Spore

Check out my Spore Creations – Spore Widget – Video Game

September 18th, 2008

If anyone wants to check out my Spore Creations, here’s my Spore Widget that shows off all my guys. Hope you enjoy my weird Spore Freaks.

I found the Sporelution!!! – Video Game Help

September 18th, 2008

After much searching and many unsuccessful attempts to try and contact EA I have found the solution that makes Spore work on Vista!!! Before I give the solution, let me describe the problem I encountered so anyone having this issue can see that this solution will work for them to. I was able to download Spore, however, when the download was completed I only received a message to open the Read Me file and finish the download. There was no desktop icon and the icon wasn’t in the Programs in the start menu. So I did a few searches and found a possible solution that someone used when Spore Creature Creator wasn’t working. What you do is go to the C Drive, Program Files, Electronic Arts, Spore, Sporebin and in the Sporebin folder you will see an application called SporeApp. Right click on SporeApp and click Create Shortcut. Doing this creates a shortcut on your Desktop and presto change-o all of the sudden Spore works. It’s a miracle!!! Ha! Maybe Spore.com should include these instructions on their website and make it easier to contact them. What an aggravating process, their toll-free number sucks, it’s all automated…..their online help desk sucks too, there are no good suggestions…..and my question that I submitted is still unresolved. Oh well, even though their support sucks at least someone posted the solution on the web. So hopefully I can pass on the information to some other frustrated individual. Now it’s time to Spore!!!

Oh the woes of Spore – Video Game Issues

September 15th, 2008

So I finally sat down to install Spore today which included EA Download Manager and when I go to run the game nothing….NOTHING!!! I uninstall and reinstall the game and try to run it and again, NOTHING….ugh! So I restart my computer and again try to run the game….NOTHING. At this point I’m beyond annoyed and decide to Google the issue and see that various people are having issues running Spore Creature Creature with Vista and that EA Download Manager is the culprit behind the problems. So I uninstall EA Download Manager, restart my computer and (while keeping my fingers crossed) try Spore again…..and nothing…..so right now as I’m typing this, I’m trying to install the game on my other laptop which is Windows XP…..we’ll see if that works…..and it does… :\ which is completely bittersweet…..I wanted to play it on my Vaio. So I’m asking for help….anyone that was able to get Spore to work on Vista, how did you do it???