Spore freezes after a while

What PSU? Make and model. What are CPU and GPU temps? Try Speedfan, it will let you monitor temps and voltages. Keep an eye on 12V.

Mike.

open the case of your pc and check the side.

Anyways, what mike99 is implying is that there is a reasonable chance the PSU is failing as random "freezing" is usually an after-affect of that.

I have a Codegen 300X ATX 2.03 P4 (400W).

That is not a major brand of PSU, also the performance drops with age. Can you borrow a suitable PSU to test?

Mike.

Cheaper PSUs tend to perform badly when they get enar to maximum capacity.

I'm guessing Spore is keeping your CPU and graphics card working hard, and your PSU can't keep up with the load. Buying a decent PSu is always a good idea - it's;
- less likely to give you annoying temporary problems (like you have)
- less likely to give you a major permanent one (blowing up and frying all your expensive components)
- it's one of the few components you'll (realistically) carry across to a new build, so you should get a few years' use out of it.

Ive gotten to tribal stage, though ive experienced crashes from the begining.

Don't get a cheap no-name PSU!
check out http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=108088
A good quality 420W will do fine.

Mike.

Nope. Still freezes.
Thanks though.

Is it me or is it that Spore seems to fail on most Nvidia cards. I'm a little overqualified to play the game, but could anyone make a suggestion? I crash directly after cell stage, during the cut-scene. I re-installed Windows last week, reinstalled the driver and Direct X, and Spore. I can say that I play Crysis at high settings around 30-40fps. I'll admit this is a Dell

Specs:
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP2
Pentium 4 660 3.6ghz dual core
650 wat PSU
400 wat secondary PSU @ 12V+37A
NVidia 9800GTX+ x2 = 1g
2045MB DDR2 667 ram

Ive got spore running on a 8800GTX and although Ive played for up to 10 hours straight at once Ive never had a problem, not one crash or stutter... and thats under Vista 64 .

Im running e8400 and have 8gb of ram.

Yeah, unfortunately I had to disable SLI before the game would start to work. Hopefully they'll come out with a patch that allows us to enable it. Happy hunting

it just got done freezing on me literally 5 seconds after loading planet UP YOURS. i was on my way to a nearby nest to kill something to eat, and it locked up on me. had to restart my computer 5 times, since my PC has some sort of virus that makes it start up successfully only SOMETIMES (unrelated to spore). nothing can be done at the moment to fix it. it's just a very annoying bug that NEEDS to be fixed by the professionals. also, to those of you who want to point fingers at the DRM: the DRM has nothing to do with it, since my game is pirated.