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Spore 1.x



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NameSpore
Version1.x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.spore.com/
Votes 36
RatingGold
Wine Version1.1.33
Free Download Creature Creator Trial
Maintainers of this version:
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Description
Version 1.x
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Installing from the DVD

Every stage of gameplay

The creature, building, and vehicle editors

Patching up to patch #3 (requires a different no-cd than without patches)

Unofficial game mods (Betterspore, More Space)

Online content


What does not
Nothing


What was not tested
the Galactic Adventures expansion

patches 4, 5 and 5.1


Additional Comments

Works perfectly as long as you use a no-cd "crack", doesn't recognize the DVD once installed for some reason.
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 09 20101.1.33 Yes Yes Gold Matt Filyk 
ShowLinux Mint 7 "Gloria"Nov 20 20091.1.33 Yes Yes Gold Xendon 
ShowArch Linux (rolling release) x86_64Oct 30 20091.1.32 Yes Yes Platinum Max 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 15 20091.1.27 Yes Yes Gold Jonas Groth 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 10 20091.1.25 Yes Yes Gold John Spaetzel 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
14932 Spore Prototype CityMaze: Rendering issue UNCONFIRMED View
15205 Spore: "river"-like artifacts scaring the landscape NEW View
15349 Spore crashes when leaving water UNCONFIRMED View
15380 Games Only Showing Mouse NEW View
16305 Spore doesn't start because my graphic card is below min spec UNCONFIRMED View
18878 SPORE does not install UNCONFIRMED View
18948 Spore, Sims 3: Only sound and cursor, no graphics, with intel cards NEW View

 
HOWTO: Play Spore with minimal problems

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.
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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?

Many thanks in advance. ;-)

Byebye

Jan

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1.04 patch problems
by Rookrock on Wednesday July 15th 2009, 8:50
After nearly 3 weeks of working on it I got the dll override to work...which dll are you attempting to use?

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