Spore..Won't install!

[frustatedmacman]

Yesterday my son bought Spore. He's been waiting for it for a while....
Anyways, we can not get the dang thing to install....
Insert the CD, wait for it to appear on the desktop, click on it, and the install window comes up. The graphics are distorted but the install icon is visible. After clicking on the install, nothing happens. We have tried numerous times. Ejecting the CD. Restarting the computer....Any suggestions!!!:confused::confused:

[kkat69]

Your system specs would help.

What machine are you trying to install it on?

[sined85]

I have it on my macbook and installation went nice without any problems, but runs very slow.
Did he got mac or pc version of the game?

[kkat69]

I have it on my macbook and installation went nice without any problems, but runs very slow.
Did he got mac or pc version of the game?

If he bought the store box it's a hybrid so doesn't matter. The real question is sys specs, if it's the GMA950 card then your SOL if you install on OS X (there's work arounds) else who knows until we get more info.

[cal6n]

If he bought the store box it's a hybrid so doesn't matter. The real question is sys specs, if it's the GMA950 card then your SOL if you install on OS X (there's work arounds) else who knows until we get more info.

Fail!

EA patched the game to run on the GMA950 under OS X.

[kkat69]

Fail!

EA patched the game to run on the GMA950 under OS X.

Oh please, link to official patch notes? Oh wait, allow me:


Features
* New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
* Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the 'i' key.
* New Cheat: "blocksmode". Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
* More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: "stylefilter -microscope" or "stylefilter -norainbows" or "stylefilter -nextgen" to see the new styles
* Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type

Graphics/Aesthetics
* Animation improvements
* Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
* Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning
* Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
* Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn’t pay
* Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous
* Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
* Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
* Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
* Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
* Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
* Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "Déjà Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should
* Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
* Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
* Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
* Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
* Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
* Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
* Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
* Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu


Now if they stealth fixed it YOU FAIL since it wasn't officially announced. I'll leave the OP in YOUR capable hands and waving goodbye to this thread. Good luck OP.

[mattydee87]

Oh please, link to official patch notes? Oh wait, allow me:



Now if they stealth fixed it YOU FAIL since it wasn't officially announced. I'll leave the OP in YOUR capable hands and waving goodbye to this thread. Good luck OP.

Well the guys in this (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=494236&page=3) thread also believe you can play it with the new update :)

[JNB]

It does work now on a GMA950 MacBook after the update, the performance is a hair less than in a BootCamped XP environment at equal settings. It did crash once transitioning from Spore to Creature stages.

kkat69's correct, though, in that there's no specific note of this from EA.

And "fail" is so 2007… :rolleyes:

[diver1891]

I am having the exact same problem and am very close to trying to return the game. I really do want it to work, so if you find a solution please post. Thanks!

[psykro]

I just bought Sprore. My MacBook is:

2.4 GHz
2 GB RAM
X3100
OS X 10.5.5

It continually freezes during the install at "file 82 out of 90". The progress bar keeps doing its flowing blue animation, but never does anything beyond that point. Has anyone else had this issue? Please help!

[Sheradon]

Seems i'm also getting the same issue.

running 10.4.11 2Gig of ram

Anyone has solution ?

[SnowLeopard2008]

It should work if you have the X3100 Intel card (like I do). Anything older than that is ... iffy.

[burdeazy]

Yesterday my son bought Spore. He's been waiting for it for a while....
Anyways, we can not get the dang thing to install....
Insert the CD, wait for it to appear on the desktop, click on it, and the install window comes up. The graphics are distorted but the install icon is visible. After clicking on the install, nothing happens. We have tried numerous times. Ejecting the CD. Restarting the computer....Any suggestions!!!:confused::confused:

I've had the exact same problem. I can't even open the install file.

I have a Macbook Pro with intel proc. and I'm running leopard. Any ideas?