trouble playing spore in mountain Lion
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, trouble playing games
No problem Marie, glad to be of help! Now i updated my Mountain Lion to Mavericks and it still works fine. Take care!
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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.
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I have now updated to Mavericks and Spore still works fine so I didn't need to do any further trics :)
Thanks for all of the info. I've been searching all over trying to solve this for my son. I can now install and get it to launch which wasn't possible before, but the screen has a lot of white lines on it, and after just a free minutes it freezes.
I've tried removing everything and reinstalling, rebooting with the combination of keys in between each update. I checked the file for the (1) in it. All is as suggested here. Before this it wouldn't even launch, so I've made some progress but I'm just not quite there yet. Do we just need to wait for Apple to come up with an update that will help with some of these games? I'm running on an iMac that was created sometime in about 2012 according to the system info. There's plenty of memory and disc space.
Thanks in advance.
It's not really an apple problem, it is more a problem with an old program that is no longer being supported by the manufacturer. I would say that if the solution here is not working then you may have to try to completely remove the program and reinstall according to the instructions here.
I'm on Yosemite reading this post in 2015 and it just helped me get the game working! Thanks!
trouble playing spore in mountain Lion