that everyone I know that is interested in gaming knows your horrible reputation and advise them against purchase of your products as well.


You have'nt even issued any acknowledgement of your crappy patch and the issues it's caused, and you've had plenty of time.[/quote]


I second that! Bunch of money-bent amateurs!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49074.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49074.page GMT I have the same issue on MAC - game seems to run OK when I ignore this and don't ask it to reload the patch (patch seems to have error on single file copy based on the log file, its a pity the patch is only available in connected mode otherwise I'd patch this file manually) - tonight I'll retry to install after fresh re load of Spore (hope saved games are the ones I have found under user/Preferences/SPORE Preferences/p_drive/User/Spore (seems to be nearly 1G in size so....)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49110.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49110.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49171.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49171.page GMT I bought Spore two days ago. Installed it, downloaded the patch, etc. I get to the part where it says "Patching Files" and has a progress bar. This seems to fill several times. Eventually (about half an hour later) it will get to 100% and stay there... and stay there... and stay there... and then I get an error message saying that it has been interrupted, my game has not been patched and please try again. I did this two more times with the same results. Finally I just said "whatever" and decided to play offline. This ran fine for me for a while. Then yesterday, after a couple hours of playing in the creature stage, I started having problems similar to those that everyone else seems to be having. First it was a few creatures being just base colors, not textured, then invisible creatures. I assumed it might have been my computer, which just meets the system requirements. But after reading this thread I am not so sure.
My computer has Windows XP. I have not tried reinstalling, since I don't want to use up one of my three installs, because I also have a laptop (Vista) that I would like to have Spore on some day when I can get Spore to work. I'm not really sure what is going on, but I hope this information helps.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49339.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49339.page GMT
You have'nt even issued any acknowledgement of your crappy patch and the issues it's caused, and you've had plenty of time.[/quote]


AGREE

But they don't give a SPORE, they got their money for the game, they are still busy patting themselves on the back for getting in released "on time".]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49428.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49428.page GMT
"Insufficient disk space - 1021381894 free bytes are needed to apply the patch"

The patch seems to unzip it self on my C drive and while i have 3 GB of free disk space i have no idea why it's giving me that error every time i run the patch, is there a solution for this?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49618.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49618.page GMT

Pretty much the sum of it for me too, sound delays and creatures not loading. I know with every patch something gets messed up (Been threw this with wow) but that gets fixed like a day or 2 later. Im hoping EA/Maxis get's this fixed sooner then later or im just goin to toss the game out. Whats the point of playing something when the sounds 30sec behind or you cant see anything. Its rly annoying.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49709.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/49709.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/50446.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/50446.page GMT
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Hi,

Thank you for writing to Electronic Arts accounts services.

Please be informed that your sound driver's are not updated these are some steps to update your sound driver's.

Common Sound Manufacturer Sites:

* Creative Labs
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/
* Yamaha LSI
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/us/support/downloads.html
* Realtek
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
* Sound MAX
http://forms.analog.com/Form_Pages/soundMAX/soundMAXtechSupport.html

Install and verify your new drivers.

Now that your drivers are installed, you’ll want to verify that the installation went properly. To verify that the driver has been installed, compare the date listed on the Display and Sound tab in the DirectX Diagnostic tool to the date listed on the driver website.

* If they match, your drivers are updated and your system is prepared to play.
* If they do not match, you will want to repeat the previous section until the date displays correctly.

If there is anything else we can help you with please let us know.

Thank you,
EA Rep Rafael
Player Relations EA.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/50507.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/50507.page GMT
I saw it come up when i first logged on. I downloaded the patch via spore, but I didn't install it (because of my computer permissions). Where can I find the patch?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51503.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51503.page GMT

[/quote]

I have the SAME problem!! I am so pissed! No response as of yet~~]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51520.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51520.page GMT [/quote]

That sounds like the PC patch. They must release a UNpatch. so that we can continue playing.

