Spore not being read plzzz help

Alex-no-fear · 31-10-2009, 12:48 PM

My system uses vista and is well upbove the requirments for the game.The disk is simply not being read, it trys to read the disk but will just not make any progress at all .Ive had a browse on the web and it sems other ppl are having problems too.I would really appreciate it if i could have some advice on how to solve this problem.If it helps my disk drive is a super writemaster DVD multi recorder speed plus.P.S-sorry for posting 2 of the same threads

Ashtaroph · 31-10-2009, 06:37 PM

2 possibilities here, 1 the disk is faulty, 2 the drive is faulty, if possible try it on another pc, you dont have to load the game on another pc just see if the load screen appears, if it does then its your drive, if it still doesnt then its a faulty disk.

Bojer · 04-11-2009, 01:35 AM

I have the exact same problem except i have tried 3 different disks and different computer all together .... NOTHING!!!! .... i still get the load up the step by step thru to install and when the bar for installing comes up you can see just by watching that its attempting to install the same files over and over its jus running a loop of say 20 to 30 files but no progression or freezing or anything no error message literally nothing it will happily sit and try an try!!!!! what the hell!!!!! i've even tried extracting the files off the disk to a folder on the desktop and running the setup.exe from there but nothing. Any ideas ..... would love to hear them !!! Thanks

Ashtaroph · 04-11-2009, 06:17 PM

try going offline, shut down your security software, including any additional antispyware apps that may run at startup, if your using vista shut down UAC, its possible that your install is being blocked, try running the install from the setup.exe in the folder that you created as administrator, (right click the .exe and click run as administrator)

31-10-2009, 12:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Alex-no-fear Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	Spore not being read plzzz help My system uses vista and is well upbove the requirments for the game.The disk is simply not being read, it trys to read the disk but will just not make any progress at all .Ive had a browse on the web and it sems other ppl are having problems too.I would really appreciate it if i could have some advice on how to solve this problem.If it helps my disk drive is a super writemaster DVD multi recorder speed plus.P.S-sorry for posting 2 of the same threads

04-11-2009, 01:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
Bojer Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	OK getting some annoyed with EA now!! I have the exact same problem except i have tried 3 different disks and different computer all together .... NOTHING!!!! .... i still get the load up the step by step thru to install and when the bar for installing comes up you can see just by watching that its attempting to install the same files over and over its jus running a loop of say 20 to 30 files but no progression or freezing or anything no error message literally nothing it will happily sit and try an try!!!!! what the hell!!!!! i've even tried extracting the files off the disk to a folder on the desktop and running the setup.exe from there but nothing. Any ideas ..... would love to hear them !!! Thanks

31-10-2009, 06:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ashtaroph Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Gloucestershire Age: 48 Gender: Male Posts: 195	2 possibilities here, 1 the disk is faulty, 2 the drive is faulty, if possible try it on another pc, you dont have to load the game on another pc just see if the load screen appears, if it does then its your drive, if it still doesnt then its a faulty disk.

04-11-2009, 06:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ashtaroph Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Gloucestershire Age: 48 Gender: Male Posts: 195	try going offline, shut down your security software, including any additional antispyware apps that may run at startup, if your using vista shut down UAC, its possible that your install is being blocked, try running the install from the setup.exe in the folder that you created as administrator, (right click the .exe and click run as administrator)