System Requirements:


FOR WINDOWS XP

2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
512 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
768 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

When launching the game, some Microsoft Vista users may receive a warning about running out of address space along with a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base. If you see this message, it is recommended that you follow the instructions and go to the website listed in the message to update your system.

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:

* Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above.
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent.
* 768 MB RAM

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon(TM) series
* 9500, 9600, 9800 * X300, X600, X700, X800, X850 * X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950 * 2400, 2600, 2900 * 3650, 3850

NVIDIA GeForce series
* FX 5900, FX 5950 * 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800 * 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950 * 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics
* GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts, such as the 945GU, GML, and GMS, will not perform adequately.

Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Spore requires at least the following:

Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
Intel Core Duo Processor
1024 MB RAM
ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.
This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:

Intel Integrated Chipset GMA X3100
Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon(TM) series
* X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600

NVIDIA GeForce series
* 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics
* GMA X3100

This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.


This website allows you to compare your computer against the system requirements. Its a bit dodgy, but it will give you a good idea:

www.systemrequirementslab.com

6GB! :eek:
..........

The terror of bloat. I am sure they didn't need that room, but with rapidly growning HD's they don't have to bother squeezing stuff down.

It also ensure the market for large HD's continue's to grow (I remeber when I considered 10GB's to be a large, unfillable space!)

Bloat? Are you kiddin' me? Sure the HHD is kind of big but 512MB RAM?!? That's absolutely phenomenal for a modern game! I haven't see 512MB as a requirement since 2004!

What? You mean your used to 1GB ram being the requirement?

The terror of bloat. I am sure they didn't need that room, but with rapidly growning HD's they don't have to bother squeezing stuff down.

It also ensure the market for large HD's continue's to grow (I remeber when I considered 10GB's to be a large, unfillable space!)
Dont mention that to MobBoss, or he will give you an earfull about how Spore is not Bloatware and starts spouting Ad Homenems at ya :rolleyes:.

What? You mean your used to 1GB ram being the requirement?

Unless you're still playing Sims and Counter Strike.

Besides it could have been a lot worse!

Morrowind, Civ3 and the Sims actually ;)

I'd be amazed if it worked on a 32 MB video card. You mean 6 MB hard drive space, no? Not 6 GB hard drive space. Or else this thing really is the game of Life in bits and bytes.


EDIT: Yawn I should have gone to bed before I posted this.

FOR WINDOWS XP

2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
512 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+, is that OK? (I thought the 3000+ meant "similar to a Pentium 3.0 GHz", but I'm not sure)

I honestly don't know the comparissions

Try downloading the Creature Creator (free) and if your computer can run that...

According to this, an AMD at about 3000 would pass by 1 ghz.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html

AMD XP 3000 ~ AMD Athlon 64 3000 ~ Intel 3.0ghz

Those are very mild system specs but remember that spore has been in development a long time.

Edit: except the HDD space.

Those specs seem very reasonable.

I'm not sure why people are worrying about the HDD space, 6GB is not much these days. As a comparison (taking a random selection of games), my Mass Effect install is 10.2GB :), Oblivion (over 2 years old) is 9.8 GB (although that dose include the expansion and a (large) number of mods), NWN2 is 8.8 GB (+ expansion) and The Witcher 8 GB.

Man, I better delete some games I don't play.

I checked with the System Requirements site, and my computer is almost near the end of "Fastest"... Sucks that I won't be able to play it since I don't really have time for video games anymore... I was looking forward to it.

6GB! :eek:
..........

So much for being procedural! Maybe that's expected usage after you start collecting tons of creatures. What is it? 200,000 planets? (Probably less now - maybe 20,000) 10 creatures per planet?

20,000 planets, 10 creatures each, 20-25k per creature - That's at least 4.2 gigs right there.

OH GOD 6 GB

The requirements are surprisingly low.

6GB is small for a game like this... Must be using some new compressing thing *shrug*

My Vista laptop had a painful time running it at first but i installed all the updates for my laptop and now it runs, albiet not smoothly as my desktop or as pretty, but it runs.

Dont mention that to MobBoss, or he will give you an earfull about how Spore is not Bloatware and starts spouting Ad Homenems at ya :rolleyes:.

Thats because it isn't bloatware because your definition of bloatware is relative to what your computer can do. 6 GBs is nothing for my 1.2 TBs hard disk, 4 gbs of Ram, and 2.0 Ghz processor.

Thats because it isn't bloatware because your definition of bloatware is relative to what your computer can do. 6 GBs is nothing for my 1.2 TBs hard disk, 4 gbs of Ram, and 2.0 Ghz processor.

Harddrive capacity has nothing to do with RAM or processing power.

Harddrive capacity has nothing to do with RAM or processing power.

I know that, but i was listing my other specs before someone could rebut with "but look at the processing requirements, look at the RAM!"

I know that, but i was listing my other specs before someone could rebut with "but look at the processing requirements, look at the RAM!"