I really like spore. The customer service is just poor.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51980.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/51980.page GMT
unfortunately now that I'm installing the patch..

it's frozen at 100% and it doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon.. happened the first time I tried to patch as well, no error message, it just doesn't finish..]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/52363.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/52363.page GMT
It's very annoying, especially in tribe when almost every creature on the planet is a past form of the same creature, plus it's really clogging my sporepedia and making me not want to play]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/52590.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/52590.page GMT
I have had none of the various installing problems or sound glitches that others have, the problem I have is when I try to load the empire that I had played last before applying the patch the game crashes. It gets to the "You may encounter" Window but before loading anything up the game crashes to desktop.

My other empire loads fine and I can start a new empire but the one I want to access and play I can not! Anyone else had this? I have seen it on un-official spore forums but cant find reference on spore.com.

What is causing it and what can I do to rescue my empire!?

-Teknojo]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53627.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53627.page GMT

I am using a custom directory, because the original one went corrupt and I can't delete it.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53661.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53661.page GMT
Well they've known about the problems for a week now and it still hasn't been fixed. This will be the second weekend since I've bought the game, and the second weekend that the game will be unplayable. They better get the fix right after taking this long. Regardless I won't be buying another EA/Maxis game anytime soon.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53931.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/53931.page GMT
This has only happened since the patch. Any ideas? :/ I'm trying to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling because HOLY CRAP this game is huge.

If I have to I will, but I'd like to avoid it if possible.

Me.
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The game worked great until Patch Day, and since then it's been intermittently crashing, but nothing that made it wholly unplayable. I have a high-end six-month-old PC running Vista, and the very first time my machine crashed was hours after installing the patch. Followed soon by the BSoD.

It gets worse, though: with no changes to my system since installing the patch a week or so ago, I now can't even PLAY Spore. Whether I load the CD in the tray and it autoruns, or I click on the Spore icon to play, the screen goes black and I get a Windows error message saying "This program has stopped working. Windows is checking for a solution to the problem."

The game has become not only unplayable, but a complete non-starter in the literal sense.

I'm rather peeved.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/54953.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/54953.page GMT Hope this works for some of you as well a it did for me.

http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=20380]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/55437.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/55437.page GMT
I mean, lets face it, yeah the patch removes some of the more annoying things, but it's not a ground-breaking fix to the game. I see really no changes to the game without the patch. So, until the patch is fixed, I'll just keep ignoring the patch option at start-up.

It's no big deal. Best of luck, hope it gets fixed soon.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56212.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56212.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56326.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56326.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56916.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56916.page GMT
If not heres a more detailed description...I made my "ultimate critter" and got a max out award then I waited for a minute and my egg didn't hatch.So I went on a clicking frenzy,it still didn't hatch so I waited a while,then I went and watched a tv show.After 50 minutes it is still "developeing"

P.S. I've already used spores search engine to look for a fix.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56931.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/56931.page GMT

Ok, i´m currently playing without the Patch. I had to un- and reinstall Spore, because the Patch made my Spore almost unplayable...my System:

Sempron 3000+
Ati X1300 512 MB
1.5 GIG RAM
ADSL 6000
Onboard Sound AC97

...the Patch enhanced the AI and made the Game much better and harder to play...[b]but[/b]...as already said. It made my Spore unplayable. I had about 5x longer loading Times, when leaving Planets. I have serious Stuttering in almost any Phase but the Civilisation-Phase. I had graphical Glitches and other weird Texture Phenomenons and the Sporepedia totally refused to work. I make the EA-Downloadmanager responsible for most of the Problems, since it already made Problems with my Version of the Creature Creator. I can not play Spore with EA-Downloadmanager installed...if I install EA-Downloadmanager, Spore is just a [b]BUG[/b].

I hope booth of you, EA and Maxis agrees with me, that this has to end...who needs that EA Downloadmanager anyways ?

Now back to the Patch. I would be very pleased if you Guys from Maxis create Patches, that does not influence any of the Graphical Settings. Because downloading a Patch, that makes my Spore unplayable, really is no fun + it was unnecessary complicatet to install it...

1. had to install EA DL-Thing
2. downloading the Patch took about 1 Hour
3. installing the Patch took about another Hour
4. Spore was unplayable
5. had to un- and reinstall the whole Game (which took about another Hour)

...don´t get me wrong, I might be one of the biggest Spore-Fans around. But i´m not a huge Fan of Problems...

