EA: Do something about it. - Page 3

Slaygen · 06-09-2008, 07:43 PM

/signed

Crashing, on homeplanet while zooming out from planet to galaxy view.
A blue space monster attacking one of my cities, and keeps returning after I killed it.

Nvidia 8800GT, 512 Mb
Quad core 6600, 4x 2,4GHz CPu, Intel
2GB internal mem
1,5 TB Harddisk space.
Wndows Vista
DirectX 10

nc4bz6 · 06-09-2008, 07:45 PM

/singed

wont start up i found sporeapp loaded and screen saying i need to close other apps or try rebooting no other apps open and i've tried rebooting already.

Rykaan · 06-09-2008, 07:45 PM

/sign

This is the most buggy game i have ever bought. A little list for you:

Having to redo textures over and over because the creature is shown untextured.

Half of each planet is missing in a sea of blackness.

Loading a gamesave causes me to be dropped in the middle of the ocean or slightly underground (causing creatures to judder constantly) or with no trees etc.

Hitting the tribal stage the planet either isn't textured and you can see straight through it or the camera is so high up i cannot see my creatures due to the mapping of mountains or some such. Also soon as i hit this phase the animation on the creatures freeze and i cannot continue, all I am able to do is click some UI elements which do not respond and quit from the 'esc' menu.

This is a serious disapointment, i was plowing through the glitches until this point hopeing it might improve but this is terrible.

My computer specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz
2.00GB of Ram
2x ATI Radeon HD 3800 series

Running windows Xp Media center edition

I'm probably going to install it onto a different computer and see how it fairs on that.

Settol · 06-09-2008, 07:53 PM

lalala, bought the game today, unable to get past tribal screen. Just locks up!

FIX IT! or else it goes back to store!

BulletSponge78 · 06-09-2008, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maelstrome

So can your bro run the game perfectly? It may be the CC causing the problem, as I've had that installed too. Maybe the uninstaller doesn't delete EVERYTHING. (it hasn't because I've still got my creatures in there.)

Has everyone had CC installed previously?

Yep, runs perfectly for him with no aggro, disc in, install, double click, lots of fun for him lol

Tell · 06-09-2008, 07:57 PM

/Signed

This is an absolute joke. Not even a statement from EA/Maxis, nothing.

N1ghty2 · 06-09-2008, 07:59 PM

Signed 100 times!! I love the game but cant play it..

It could easily be my fave game...

Maelstrome · 06-09-2008, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rykaan

/sign

Having to redo textures over and over because the creature is shown untextured.

Half of each planet is missing in a sea of blackness.

Loading a gamesave causes me to be dropped in the middle of the ocean or slightly underground (causing creatures to judder constantly) or with no trees etc.

Hitting the tribal stage the planet either isn't textured and you can see straight through it or the camera is so high up i cannot see my creatures due to the mapping of mountains or some such.

Wow, that is really bad! That must be the worst case ive heard of yet... ouch!

Im only getting the homeworld / planet zoom bug... but by god thats just insane! Shows how much EA hasn't tested this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BulletSponge78

Yep, runs perfectly for him with no aggro, disc in, install, double click, lots of fun for him lol

That may be the cause then. Could someone install it on a spare machine without SPORE CC on and see if it works? As the non existant .dll it tries to find is no-where on the comptuers, and also SPORE CC had major problems with that .dll.

Lets see if its the little brother (Spawn... get it? haha) that's causing the problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tell

/Signed

This is an absolute joke. Not even a statement from EA/Maxis, nothing.

Well hopefully we shall get one soon.

Assassin Rex · 06-09-2008, 08:27 PM

I cannot validate my cd key and play online
Sometimes in space my game crashes where the whole screen flashes and everything freezes.
One my hologram in space wouldn't beam back up (scared to use it again)
/signed
Vista 64 specs below in my sig

NeWx · 06-09-2008, 08:28 PM

/signed

Here is 3 things I discovered.

1. I am sometimes unable to press the communication button right after the mission where you scan the ruins in the space stage. (The button that let's you talk to the aliens on your planet) and therefor I get stuck in the game and can't continue, unless I start over from a saved game.

