
Now then, you should hear your disk drive start buzzing, and pretty soon you'll probably getting a message telling you that you appear to be using an outdated graphics card, and that this may affect the performance of your game. Run it! (You can run it as an admin to be extra safe, but that shouldn't be necessary). You'll find an application called "SporeApp". But if you go to your SPORE folder (as described above), then select the folder named "Sporebin". Running this application should, somehow, make the game playable, but you still won't have a Spore icon to click and launch the game. Now then, run the application (SPORE(TM)_code). I have included a screenshot of what the tab should look like now. Here, press the "change settings for all users" button (requires admin access), and tick the boxes "run this program in compatability mode for", and "run this program as an administrator". Right click this application, then select "properties". In it, below a bunch of language file folders, you'll find an application named SPORE(TM)_code. Now, in your SPORE folder, you should have a folder titled "Support". For me, the path is: This PC -> Local Disk ( C: ) -> Program Files (x86) -> Electronic Arts -> SPORE If the game appears to have installed properly, you should now have the game files in a folder on your computer. I'm running Windows 10, so keep in mind that the solution may look different on a mac or earlier versions of windows. I'll try to recount the steps I took here. I have had the exact same problem recently, and I have just found a way to - sort of? - fix it.