So please...next Time, Patch [b]without[/b] Tedchnichal and Graphical Changes... I don´t agree to buy a new PC just because of Spore.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57425.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57425.page GMT
Update: Just tried to submit a ticket but apparently that isn't working either...NICE.


]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57462.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57462.page GMT
Reading about all the problems the patch will create I think I don't mind it one bit that I'm unable to get it working. I'm getting the 'old file, same file, no changes made' error every time.

I'm just going to ignore te patch and wait for one that does work en doesn't make the game unplayable! ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57710.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/57710.page GMT [/quote]
That is exactly what happening to me! the really need to fix these things]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58020.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58020.page GMT [/quote]
it happened me too but just wait about 15-30 minutes it will get it downloaded. dont care when it freezes and jumps between 0% and 100% . with me it did freeze about 10 times and my screen did change its colour to whit few times but it still got it installed]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58251.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58251.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58345.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58345.page GMT

I am using a custom directory, because the original one went corrupt and I can't delete it.[/quote]

Can someone please respond to this? ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58349.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/58349.page GMT I just found this thread decided to continue ignoring it.

SO VERY SORRY FOR YOU ALL
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/59433.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/59433.page GMT
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You've obviously used the patch. You need to wipe spore completely off your computer. Uninstall it and then use a registry cleaner, but you will still need to find all the files that are on there. The most important to delete is in C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Application Data\SPORE. Try doing a search over the C drive if you don't have a registry cleaner.

Then reinstall in the normal directory and DON'T PATCH!

I have three games going now, two in creature stage and one in space stage and have only had one crash and that is when I was quitting the program. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60392.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60392.page GMT
Right now I can play up to the space stage with the patch.. but the space stage is now impossible even with a brand new game. planets don't render completely.. nor do alien life forms. So the quests become a nightmare.

The game crashes a lot on tribal now too. If it's not fixed in a month I might consider a wipe of my game and starting over but I will be advising people left and right not to bother with buying the game if they haven't already because of how hard it is to run. These are the sort of issues patches are supposed to fix.. not cause ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60487.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60487.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60559.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60559.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60589.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60589.page GMT
No, people that post in this thread in the help section are having patch problems, not everyone playing the game is having these issues.

If there were, there would be hundreds of pages long in this particular thread, and players like myself and my friends, would be unable to play the game. 3rd party game tracking data sites like Xfire, would have dramatic drops in playtimes. 3rd party fan-sites would be very active with people unable to play.

So no, the people posting here are definatly having issues, but not 100% of the population of those using the patch.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60876.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60876.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60898.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/60898.page GMT Now it seems to keep repeating itself from 0% to 100%, I assume its targeting files in single.
Ok great it worked just needed some patience, I should have tried this from the start

Althoe it did seem like patience is all it took i did right click and run as admin.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/61694.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/61694.page GMT
Just a quick update on the 'random computer rebooting bug' issue that I and some others here have mentioned that have been known to occur both pre and post patch.

I had to do a clean install of Windows over the weekend. (All the latest drivers...blah blah blah...)

Reinstalled SPORE without the EADM. Patched it with the .exe I dl separately, (I don't know where the saved game files are so lost all my 'progress' - read: never got past tribal so had to start again.)

The game was running fine for a few hours through Cell, Creature but not long into Tribal I had the same 'random computer rebooting issue' occur.

After that I came back to these forums and noticed that there was some concern that SecuRom can stuff your system up I then found a concise guide to deleting SecuRom off your computer. I followed this and was still able to play SPORE without it. However I still have the 'random computer rebooting bug' occurring. So this leads me back to my original conclusion that that root cause of this problem is something along the lines of what Omgwtfhax posted about here:

[url]http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/315/1000.page[/url]

I think I will send EA Support some of my specs/diagnostic reports on this in that hope that any extra info they get will help rectify this issue.

