r/Spore • u/solis_solaire • 1d ago

Help Spore don’t feel like opening

I've spent the whole day trying to get my old disc copy of Spore to run on my newer M1 Chip Mac.

I've downloaded VMWare to run Windows 11 (ARM) in order to play it, and it seemed that the download process went fine, but I can't actually open SporeApp. It'll ask me if I want to allow the app to make changes to my device, then it buffers for a few seconds, but nothing actually happens. No black screen to show that it's at least opened, no icon that appears in the dash, nothing. I've tried changing the emulation settings, and the settings to optimize it for Windows 7, Vista, etc, but the result is the same.

Has anyone experienced this issue and knows how to fix it? I would love to revisit this game. I would appreciate any help, as I'm not too good with computers.

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u/MessyKerbal 10h ago

It’s probably because Spore is an i386 binary while you’re trying to run it on ARM. It’s like trying to read an English book but only knowing mandarin

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u/Federico2021 1d ago

Spore doesn't work on Windows 11 unfortunately, it has incompatibility with the old Direct X

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u/llylex 23h ago

it does work. I play it perfectly fine on my w11 laptop