2. Sometimes (very often) when I drag creature's into the creature editor in the full game from sporepedia in internet explorer, the creature's wings gets bugged and rotated the wrong way. It always seems to be the wings that gets rotated wrongly,
This never happened in the old creature creator.

3. I have also discovered that all my creations that I uploaded to sporepedia does not show up in the search, when I try to find them.
Only the things that I uploaded before with the old creature creator can be found with the search. I can only see all my new creations wich I made with the full game on my spore page.

The 3th one might just be site issues, I don't know, I just wanted to report that anyway. ^^

Am using windows vista 64bit.
My graphic card is nvidia geforce 8800 ultra.

Also with this patch they should add anti-aliasing and higher resolutions, because I can still only go to 1280 x 1024, even that my computer should be able to go to 1600 x 1200.

Maelstrome · 06-09-2008, 08:28 PM

1011 views, people must be paying attention!

Assassin Rex: Yep those bugs are listen. Thats exactly what im getting, apart from the CD key.

Edit: Added a new bug - Blackness in galaxy

Codii · 06-09-2008, 08:36 PM

/signed /bought /fixit /COLUMBINE

LlamaLiam · 06-09-2008, 08:37 PM

/signed, the damn tribal outfit crash so dissapointed

Tell · 06-09-2008, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maelstrome

1011 views, people must be paying attention!

1000 is probably around 0.5% of the users that downloaded spore in the past 24hrs alone. Over 33,000 are downloading the cracked copy from an isohunt torrent tracker. I envy them, at least they only get to deal with being dissapointed, and not pay £35 for the honour.

0.5% just isn't enough to make the people in EA care. It'd need to be closer to 30-40% to get any immediate reaction from EA/Maxis.

Maelstrome · 06-09-2008, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tell

1000 is probably around 0.5% of the users that downloaded spore in the past 24hrs alone. Over 33,000 are downloading the cracked copy from an isohunt torrent tracker. I envy them, at least they only get to deal with being dissapointed, and not pay £35 for the honour.

0.5% just isn't enough to make the people in EA care. It'd need to be closer to 30-40% to get any immediate reaction from EA/Maxis.

Very true, so spread the word!

Also, if anyone contacts a EA member, let them know of this thread so they can see the anger within us all.

LlamaLiam · 06-09-2008, 08:43 PM

I think its ridiculous, someone must know, and these errors seem to be aplenty, how they were not detected during testing is beyond me.

Tell · 06-09-2008, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maelstrome

Very true, so spread the word!

Also, if anyone contacts a EA member, let them know of this thread so they can see the anger within us all.

Posting the active torrent link so users can test if it's possible to play before shelling out cash for it would be a swift way to get EA's attention

Cthulhuian · 06-09-2008, 08:53 PM

Maelstrome,

Good list, but I didn't think any laptop cards were officially supported.

Bad problems, but some can be fixed by setting up a computer properly. Spore is pretty fussy.

You don't seem to include the daftest, commonest problem I've come across, which couldn't be fixed with a patch but is easily solved, that of the installer not creating an icon so that you can actually start the game. :-)

Maelstrome · 06-09-2008, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cthulhuian

Maelstrome,

Good list, but I didn't think any laptop cards were officially supported.

Bad problems, but some can be fixed by setting up a computer properly. Spore is pretty fussy.

You don't seem to include the daftest, commonest problem I've come across, which couldn't be fixed with a patch but is easily solved, that of the installer not creating an icon so that you can actually start the game. :-)

Well i just hope people realise its in the Vista Games folder >.<

Yeah, I know that games are sometimes a pain to get set up propperly, but I've made sure that these the ones ive listen aren't due to user error, it sounds like either hardware or SPORE itself being naughty

Whitey2801 · 06-09-2008, 08:57 PM

signed!

timmsi · 06-09-2008, 09:02 PM

Still cant believe EA havnt done anything yet

Maelstrome · 06-09-2008, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timmsi

Still cant believe EA havnt done anything yet

They probably won't until monday, it is the weekend.