EDIT: I have not checked to see if SPORE somehow reinstalls SecuRom when you startup the game again...will have to wait til later to find out...]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/61823.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/61823.page GMT
Anyway, I'm another having sound and graphic problems that make my game totally unplayable. Just adding my name to the list of dissatisfied customers.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/63471.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/63471.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/6301.page has solved the invisible creature issue.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/63506.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/63506.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/66906.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/66906.page GMT
Patched, and great... except for one specie on every planet taking a reeeeally long time to load for the first time.

Loved the "colonies on galaxy" thingy... would seem obvious. But still, we cannot chart worm-holes if not in-sight or placing anysort of tag... So who knows what's obvious when beta-testing anymore...!?

After I started a new game... Wohoo! Finally I get to play with some of my CC, (OR NOT) made stuff!! You would have thought that was pretty obvious too! My game became all crashy and stompy... To the point now it freezes every three minutes or so.

My previous game also became corrupted, but days after... lots of saves in the middle, hundreds of in and out of atmosphere. Then is when "mostly" freezes, now.
Well it did... last "licensed machine" uninstaled... No use for it right now.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/68803.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/68803.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72150.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72150.page GMT
It seems the patcher doesn't like those that modified one or all of these three files:

ConfigManager.txt
Properties.txt
VideoCards.txt

etc etc.[/quote]

Had to log on especially to say thanks for enabling me to patch, you are a genius. Shame you don't work for Maxis.
]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72232.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72232.page GMT
[/quote]

I have this same problem. It's rather annoying. Everything seemed to work fine before the patch, now its fubar. I also have a crash when you attempt to start a new space stage. (Specifically when talking to the home colony and say "Yes. What's next?")

Any news about these issues getting fixed?]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72247.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72247.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72323.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/72323.page GMT
I downloaded the patch, and have tried several times to install the patch. It goes into the install wizard opens the .cab file, and starts patching files. After it patches (I think) five files, it freezes. This has happened several times, and most of the time, I have to hold the power button for five seconds and hard reboot my computer to get out of it.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/73014.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/73014.page GMT Somebody make a fixed patch.

It's been how long?

I mean, uninstalling and reinstalling without the patch works.
But jeeze. I had all of my friends and family start a game on different planets because they all wanted to see spore.
It was nifty having my mother's creature epic sized and destroying my tribe.

But pufft. The planets are gone :/
Creatures are still floating around for some reason.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/74215.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/74215.page GMT

Graphics seem better, but some rival creatures don't appear on screen, (but they can still attack you) cut scene movies dont display properly. One example is the "2001 Space Odyssey" gag. The Stick doesn't come back down and hit him on the head as before, music and sound cut out completely.

I was really looking forward to playing this game, but am starting to get annoyed that things just dont work. (Btw, my PC Specs fit the recommended levels)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75464.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75464.page GMT
Unprofessional BS! My friends who stole the game have NO PROBLEMS with the hacked patch. Long live Spore as the most pirated game in history!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75790.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75790.page GMT
the patch starts, but when the small screen, 'busy patching files' appears it just freezes and does nothing, I thought maybe it's just slow, so I let it there for a copple of minutes only to see nothing happen...

Uhm, it would be better not to release a patch instead of releasing something as bugged as this.

(maybe just make a rar file with the new versions of hte files so that we can just overwrite them in the game directory?)]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75954.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/75954.page GMT
-Patrick]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76275.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76275.page GMT
specs;

Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit (Service Pack 1)
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00GHz
XFX Geforce 9800 GT
2GB RAM

All my hardware/software is up to date with windows update.. I can't give solutions to the problem your having, but maybe you can check your computer is fully upto date (motherboard, GFX, Soundcard etc.)

Matoxic]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76398.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76398.page GMT
LAME

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76464.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/76464.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77000.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77000.page GMT NEW PATCH!!!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77234.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77234.page GMT
Thumbnails, thumbnails, thumbnails... *sighs* I know this isn't a HUGELY crucial issue compared to some of yours, but seriously, it is highly irritating.

Post-patch, the creature thumbnails on my Sporepedia are glitched. It looks they it stacked two of my creatures within in each other, so there are legs and heads and eyeballs coming out and weird angles.

