Anybody make Spore creatures?

[Graham Kennedy]

* 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

[colmquinn]

Cheers GK

* * FOR WINDOWS XP 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent - Check
* * 512 MB RAM - Check
* * A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 - No video card
* * At least 6 GB of hard drive space - Check

I've seen the game mentioned before & thought it a good concept but never got around to checking it out properly.


What do you think, should I go ahead & risk buying it without the video card? Don't worry its not a big swing if it works or not. If it doesn't work I'll give it to a friend who's got a better machine.

[Griffin]

What do you think, should I go ahead & risk buying it without the video card? Don't worry its not a big swing if it works or not. If it doesn't work I'll give it to a friend who's got a better machine.

I'd check about the DRM issues first, I seem to rember something about it only having 3 installs or something.

[colmquinn]

[Condan1993]I'd check about the DRM issues first, I seem to rember something about it only having 3 installs or something.

I had a quick look about it (only after you mentioned it, thank you). It was initially 3 installs but after being sued and sundry legal stuff going on they made it 5 installs.

I don't know if i'll bother buying it or not, if its in local game shop for the right price I'll decide at the time & take the risk, or maybe not.

[Reliant121]

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/7
* 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.

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
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

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.

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.

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 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB 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
NVIDIA GeForce series
7300, 7600, 8600, 8800

ATI Radeon™ series
X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600

Intel® Extreme Graphics
GMA X3100
This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

[Tsukiyumi]

Funny, I only have a 1.8 ghz Celeron processor, and it runs fine on my system.

[Nickswitz]

It's probably not a single core processor, it's probably a dual core processor.

[Tsukiyumi]

It's probably not a single core processor, it's probably a dual core processor.

Are you kidding? Dual cores were new and rare when I bought this thing.

It's a plain ol' Intel Celeron.

[Nickswitz]

Oh, wow, that's surprising then.

[Tsukiyumi]

I have a really good video card, and 4GB of RAM; that might be picking up the slack.

[colmquinn]

Well da game wasn't in local shop so the choice to buy or not is off da cards for now for me.