Spore System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Spore
Developer:
Maxis
Publisher:
Electronic Arts
Release date:
7 September 2008 (15 years ago)
User score:
4.5 / 5 (207 votes)

Official Spore system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Spore at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.

PassMinimum requirements

Pass Graphics card:
A 128 MB Video Card*, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
Pass CPU:
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent (XP/Vista)
Pass Memory:
512 MB RAM (XP) 768 MB RAM (Vista)
File size:
At least 6 GB of hard drive space
Operating system:
no data
DirectX:
no data

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:
no data
CPU:
no data
Memory:
no data
File size:
no data
Operating system:
no data
DirectX:
no data

Spore performance on your PC


Spore performance on your GPU

GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

RTX 3060
minimum
Any
30 fps @ low
1366×768
60 fps @ medium
1920×1080
60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Spore FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.

low settings / 768p
130−140 FPS
medium settings / 1080p
130−140 FPS
ultra settings / 1080p
130−140 FPS

Spore performance on your CPU

Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

i5-12400

User Ratings

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4.5 207 votes

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