Example:

Pre-patch Tofitek:
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-Prometheus09|2263283782%3Asast-500133729129

Post-patch Tofitek:
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-Prometheus09|2263283782%3Asast-500133769804


Anyone have any suggestions? While browsing others' profiles, I have noticed that I am not the only one with this problem. Either way, it's pretty absurd.

As for getting the patch not from EA... well, you can try it if you like, and it does work (that's where I got my patch). Here is a site where you can get the patch:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_32924.shtml

Also before anyone suggests this absurd idea, the patch I got ("unofficial" since I didn't use the awful EADM) is not the cause for the thumbnail error. People I know with the "official" patch also have the problem.



]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77332.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/77332.page GMT
NEW PATCH????]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/79056.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/79056.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/79330.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/79330.page GMT ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80621.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80621.page GMT NEW PATCH!!!

No...
WE WANT AN OFFICIAL GAME CRACK!!![/color][/b][/size]

]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80652.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80652.page GMT
Greetings Quick
THis is XP... not Vista




Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

I'm sorry that you’re having difficulties with the game.

Then try cleaning out your Temporary directory. Do not delete the folder
itself, open the folder, select all of the contents, and then delete them.

1. Double click on "My Computer"
2. Double click on the C: drive
3. Double click on the "Windows" folder.
4. Double click on the "Temp" folder.
5. Hold the "CTRL" key and tap the "A" key to select all.
6. Tap the "Delete" key on your keyboard and accept the "Are you sure you
want to delete these files" prompt.

You may get an error that some of these files can't be deleted. This is
usually because they are currently in use, so let's end any program that
would be using these temporary files.

1. Hold down the Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys at the same time
2. Click the "Processes" tab.
3. Click on the gray bar in the middle column that says User Name to sort by
user name.
4. Do NOT select anything for SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, or NETWORK SERVICE.
5. Click on anything besides EXPLORER and TASKMGR for this User Name or
other user names.
6. Click on END PROCESS
7. Repeat these steps until only explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe are open for
this user profile.

Note that some applications may take multiple times before closing. Don't
worry that you are permanently changing your system configuration; these
applications will return when you restart your system.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80729.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/80729.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/81987.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/81987.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/81995.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/81995.page GMT

Pretty much the sum of it for me too, sound delays and creatures not loading. I know with every patch something gets messed up (Been threw this with wow) but that gets fixed like a day or 2 later. Im hoping EA/Maxis get's this fixed sooner then later or im just goin to toss the game out. Whats the point of playing something when the sounds 30sec behind or you cant see anything. Its rly annoying.[/quote] it is the sam for me how do we fix it
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I have received this from EA, i whas already look strange at it but ok...

I am waiting for the next answer, because this didnt work...

..........]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82006.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82006.page GMT Well I was expecting EA to tell me that ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82055.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82055.page GMT
Thanks Spitt!

My thanks to Spitt for his help on solving the freeze up when trying to leave the home world. His suggestion to clean out the fountains, lamps and plants from the cities worked. He pointed out that the game was putting these items into the cities on its own. I found these items had been placed under the town hall building using up memory causing the glitch. In each of my home world town halls I found up to 100 of these items placed in one spot in the middle under the town hall! Yes that is 100! After removing these I have been able to free up the graphics and am again able to play ! I have hollow centered buildings so I was able to see that there was items under the town hall so for those of you having a similar problem you may have to remove the town hall to clean under it.

Spore maintenance persons please take note of this situation and patch the problem. ]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82437.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/82437.page GMT
so i havent been able to really install this patch. oh sure it downloaded fine, at least that's what it tells me. so i launch the wizard to install it then it does is thing perfectly and tells me to hit finish. ok normal right? spore restarts yadda yadda log back in.... there's a new patch available. would you like to download it? O-o again? is there really another patch? click ok instantly download is "finished"... then the proces repeated itself AGAIN and i realized it wasn't really installing the patch like it said it was. it keeps TELLING me everything installed fine and dandy but then it puts me into this horrible loop of "installing" the same one patch over... and over... and over...

