Spore has arrived

newtekie1 · Sep 8, 2008

Lillebror said:
Hey Newtekie1 - Is the Eee pc a good buy? Im thinking about buying one!

I love mine. I got the 1000H with Windows XP on it. I quickly reformatted and put Vista Business on it. With the 2GB RAM upgrade I did, Vista runs like a champ on it. Of course, since ASUS doesn't have a proper Vista ACPI driver, the most of the hot keys don't work, but it doesn't really bother me.

And it does manage to handle Spore wonderfully. Low Settings@1024x600 runs smoothly. The touch pad makes it very hard to play though, I need to hook up a mouse, so I only really played a little of the Cell stage.

Lillebror · Sep 8, 2008

Thanks dude! Im so gonna get one of em

Just reading thru some of the files in spore - They do some clever tricks, those guys

I like this one:

# Drop CPU Settings By GPU
# prevent high cpu level from pushing too many batches to medium gpu
# this helps medium gpu classification apply to more cards

Apocolypse007 · Sep 8, 2008

I've just started this game yesterday. Only got a couple hours of gameplay (if that) in so far, but I am loving it. The game is very intuitive, simple, and polished. It's also very open ended.

I have the game running on my PC at Max settings at 1280X1024 (my monitor's max res), and haven't had a single crash or slowdown.

I'd post some pics but I'm at Penn State right now, I'll be home later tonight.

Lillebror · Sep 8, 2008

After way to many hours in space (havent closed the game for like 15 hours or so) it crashed

Mussels · Sep 8, 2008

thats what happened to me lillebror

Lillebror · Sep 8, 2008

I lost 5 mill sporebucks :\ damn.. they should make streaming savegame, in a game like this!

Triprift · Sep 9, 2008

I managed to wipe out my first species last night night that was sweet.

ShadowFold · Sep 9, 2008

Man spore is fun. I just got done taking over my planet, Jotun. I am about to start playing again and go to different planets.

Triprift · Sep 9, 2008

Cool good to hear ya joined the revolution sweeeeeet :toast:

ShadowFold · Sep 9, 2008

Add Shadowfold to your spore friends, I tried looking for you but I couldn't find you :ohwell:

AphexDreamer · Sep 9, 2008

Just got on land. Does gameplay change after that or is it like that from then on?

ShadowFold · Sep 9, 2008

AphexDreamer said:
Just got on land. Does gameplay change after that or is it like that from then on?

When you get on land you play a action rpg style then you play RTS for awile then its you flying around in a space ship colonizing planets getting more money until you have the whole galaxy under your control and all other races wiped from exsistance(atleast in my case :laugh:

)

PrudentPrincess · Sep 9, 2008

Post your Spore usernames please!
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=70877&highlight=spore

Triprift · Sep 9, 2008

Not a problem man just did.

Lillebror · Sep 9, 2008

TripRift - you should collect all our usernames in the first post

Im Lillebror Ingame

Triprift · Sep 9, 2008

Just added ya to mah buddies list Lillebror.

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Spore has arrived

newtekie1

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Lillebror

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Apocolypse007

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Lillebror

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Mussels

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Lillebror

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Triprift

ShadowFold

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ShadowFold

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AphexDreamer

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Lillebror

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Triprift

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