I submitted a support request and an automated response stated, and I quote: "Due to the recent release and amazing popularity of Spore, we are experiencing higher than normal e-mail volume." I love how they turn ZOMG overwhelming support requests into ZOMG our game RULES! As a side note my computer is quite good, quite expensive and running XP without overclocking. The reason EA Games isn't stating there is a problem is because then we CAN post it here and less people purchase the game. All the crashes occurred when you are zooming in on a solar system and for those who don't know, that's basically all you do when you're trading, building an empire or protecting it. 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 15:37, 9 September 2008 (UTC) The space phase (the last phase you don't get to after several hours game play) frequently crashes, I've been playing the space phase for about 10 hours and had at least 20 crashes so far. the funny thing is, according to my system specs i shouldn't even be able to run the game, but so far i've only had it crash on that one part. and on the first planet my chieftain had been abducted midway through the tribal stage and i never got a new one, so i'm thinking that may be part of the problem (although i can't be sure) i guess i'll find out when i get a second planet through tribal stage. 209.169.244.29 ( talk) 21:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC) when i tried to move from tribal stage to civilization stage the game crashed, every time i tried to move on to the civ stage it just dumped me back out to the desktop, however i was able to start a game in civ phase on another planet and that planet is currently a space faring civilization and i have not had any problems with the game since. 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 13:03, 7 September 2008 (UTC) I picked up the game recently, so far i haven't had a few problems except for random frame rate jitters and I fixed that perfectly.I feel lucky.
oh yeah and there's this to: currently it only has 189 votes, but all but 17 of them are in favor of EA releasing a patch to fix the errors. i can't wait til US consumers get a chance to not play the game lol. an odd name 21:23, 6 September 2008 (UTC) yeah if you look at those forums now there's several pages of "game crashes randomly" and "game won't run". A stickypoll in those UK forums says that the problems are mainly in the Space stage. There were tears." I haven't read every Spore review out there, but I haven't yet seen a big-name reviewer dealing with a consistent crash either. It's not a huge issue in the early, briefer stages, but a random, one-off crash during the space stage cost us four hours of progress. I can't even think of a single bug", but IGN UK said "the total lack of an autosave is infuriating and bewildering in this kind of game. 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 13:03, 7 September 2008 (UTC) The GameSpot review says that the game "ran smoothly at the highest settings without a single crash", and the IGN (US) reviewer said "it ran smoothly on my admittedly high-end system, and it was rock-solid stable, never crashing. If Maxis makes a statement or reliable sources start writing about it then it can be included.- Crossmr ( talk) 13:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC) which is why i said "i guess we'll have to wait til a verifiable source mentions it". 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 12:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC) Forums are not reliable sources and cannot be used to cite material on wikipedia. i'd add something about it to the article, but the article is protected and i'm sure that my addition would get deleted for being "original research" or something. I guess we'll have to wait til a "verifiable source" mentions it, but if you look at the official british spore sub-forum on the EA forums it seems that the game has quite a few problems with crashing and looking for a non-existent driver. 4 "expanded Cell Editor an Beta Flora Editor".