now this would bother me less if my game didnt start to be buggy lately with the homeworld crashes and such so <_<;; i'd kind of like to get past this patch so i can get to any future patches =( i tried everything on the front page but it doesnt work. even after running it manually through that windows installer folder... it just gets deleted when it prompts me to restart (the installed files i mean). and if i dont restart it still keeps looping me through install anyway >_< its getting to be quite frustrating.

specs are:
windows vista ultimate 32-bit
processor: intel core2 duo CPU 9300 @2.5ghz
4gb ram
manufacturer:alienware


it is a laptop and i am aware that spore's been hating on some laptops and it started out that way for me too till i ran the game off the cd... or well now i started using an image of the cd because it loads faster o___oa dont know if that affects anything. i got the game as a bday present from a friend who ironically was QA-ing spore the fmvs just loaded slow so i made an image to make it go faster =X.

any (serious, non-crticizing) help would be appreciated =( i just want to go back to letting my cute Squick Commander fly around abusing the spice market so I can buy the blue spice planet off my buddy/ally race =( not to mention get my little newly evolved Angelings up into space as well. thanks!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86077.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86077.page GMT
Regardless....

WHY ARE MY CREATURES THUMBNAILS DISPLAYING SO TERRIBLY SINCE THE PATCH?!?!]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86106.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86106.page GMT
I'm another one of those people who have been having problems since the patch. My creatures have become [u]unresponsive[/u], from simply having a time delay between animations (such as hatching from an egg in creature stage; egg disappears, three seconds pass, then creature appears) to simply skipping whole animations by themselves (interacting between another species with a friendly stance, it often skips the singing or the dancing.) Other known problems is a VERY slow fighting movement, I would be able to charge someone and then have to wait about a minute before I could bite them, while they would be attacking me just fine. I have also had some problems in the space stage, but they were about the same as above except more adapted for the space stage. One example is that when I go to change my species clothing, the game needs about five minutes before it realizes I want to place something. [b]Before the patch, my game was running smoothly with no problems.[/b] When there is a solution to this problem, does anyone mind e-mailing me at [b]krimsonace@hotmail.com[/b]. Thanks, and before this rant is finished, I still have to commend EA on a great game. Good job!

-Ace]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86716.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/86716.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/89741.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/89741.page GMT
1. Hold down the Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys at the same time
2. Click the "Processes" tab.
3. Click on the gray bar in the middle column that says User Name to sort by
user name.
4. Do NOT select anything for SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, or NETWORK SERVICE.
5. Click on anything besides EXPLORER and TASKMGR for this User Name or
other user names.
6. Click on END PROCESS
7. Repeat these steps until only explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe are open for
this user profile.[/quote]
This won't help the game crashes due to the patch. What they're asking you to do is reduce the number of programs running on your computer via brute-force, potentially closing viruses, or a lot of crapware on your computer that starts up every time you boot up. This might help but only if you had issues BEFORE the patch as well, and if this were to help, this is a crappy way to do it.

If you really want to remove malware/crapware on your machine, on XP, download and install Windows Defender (google it, it's free from Microsoft) or on Vista load up Windows Defender from the Control Panel. Open it up and:
* Click Tools
* Click Software Explorer
* For each item you see in the Startup list you think is unnecessary, Disable it
* When you've disabled everything you suspect is unnecessary, restart your machine to see the results
* If there are things missing you preferred to have running (maybe you accidentally disabled your battery monitor and would like it back for example) open Windows Defender back up and Enable it again
* For everything else you're happy to have gone, Remove it.

Enjoy a cleaner, faster computer.

But this still WON'T fix the game itself, the patch is just plain broken.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/90071.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/90071.page GMT and also for people who have the start bug try running spore as a admininstrator]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99075.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99075.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99804.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99804.page GMT http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99808.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/99808.page GMT
I downloaded the patch, and have tried several times to install the patch. It goes into the install wizard opens the .cab file, and starts patching files. After it patches (I think) five files, it freezes. This has happened several times, and most of the time, I have to hold the power button for five seconds and hard reboot my computer to get out of it."[/quote]

i have the same problem except i can't figure out how to attempt to install this again.]]> http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/100930.page http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/preList/3173/100930.page GMT

Please use this thread for patch issues.
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/8903.page
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