But by hell, when the americans get it, they'll be getting their 'bum' kicked by an almighty iron boot with iron Toe Caps!

Zoston · 06-09-2008, 09:08 PM

I have the bug from this thread Crashing when moving from planet to galaxy

so absolutely /signed this needs to be fixed and fast! paying customers are suffering here!

timmsi · 06-09-2008, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zoston

I have the bug from this thread Crashing when moving from planet to galaxy

so absolutely /signed this needs to be fixed and fast! paying customers are suffering here!

always the way ^^

Odin-51689 · 06-09-2008, 09:23 PM

Hi guys!

/signed, /signed, /signed!!!!!!!!!

Got the dll not found bug, with the black screen... Spore had runned two, three times, and then stopped to work. Uninstalled spore, uninstalled EADM. Reinstalled SCC_trial, launched it, worked, uninstalled it, allowing it deleting my greaaaaat creatures,
reinstalled spore, without anything, and it worked. Then I ran into another bug when i tried to save my game in tribal stage, with game saying "can't save, spore will close, trying to go bac one savegame, but... I restarted the game, i didn't have any planet i can play from the galaxy screen... :/ Nothing. Tried some times to play and ran again into the dll not found bug, black screen on launch and so on. Uninstalled spore (again), reinstalled Creature creatore, ran it without any problems, reinstalled spore, and same bug :/ Paid my game, i want to play it!!!! ^^"

So : /signed, /signed, /signed!!!!!!!!! EA do something about that.... I have a great flamethrower at home

(Sorry for my bad english, but i'm french ^^ )

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06-09-2008, 07:45 PM	#53 (permalink)
Rykaan Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1	textures/collisions/game saves/freezes /sign This is the most buggy game i have ever bought. A little list for you: Having to redo textures over and over because the creature is shown untextured. Half of each planet is missing in a sea of blackness. Loading a gamesave causes me to be dropped in the middle of the ocean or slightly underground (causing creatures to judder constantly) or with no trees etc. Hitting the tribal stage the planet either isn't textured and you can see straight through it or the camera is so high up i cannot see my creatures due to the mapping of mountains or some such. Also soon as i hit this phase the animation on the creatures freeze and i cannot continue, all I am able to do is click some UI elements which do not respond and quit from the 'esc' menu. This is a serious disapointment, i was plowing through the glitches until this point hopeing it might improve but this is terrible. My computer specs are: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz 2.00GB of Ram 2x ATI Radeon HD 3800 series Running windows Xp Media center edition I'm probably going to install it onto a different computer and see how it fairs on that.

06-09-2008, 07:53 PM	#54 (permalink)
Settol Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4	Lock Up! lalala, bought the game today, unable to get past tribal screen. Just locks up! FIX IT! or else it goes back to store!

06-09-2008, 07:59 PM	#57 (permalink)
N1ghty2 Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 9	Signed Signed 100 times!! I love the game but cant play it.. It could easily be my fave game...

06-09-2008, 08:27 PM	#59 (permalink)
Assassin Rex Rookie Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: UK Posts: 39	I cannot validate my cd key and play online Sometimes in space my game crashes where the whole screen flashes and everything freezes. One my hologram in space wouldn't beam back up (scared to use it again) /signed Vista 64 specs below in my sig __________________ QX6700 4GBDDR3@1333 ASUS 680 SLi 2x8800 GTX... 1x500GB 1x320GB. Bring any PC game on...

06-09-2008, 07:43 PM	#51 (permalink)
Slaygen Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 21	/signed Crashing, on homeplanet while zooming out from planet to galaxy view. A blue space monster attacking one of my cities, and keeps returning after I killed it. Nvidia 8800GT, 512 Mb Quad core 6600, 4x 2,4GHz CPu, Intel 2GB internal mem 1,5 TB Harddisk space. Wndows Vista DirectX 10

06-09-2008, 07:45 PM	#52 (permalink)
nc4bz6 Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1	/singed wont start up i found sporeapp loaded and screen saying i need to close other apps or try rebooting no other apps open and i've tried rebooting already.

