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Spore doesn’t support MacBooks made before 2007

September 8th, 2008 @ 17:15

We’ll put this down to being “unfortunate.” According to this GhostRazor story, Spore will only run on MacBooks made post-2007.

Before then, Apple was making Macbooks with the GMA 950 graphics card embedded, after which it was upgraded to the GMA X3100.

Spore explicitly does not support the GMA 950 on OSX: the best part of all this is that it’ll run on a pre-2007 MacBook using BootCamp and Windows.

No Macbook Pros have this issue, apparently.

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Syrok said:
September 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

It runs using windows but not using Tiger; Leopard or whatever animal the current OS is? How strange.

Luckily I got a newer MacBook.
mortiferus said:
September 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

If it supports GMA950 on the PC there is no reason why it should not run on the Mac unless it is a driver issue. I hope there will be a patch for this silly problem.
rainer said:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

Blame crappy Intel drivers, the OpenGL drivers for Intel GPU’s are pretty bad (even on Windows*) the Direct3D side is in a lot better shape.

* Try running Doom 3 on an X3100
mortiferus said:
September 9th, 2008 at 4:19 am

@rainer

Apple is responsible for all video drivers bundled with the Mac OS. They have had these type of issues in the past.
ElfShotTheFood said:
September 9th, 2008 at 4:47 am

It just doesn’t work.

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