Spore black out

I have the same issue.

I'm trying Parallels but haven't got that to work yet.

I don't want to use bootcamp.

If anyone has a solution please post here.

When I started up Spore for Mac in Mountain Lion with all patches installed, the screen went white with horizontal lines flashing on it. No problems with audio.

I was able to resolve the problem by enabling "Use FBO for Backbuffer" in the Transgaming Cider preferences box. This is the box that goes away if you have disabled the "Display this on subsequent starts" option. I was not able to get it to come back on another account where I had disabled that option. Instead I had to go into the file "Library/Preferences/SPORE Preferences/config" with a text editor and change

"fbobackbuffer" = "0"

to

"fbobackbuffer" = "1"

After that everything worked fine.

Spore was tested and found to have problems in Mountain Lion

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Awesome Matt, that worked. My kids thank you.

Matt, you are excellent! This works! Using Mac 10.8.2 on a MacPro 2008.

Hi. I have the extact same issue but the "SPORE Preferences" folder does not exist on my computer. ANy solutions?

Oh nevermind! I got it to work. Turned out that there is another Library folder. I was just in the wrong one. Thanks VERY much!!

Thanks a lot mattw. I had the same problem as mlegge and the others here, but you saved my sons gameplay with SPORE tonight. It's now back up and running beautifully. 🙂

Where the heck is this preference file!? I can't find it anywhere (I am new to Macs, so maybe I'm not looking in the right spot). Can someone help me find this file? I was able to play the game once (but it took more than 15 minutes to load) and haven't been able to get it to work since (black screen but can see curser and hear game music). Help!

Matt thank you so much I was getting ready to buy another copy and you saved my money and my love in the game.

Thank you so much! This actually solved my issue on Snow Leopard 10.8.3 with a

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics card.

I am having the hardest time finding my library folder, let alone the other stuff, where do I go to find it?

Hey guys Matt's idea works great... However I have had the same problem afterwards where it asks to debug the problem..... If its not playing when you click on the spore icon then DO THE FOLLOWING.....

Click in the "GO" tab.

Go to "APPLICATIONS" then click on the "SPORE" folder.

Right click on spore and go to "SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS".

Now click on the "CONTENTS" folder.

Now click on the "MacOS" folder.

Now double click on the "cider_noui" folder and the game should start that way!!!

I'm having trouble finding this folder also. I was taking a look at the start-up sequence by starting it through the cider and noticed that there were a lot of null errors while searching for the dvd source. I got my copy of Spore through digital download. I was hoping that it might show me where it is writing the config for the game so I can find that file to edit it but... alas.

After uninstalling and reinstalling the game to get it to work, it played fine before I patched it (with the exception of being unable to alter my creature after it had evolved from the sea but that's a separate problem entirely). After I ran it and patched it up, it began to run horribly slow. It seemed like a serious frame-rate issue. I tried to follow the instructions of matt but I am unable to find the Spore Preferences/config file. I've looked in both Library folders and cannot find a Spore Preferences folder.

Please advise.