Spore won't even start?

[Mike_IronFist]

I haven't been able to get Spore running on Wine, regardless of running it with or without any kind of crack.

Can anyone help me get it started?

[asdfoo]

I haven't been able to get Spore running on Wine, regardless of running it with or without any kind of crack.

Can anyone help me get it started?

care to provide some elementary information?

wine --version

glxinfo | grep -i version


terminal output? (cd to install dir, then run wine spore.exe or whatever)

[Mike_IronFist]

care to provide some elementary information?

wine --version

glxinfo | grep -i version


terminal output? (cd to install dir, then run wine spore.exe or whatever)

Ah yes, excuse me for not mentioning this beforehand!
Just as a note, I'm running Ubuntu Jaunty, 64-bit. I've tried, and failed, on the 32-bit version as well.

Wine is version 1.1.9, but once again I've tried, and failed on the original version that comes with Ubuntu as well.

Glx Info:server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.3
OpenGL version string: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.36
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler


Now, for the terminal output for running "wine SporeApp.exe":
mike@mike-laptop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/SPORE$ wine SporeApp.exe
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationProcess (0xffffffff,info_class=34,0x292a3b0,0x00000004,0x2 92a3ac) Unknown information class
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
fixme:debugstr:CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent (0xffffffff)->(0x292929c): Stub!
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x62c06284 at address 0x7dbf6be6 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x62c06284 in 32-bit code (0x7dbf6be6).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:7dbf6be6 ESP:02928708 EBP:00000009 EFLAGS:00010246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:00000018 EBX:f7cf56c0 ECX:7dc49ec0 EDX:62c06284
ESI:f7cf56c0 EDI:00004a6b
Stack dump:
0x02928708: 00000000 7dbfe422 00000001 00000000
0x02928718: 7d320e00 01320e2c 00004a6b 7d320e00
0x02928728: ffeec3e8 7dbfea11 f7cf56c0 00004a6b
0x02928738: 00000001 00000000 7dc24ac0 7dc25d60
0x02928748: 02928768 7ce8d9b2 f7fecff4 00000000
0x02928758: f7e3be41 f7fecff4 7c512598 00000000
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7dbf6be6 in libgl.so.1 (+0x52be6) (0x00000009)
2 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
0x7dbf6be6: movl $0x7dc27000,0x0(%edx)
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (114 modules)
PE 400000- 243a000 Deferred sporeapp
ELF 7b800000-7b940000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b940000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bcac000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bcac000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7cc3b000-7dba4000 Deferred libglcore.so.1
ELF 7dba4000-7dc4b000 Export libgl.so.1
ELF 7dc68000-7dcfd000 Deferred opengl32<elf>
ELF 7de69000-7de9c000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7de70000-7de9c000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7de9c000-7deb1000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 7dea0000-7deb1000 \ midimap
ELF 7deb1000-7deda000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7dec0000-7deda000 \ msacm32
ELF 7deda000-7dee3000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 7dee3000-7dfab000 Deferred libasound.so.2
ELF 7dfab000-7dfd0000 Deferred libaudiofile.so.0
ELF 7dfd0000-7dfdb000 Deferred libesd.so.0
ELF 7dfdf000-7dff8000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7dfe0000-7dff8000 \ msacm32
ELF 7dff8000-7e001000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e001000-7e006000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e006000-7e00a000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e00a000-7e012000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e012000-7e01c000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e01c000-7e022000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e022000-7e025000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e025000-7e02a000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e02a000-7e044000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e044000-7e048000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e048000-7e04d000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e04d000-7e13c000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e13c000-7e14c000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e14c000-7e164000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e164000-7e16d000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e16d000-7e16f000 Deferred libnvidia-tls.so.1
ELF 7e16f000-7e18a000 Deferred wineesd<elf>
\-PE 7e170000-7e18a000 \ wineesd
ELF 7e18a000-7e226000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e1a0000-7e226000 \ winex11