Your graphics card is probably bad and I bet your case doesn't cool air very well. Who knows, you probably use on-board sound, too. I bet your mouse and keyboard are still wired keyboard's and that you have a tiny screen - and only one at that. Your processor's cache sizes are probably really small and I bet your RAM has really bad latency.

Your graphics card is probably bad and I bet your case doesn't cool air very well. Who knows, you probably use on-board sound, too. I bet your mouse and keyboard are still wired keyboard's and that you have a tiny screen - and only one at that. Your processor's cache sizes are probably really small and I bet your RAM has really bad latency.

Jeez louis just kill his puppy and burn his house down already!

Your graphics card is probably bad and I bet your case doesn't cool air very well. Who knows, you probably use on-board sound, too. I bet your mouse and keyboard are still wired keyboard's and that you have a tiny screen - and only one at that. Your processor's cache sizes are probably really small and I bet your RAM has really bad latency.

Whats a Pentium? And this mouse thing, I dont like rodents much.

Jeez louis just kill his puppy and burn his house down already!

I was merely providing examples.

Your graphics card is probably bad and I bet your case doesn't cool air very well. Who knows, you probably use on-board sound, too. I bet your mouse and keyboard are still wired keyboard's and that you have a tiny screen - and only one at that. Your processor's cache sizes are probably really small and I bet your RAM has really bad latency.

rofl, i love this post.....
in any case, im really excited by this game..
as always though guys, i suspect the real requirement is much higher, and a decent graphics card is very definitely a necessity, for that reason i wont purchase this game till i get a card upgrade..there's gonna be a lot of 3D shizniz in this game...
oh and daym, i remember 12 years ago buying a 2.5GB hard disk drive for about £200...how times change!

I have no doubts that even Spore 2 will run at full settings on my PC. It might have some trouble on my MacBook but probably won't be that bad.

Damn. I have to spend $120 to upgrade to Leopard... ;_;

www.systemrequirementslab.com

just go there, it says if your comp can run it

Damn. I have to spend $120 to upgrade to Leopard... ;_;

Lol Macs. Kids, that's why you don't buy Mac.

Lol Macs. Kids, that's why you don't buy Mac.

Well to play devils advocate, you're looking at the same price, if not more, to upgrade a PC. I mean for me to upgrade my PC from an Athlon 3200+ with 1GB of RAM on a GeForce 6800GT to a Duo Core E6850 with 2GB of RAM on a GeForce 8800GTX cost me nearly $800.

www.systemrequirementslab.com (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com)

just go there, it says if your comp can run it

That damn site is complete and total bull. It said I couldn't even run Empire at War, and lookee here, I'm running it at medium graphics with no noticeable lag! I'm running The Sims 2 on full graphics and it works like a dream, contrary to the sites opinion! Now, CIV, yeah that's a problem.

Not an opinion, the site compares your PC to official system requirements

Well to play devils advocate, you're looking at the same price, if not more, to upgrade a PC. I mean for me to upgrade my PC from an Athlon 3200+ with 1GB of RAM on a GeForce 6800GT to a Duo Core E6850 with 2GB of RAM on a GeForce 8800GTX cost me nearly $800.
E6850 and 8800GTX are horribly overpriced anyway

Hi i got spore yesterday but cannot play it
So
getting- 2.2Ghz AMD 5000 with 2 GB ram.
I guess about time to replace my machine,which was (1.6 ghz, 356 ram AMD gfoirce 440 mx 8 agp)
$800 AUD to $900 AUD to be able to play spore!
will ASUS 8500 512 ram video card run it?
or better to get ASUS 9600 512 ram card?
Thanks

will ASUS 8500 512 ram video card run it?
or better to get ASUS 9600 512 ram card?
Yes and yes. Both of them will run Spore, but the 9600 will give you much better performance than the 8500

On these requirements it doesn't say anything about an internet connection required although I thought it did need one. Well I only have dial-up and no dedicated phone line so I was wondering if I can still play this game.

I know that the data transfer will be small since it is not actually downloading the creature but the blueprints of the creature so will I be able to play this game with dial-up and not being on the internet while i play it?

I have 1.86 GHz, but the requirement is 2.0. I can play the demo creature creator fine that has the same requirement. Will I still be able to run the game or should I cancel my order for Spore?

Should this be a sticky?

I have 1.86 GHz, but the requirement is 2.0. I can play the demo creature creator fine that has the same requirement. Will I still be able to run the game or should I cancel my order for Spore?
The requirement is a 2ghz Pentium 4
If you're using an AMD or a Core/Core2 processor then it should run

I don't think that this thread needs a sticky, it's not really that critical or long-term.

Damn. I have to spend $120 to upgrade to Leopard... ;_;Is it usual with macs that you have to upgrade your OS regularly to have the new programs working? It feels a bit strange that they skip backwards compatibility this soon.
They can forget about forcing me into buying Leopard just to be able to buy Spore... A lot of people must be in the same situation as me, so is it a possibility we'll see a patch that will make Spore playable with Tiger?

This thing have made me kind of worried about Diablo3 to mac, that's a game I've waiting for in contrast to Spore.

