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Spore isn’t the most resource intensive game around, but it still needs a fairly beefy system. You would expect, therefore, to have problems running it on older ‘legacy’ machines. Last years laptop should be ok though, right? Right?
If you own a MacBook made before late 2007, you are out of luck. According to the Spore system requirements, the game will not work with the Intel GMA 950 graphics hardware used in Macbooks until the end of last year. The MacBook Pro with its fancy-schmancy nVidia Geforce 8600M GT is fine.
The problem seems to be with the OSX drivers for the GMA 950. If you run WIndows XP via Boot Camp on the same hardware the game will run without problems – although this could add up to $US 200 to the price of the game if you don’t own it already.
Spore Hates your Macbook [GhostRazor - thanks to Angus McQuarrie for the tip]
With the 80GB model of the PS3, Americans were invited to feel some of Europe’s pain. Gone was the promise of near-universal PS2 backwards compatability, replaced with a software-based emulation system where many games work, many games work with issues and some games do not work. At all. I say some of Europe’s pain, though, because half the hassle of it all is in checking the PAL BC list on SCEE’s torturous BC site to see if your games work. See, the site does not contain a search function. The newly-launched US search site does, allowing you to enter the name of your PS2 games into a small text field, conduct a search and be provided with a prompt answer. Awfully clever, that, and definitely ground-breaking technology. I bet SCEE are kicking themselves they didn’t think of it. SCEA PS3 BC Search Site [SCEA PS3 Support]
