Spore

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Spore

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Developers
	Maxis
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	September 7, 2008
macOS (OS X)	September 7, 2008

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Spore
Spore	2008
Darkspore	2011

General information

Steam Users' Forums

Steam Community Discussions

Issues and fixes

Runtime Error R6025

In some instances when trying to run Spore it will crash-to-desktop with a 'Runtime Error R6025'. This is caused by corrupted files in the user's game files. The corrupted file(s) will need to be deleted; this will remove your to-date progress. To save your data it is recommended the SPORE folder in %APPDATA% be renamed (e.g. SPORE_OLD) then run the game. Now individually add each element back into the SPORE folder then checked to see if the game runs. Anything that causes the game to stop loading is corrupted and should be deleted.

Launch Error [2000] and [1004]

When launching Spore on Windows 7 or 8, it is common for it to crash and give the error 'Configuration Script Failed [2000]' followed by 'Could not find a needed package. The data directory is missing or corrupt. [1004]'. This is due to registry keys being deleted at every launch. To fix this, you need to enter the registry strings below to keep the right file path.

In layman's terms basically the game is trying to look for the files it needs in order to run in Folder A but Folder A does not exist therefore it throws an error. It can't find the files because the directions telling the game where to find the files are wrong, so we need to fix those directions and everything will be fine.

You must first go to your registry by looking for Regedit and running it as admin

From there you'll need to go to:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• SOFTWARE
• Wow6432Node (it may look different on a 32 bit machine)
• Electronic Arts
• SPORE

Now you should see some string values, some will be missing while others will be pointing to the wrong file path. If a file I mention isn't there then simply create it.

Essentially DataDir should point to your Data folder within Spore. Installoc would point to the aforementioned Spore folder and then you'd create two 32 bit word values by going to Edit then New. One should say ReIndexYesOrNo with a value of 0 and another one named InstallCompleted with a value of 1

Now I see the problem a lot of the time is that they're actually pointing to the wrong path as shown below

AppDir = SPORE
DataDir = C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Data\
InstallLoc = C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\SPORE
PlayerDir = My Spore Creations

DataDir and AppDir try to find an Electronic Arts folder and there simply isn't one (Folder A and this part only applies if you're using the Steam version) instead the file path would most likely look something like this

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Spore\Data

For DataDir

For the Installoc it would simply stop at Spore

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Spore

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP SP1, Vista
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0