06-09-2008, 07:57 PM	#56 (permalink)
Tell Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 39	/Signed This is an absolute joke. Not even a statement from EA/Maxis, nothing.

06-09-2008, 08:28 PM	#60 (permalink)
NeWx Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1	/signed Here is 3 things I discovered. 1. I am sometimes unable to press the communication button right after the mission where you scan the ruins in the space stage. (The button that let's you talk to the aliens on your planet) and therefor I get stuck in the game and can't continue, unless I start over from a saved game. 2. Sometimes (very often) when I drag creature's into the creature editor in the full game from sporepedia in internet explorer, the creature's wings gets bugged and rotated the wrong way. It always seems to be the wings that gets rotated wrongly, This never happened in the old creature creator. 3. I have also discovered that all my creations that I uploaded to sporepedia does not show up in the search, when I try to find them. Only the things that I uploaded before with the old creature creator can be found with the search. I can only see all my new creations wich I made with the full game on my spore page. The 3th one might just be site issues, I don't know, I just wanted to report that anyway. ^^ Am using windows vista 64bit. My graphic card is nvidia geforce 8800 ultra. Also with this patch they should add anti-aliasing and higher resolutions, because I can still only go to 1280 x 1024, even that my computer should be able to go to 1600 x 1200.

06-09-2008, 08:28 PM	#61 (permalink)
Maelstrome Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Posts: 210	1011 views, people must be paying attention! Assassin Rex: Yep those bugs are listen. Thats exactly what im getting, apart from the CD key. Edit: Added a new bug - Blackness in galaxy __________________ Bugs annoying you? Make sure your voice is heard! Current List Of Active Petitions Last edited by Maelstrome; 06-09-2008 at 08:33 PM.. Reason: Added a bug

06-09-2008, 08:36 PM	#62 (permalink)
Codii Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 11	/signed /bought /fixit /COLUMBINE

06-09-2008, 08:37 PM	#63 (permalink)
LlamaLiam Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2	/signed, the damn tribal outfit crash so dissapointed

06-09-2008, 08:43 PM	#66 (permalink)
LlamaLiam Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2	I think its ridiculous, someone must know, and these errors seem to be aplenty, how they were not detected during testing is beyond me.

06-09-2008, 08:53 PM	#68 (permalink)
Cthulhuian Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 77	Maelstrome, Good list, but I didn't think any laptop cards were officially supported. Bad problems, but some can be fixed by setting up a computer properly. Spore is pretty fussy. You don't seem to include the daftest, commonest problem I've come across, which couldn't be fixed with a patch but is easily solved, that of the installer not creating an icon so that you can actually start the game. :-) __________________

06-09-2008, 08:57 PM	#70 (permalink)
Whitey2801 Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5	signed!

06-09-2008, 09:02 PM	#71 (permalink)
timmsi Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 36	Still cant believe EA havnt done anything yet

06-09-2008, 09:08 PM	#73 (permalink)
Zoston Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 5	I have the bug from this thread Crashing when moving from planet to galaxy so absolutely /signed this needs to be fixed and fast! paying customers are suffering here!

06-09-2008, 09:23 PM	#75 (permalink)
Odin-51689 Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4	Hi guys! /signed, /signed, /signed!!!!!!!!! Got the dll not found bug, with the black screen... Spore had runned two, three times, and then stopped to work. Uninstalled spore, uninstalled EADM. Reinstalled SCC_trial, launched it, worked, uninstalled it, allowing it deleting my greaaaaat creatures, reinstalled spore, without anything, and it worked. Then I ran into another bug when i tried to save my game in tribal stage, with game saying "can't save, spore will close, trying to go bac one savegame, but... I restarted the game, i didn't have any planet i can play from the galaxy screen... :/ Nothing. Tried some times to play and ran again into the dll not found bug, black screen on launch and so on. Uninstalled spore (again), reinstalled Creature creatore, ran it without any problems, reinstalled spore, and same bug :/ Paid my game, i want to play it!!!! ^^" So : /signed, /signed, /signed!!!!!!!!! EA do something about that.... I have a great flamethrower at home (Sorry for my bad english, but i'm french ^^ )