ELF 7e28a000-7e2b1000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e2b1000-7e2de000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e2de000-7e2f4000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e2f4000-7e36b000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e388000-7e3a3000 Deferred wsock32<elf>
\-PE 7e390000-7e3a3000 \ wsock32
ELF 7e3a3000-7e4c7000 Deferred wined3d<elf>
\-PE 7e3c0000-7e4c7000 \ wined3d
ELF 7e4c7000-7e4f8000 Deferred d3d9<elf>
\-PE 7e4d0000-7e4f8000 \ d3d9
ELF 7e4f8000-7e519000 Deferred d3dx8<elf>
\-PE 7e500000-7e519000 \ d3dx8
ELF 7e519000-7e53a000 Deferred d3dx9_36<elf>
\-PE 7e520000-7e53a000 \ d3dx9_36
ELF 7e53a000-7e554000 Deferred d3dx9_27<elf>
\-PE 7e540000-7e554000 \ d3dx9_27
ELF 7e554000-7e58d000 Deferred dinput<elf>
\-PE 7e560000-7e58d000 \ dinput
ELF 7e58d000-7e5a7000 Deferred dinput8<elf>
\-PE 7e590000-7e5a7000 \ dinput8
ELF 7e5a7000-7e66e000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7e5b0000-7e66e000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e66e000-7e6cb000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7e680000-7e6cb000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7e6cb000-7e7f7000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7e6e0000-7e7f7000 \ shell32
ELF 7e7f7000-7e85e000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e800000-7e85e000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e85e000-7e971000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7e880000-7e971000 \ ole32
ELF 7e971000-7ea05000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7e980000-7ea05000 \ winmm
ELF 7ea05000-7ea51000 Deferred dsound<elf>
\-PE 7ea10000-7ea51000 \ dsound
ELF 7ea51000-7ea9f000 Deferred dbghelp<elf>
\-PE 7ea60000-7ea9f000 \ dbghelp
ELF 7ea9f000-7eacc000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 7eab0000-7eacc000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7eacc000-7eae2000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7eae9000-7eaff000 Deferred psapi<elf>
\-PE 7eaf0000-7eaff000 \ psapi
ELF 7eaff000-7eb1f000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7eb10000-7eb1f000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7eb1f000-7eb46000 Deferred netapi32<elf>
\-PE 7eb30000-7eb46000 \ netapi32
ELF 7eb46000-7eb67000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7eb50000-7eb67000 \ imm32
ELF 7eb67000-7eb80000 Deferred usp10<elf>
\-PE 7eb70000-7eb80000 \ usp10
ELF 7eb80000-7eb95000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7eb90000-7eb95000 \ lz32
ELF 7eb95000-7ec01000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 7ebb0000-7ec01000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7ec01000-7ec20000 Deferred msvcr71<elf>
\-PE 7ec10000-7ec20000 \ msvcr71
ELF 7ec20000-7ec75000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec30000-7ec75000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ec75000-7ed15000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec90000-7ed15000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ed15000-7ee63000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ed30000-7ee63000 \ user32
ELF 7ef8d000-7ef99000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ef99000-7efa4000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7efa4000-7efbd000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efbd000-7efe3000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efe4000-7efff000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7eff0000-7efff000 \ version
ELF f7cf6000-f7cfa000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f7cfa000-f7e5d000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF f7e5e000-f7e77000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f7e77000-f7e80000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF f7e94000-f7fcb000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF f7fcd000-f7fee000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\SporeApp.exe
00000009 0 <==
0000000c
00000016 0
00000013 0
00000012 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000011 0
00000010 0
00000021
00000022 0
Backtrace:
=>1 0x7dbf6be6 in libgl.so.1 (+0x52be6) (0x00000009)
2 0x00000000 (0x00000000)

[asdfoo]

Wine is version 1.1.9, but once again I've tried, and failed on the original version that comes with Ubuntu as well.
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Wine 1.1.9 was released 11 months ago, 1.1.31 was released two weeks ago, might be worth trying that one.

[Mike_IronFist]

Wine 1.1.9 was released 11 months ago, 1.1.31 was released two weeks ago, might be worth trying that one.

I just gave that a go..unfortunately, it didn't help.

[zaksworld]

I've tried to install spore to and it didn't work for me either, then I found this:
http://linuxoutlaws.com/spore

It explains how to customize your wine and make it able to run spore.

I customized my wine to be able to run iTunes, and now my iTunes runs nearly perfect on Ubuntu! (except it can't find my iPod :() Ha