The easiest way to play Spore without problems in Wine:
Make sure youre using wine version 1.1.26 or greater.
Start Spore using the -safe flag, e.g.
wine Sporebin/Sporebin.exe -safe
If you have problems: In the Settings menu, in Graphics, set the Lighting to the lowest possible quality. This is a useful workaround for almost all in-game crashes.
Also: Turning off shadows allows paint mode to work properly.
Enjoy.
If you experience problems:
Make sure the current working directory you run this from is the SPORE folder, not the Sporebin folder - it'll spin forever looking for the data folder otherwise.
Make sure you're passing the -safe flag.
If you are using PulseAudio: this is not officially supported by Wine, but some users have reported success using the ESD or OSS audio driver instead of the ALSA driver. This is configurable in winecfg. It is recommended that you do not use PulseAudio with Wine.
WARNING: Common pitfalls
If you experience graphical problems, please try to run your copy with the -safe flag, then file a bug with whether it works differently or not.
If you have problems with reaching the license server, please build from GIT or use this patch.
Experimenting with Offscreen Rendering mode (AKA: fbo vs backbuffer vs pbuffer)
If you're experiencing terrible performance, then playing with the OffscreenRendering key might be something you should try.
Go to the key in the registry (use regedit) - http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys lists the useful Wine registry keys, where they are, and how to edit them.
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No sufficiant system
by Jan-Hendrik Palic on Saturday December 19th 2009, 5:19
Hi there,
I installed Spore on Debian GNULinux (lenny) with 2.6.31 and recent
nvidia driver from Backports.org/unstable.
I installed the nocd crack as well.
starting Spore with -save flag gives me a windows, which says, that
the system requirement are not fit.
The system is running KDE 3.x with compiz from lenny and is an
AMD Sempron 2600+ with 1GB RAM and a NVidia 7600GT (largest graphic
board for AGP) and the wine version is 1.1.34.
I looked for some solution in the internet but I found only the system
requirement from EA, which says, that the computer is sufficiant to
play.
Any hints where I have to look at or any solutions for that problem?
