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grandwazir · 15-09-2008, 07:55 AM

Canyons appearing in the ground all over the planet

The chances are you also have an ATI card. If you force anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering on using the Cataylst Control Centre you might encounter these issues. The solution is easy. Turn them off. You can do this by either changing your graphics settings to "balanced" or doing it manually in the advanced settings and the problem will go away. Hopefully once Maxis and ATI decide whose problem it is, they will fix it.

Help! All the other tribes/empires look the same as me!

This happened on my first game. SPORE is very eager to show off your own creations to you and will prioritise them above all others. You can mitigate this by playing online and subscribing to some Sporecasts. I recommend ThrowerOfStones his stuff is awesome!

My game crashes regularly while in space mode, usually when visiting somewhere new

Make sure to delete your graphics cache as explained in the above post. You might find it helpful to reduce your texture detail as well. Moving from "high" to "medium" made an huge difference to my machine.

Eeeak! All my creatures have turned invisible. What do I do?

Tell them to stop licking yoghurt pot tops or was that transparency? You need to clear your graphics cache to fix that. You can find instructions for that in the post below.

Ye Gods! I don't speak Thai! How do I change the game to speak the Queen's English?

You can change the language the game uses by adding "-locale:<country-code>" to the game shortcut. For example if you wanted english you need to put "-locale:en-gb" You can do this by right clicking on the Spore shortcut and adding that in the command line shortcut box.

Spore supports the following flavours in the European Galactic edition. Your version might support others. You can see which ones it supports by finding where you installed SPORE and having a look in the /Data/Locale directory.

cs-cz
da-dk
de-de
el-gr
en-gb
en-us
es-es
fi-fo
fr-fr
hu-hu
it-it
nl-nl
no-no
pl-pl
bt-br
pt-pt
ru-ru
sv-se

You may also be able to find and download another locales that were not included with your game from the internet. It is worth mentioning though that doing so isn't supported by EA.

I can't seem to save in Space mode. What gives?

You can save in Space mode but only when you are actually in space. You can not save your game when you are on a planet - the option will just be greyed out.

15-09-2008, 07:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
grandwazir Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 70	Other fixes for rarer problems Canyons appearing in the ground all over the planet The chances are you also have an ATI card. If you force anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering on using the Cataylst Control Centre you might encounter these issues. The solution is easy. Turn them off. You can do this by either changing your graphics settings to "balanced" or doing it manually in the advanced settings and the problem will go away. Hopefully once Maxis and ATI decide whose problem it is, they will fix it. Help! All the other tribes/empires look the same as me! This happened on my first game. SPORE is very eager to show off your own creations to you and will prioritise them above all others. You can mitigate this by playing online and subscribing to some Sporecasts. I recommend ThrowerOfStones his stuff is awesome! My game crashes regularly while in space mode, usually when visiting somewhere new Make sure to delete your graphics cache as explained in the above post. You might find it helpful to reduce your texture detail as well. Moving from "high" to "medium" made an huge difference to my machine. Eeeak! All my creatures have turned invisible. What do I do? Tell them to stop licking yoghurt pot tops or was that transparency? You need to clear your graphics cache to fix that. You can find instructions for that in the post below. Ye Gods! I don't speak Thai! How do I change the game to speak the Queen's English? You can change the language the game uses by adding "-locale:<country-code>" to the game shortcut. For example if you wanted english you need to put "-locale:en-gb" You can do this by right clicking on the Spore shortcut and adding that in the command line shortcut box. Spore supports the following flavours in the European Galactic edition. Your version might support others. You can see which ones it supports by finding where you installed SPORE and having a look in the /Data/Locale directory. cs-cz da-dk de-de el-gr en-gb en-us es-es fi-fo fr-fr hu-hu it-it nl-nl no-no pl-pl bt-br pt-pt ru-ru sv-se You may also be able to find and download another locales that were not included with your game from the internet. It is worth mentioning though that doing so isn't supported by EA. I can't seem to save in Space mode. What gives? You can save in Space mode but only when you are actually in space. You can not save your game when you are on a planet - the option will just be greyed out. Last edited by grandwazir; 21-09-2008 at 04:52 PM.. Reason: added another solution.