Force your older Mac to evolve and run Spore Creature Creator

21 Comments by Kevin Kelly Jun 17th 2008 8:10PM
Filed under: Mac, Simulations

If you've been living under a rock lately and haven't heard about the Spore Creature Creator, we forgive you. However, if you actually just live under a rock and look like something spawned from the Creature Creator, and have been pouting because you have an Interl Mac Mini or an older MacBook with Intel's GMA 950 integrated graphics, then turn that frown upside down.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog will let you know how to fool the program into thinking you're sporting a different graphics chip, and you'll be able to play God on your precious piece of outdated, but still loved, hardware. Just don't blame us if your now hacked machine becomes sentient and starts spawning.

Tags: Graphics, Intel, MacBook, Spore

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Joeshie: Jun 17th 2008; 8:16PM

lol gaming on Macs

Fatass of Sarcasmness: Jun 17th 2008; 8:27PM

lol anything else on Windows

Lhasapso: Jun 17th 2008; 8:47PM

Zing.

SKI: Jun 17th 2008; 10:09PM

Who needs to be able to do anything else?

mr nimblewick: Jun 17th 2008; 8:17PM

I want to do this on my crappy pc laptop.

mr nimblewick: Jun 17th 2008; 8:36PM

Hahaha, I got it to run by deleting some text from the config file, but the graphics don't really display. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Ihavepants: Jun 17th 2008; 11:18PM

Get a better computer?

mr nimblewick: Jun 17th 2008; 11:49PM

Hm... Can I borrow $1500?

Ihavepants: Jun 17th 2008; 11:59PM

How about you spend around 900 for a desktop PC that runs Crysis on max.

mr nimblewick: Jun 18th 2008; 12:15AM

I don't have any room for a desktop... and I hate them. I hate them with a passion.

Ihavepants: Jun 18th 2008; 12:28AM

I hate you >.>

But seriously now, let's hook up. It is meant to be, we will be the perfect union, we shall defy physics and common sense, you will give me your bank details, we will depart from eachother. You dirty and selling your socks for candy, Me: living in the bahamas, permanently naked.

mr nimblewick: Jun 18th 2008; 10:33AM

So not only will you have pants, but you will have my pants. But I like my pants. I love my pants.

iDEC: Jun 17th 2008; 8:18PM

is the headline supposed to say creatore creator, or was that an honest mistake? lol.

Unknown: Jun 17th 2008; 8:36PM

Yeah my mac mini did it.

FrankTheCrank: Jun 17th 2008; 8:21PM

OK....this is the third, maybe fourth Spore story today?

It's official, SPORE hype is in full effect.

Wes: Jun 17th 2008; 8:23PM

3-4 fps for all MacMinis! Hurray for you guys!

blahblahbloo: Jun 17th 2008; 8:40PM

What sort of DRM scheme does Spore use on the Mac?

Bootes: Jun 17th 2008; 10:43PM

Checks that the CD is in the drive I assume. The Mac doesn't have the big bad protections that Windows has.

thon: Jun 18th 2008; 10:26AM

FYI, this doesn't work on macbooks, and only works on some mac-minis...LAME

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