I have some sort of Intel 945G integrated graphics chip, and it's running Spore albeit at 800x600 and the lowest settings. I also have a Core 2 Duo E6550 and 2 gigs of RAM. I haven't really noticed any problems with gameplay.

Ok, My new PC is being Built will pick up in 24 hours- then Load Spore almost 7 days after buying it!
This is the spec's Hope it will run on it?
AMD 5000 2.2 Ghz
2GB RAM
ASUS Gforce 9600 512 RAM
HDD 160 GB

That will definitely run it.

My PC:
P4 2.4 gHz
2GB RAM
Radeon X1650 Pro

can run it on low settings at 1024x768 or medium at 800x600. I can't wait to see what this game looks like with a more powerful pc (hopefully in a few months)

Okay so technically the fact that I have a 64 mb video card means I shouldn't buy spore, but I have played countless games that say they need 128 mb and run fine on normal settings. The creature creator works fine, so should I write this 128 bs off as a conspiracy between EA and the video card industry? For example I play Battlefield 2142 on high settings all the time and it runs fine...when I have half of the "required" memory. Another 128 game, Sins of a Solar Empire features a lot of quick zooming in and out that I figure will also be featured in Spore, and it runs fine.

I could possibly pull out my old Mx 440 and see if that would run it.(its a 64mb VRAM card that should meet all requirements besides the memory one ) Id really not want to mess around with drivers at this point though.

oh yeah, dont worry about it. I have become an expert at returning already opened PC games to unsuspecting best buy employees. call of duty 4 comes to mind....now that's a game that truly needed the 128 mb...but I see that as being much more graphic intensive than spore will be.

I could not run it on my older PC which is why I am having to upgrade to a new complete system
My old card gforce 440 -64 MB
Spore kept saying "your graphics card is below requirements"
So there was no way around to start the game.
You need min graphics 128 ram card and a 2 ghz processor.

well, that sucks...i have a geforce 7150...does that help at all or is it really all about the memory number

If what SpurnSpore said, then no, it does not. Looks like it just checks for a number.

Kinda sucks though. It should give you a choice whether or not you want to run it (Make the message a warning, not a barrier)

# Supported Video Cards
# NVIDIA GeForce series
# FX 5900, FX 5950
# 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
# 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
# 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
# 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280

# Intel® Extreme Graphics
# GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100


# ATI Radeon™ series
# 9500, 9600, 9800
# X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
# X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
# 2400, 2600, 2900
# 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
# 4850
# FOR WINDOWS XP
# * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
# * 512 MB RAM
# * A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
# * At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations.
# FOR WINDOWS VISTA
# * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
# * 768 MB RAM
# * A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
# * At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations.
Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

I could possibly pull out my old Mx 440 and see if that would run it.(its a 64mb VRAM card that should meet all requirements besides the memory one ) Id really not want to mess around with drivers at this point though.
Geforce 2/4 MX doesn't support pixel shader 2.0

well, that sucks...i have a geforce 7150...does that help at all or is it really all about the memory number
Geforce 7150 is an integrated chipset. You can use BIOS to allocate system RAM as VRAM

Geforce 2/4 MX doesn't support pixel shader 2.0

Its listed as supporting it. Guess that was wrong though.

It's a DirectX 7 card, it only supports T&L. Pixel shaders weren't available until DirectX 8 (1.x) and DirectX 9 (2.0 and up)

Geforce 2/4 MX doesn't support pixel shader 2.0


Geforce 7150 is an integrated chipset. You can use BIOS to allocate system RAM as VRAM

Whoa hold up, so i can make my video card have 128 mb? I must investigate this BIOS you speak of.

Yeah. Restart your computer, then when it's starting up it says something like "Press (key) to enter setup" where the key is usually Delete or F8 or some other key. Then go through the menus until you find an option to change the amount of video memory. Then save and exit

Okay thanks I'll try that.

Nice I changed it to 128 mb. Now I need to convince myself that I really don't have the money right now to rush out and buy Spore...

You can also try here for a test on your PC.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

Cheers, will add to the op

Awesome I Have Wanted Spore 4 Ages But Didn't Have 128mb Of Ram But Now That U Guys Told Me Bout Bios I Can. But Plz Tell Which Menu It Is :)

Who Is Gettin Galactic Edition?????????????????????????????????

I pre-ordered the Galactic Edition, and still don't have it.

Who Is Gettin Galactic Edition?????????????????????????????????
I dont think its worth it really.

And would you mind typing out your words? I don't mind spelling mistakes, but replacing for with 4 and you with U is kind of annoying.

Lolz It Is Way Easia 2 Type Like Dis Caus Ya Dont Hav 2 Keep Ritin Words Hahaha O Well I Will Try 2 Be Betta Next Time Btw Spore Rox!

I note that you tried to write it in ALLCAPS. You're not going to get any respect or recognition typing like that.

Plus the forum automatically turns into just the first letter capitalized so its not even as noticeable.

Yes- though it's still a telltale sign.