Official Dark Injection FAQ! Answers and Fixes!

[IceCube]

Hello! I would like to ask about dark injection, I'm having a problem.
Every time I install DI and open the game, it tells me to use the ModAPI. however,
when I use the mod API it says my spore is outdated.

so in short, how do I get a dark injection to work + how do I get the latest ver of spore?

[Bingles Praise]

Please help! I am on GOG version of SPORE and I keep getting this error message even though I've already done everything else right.

I can't open the Spore ModAPI Launcher, and it's telling me to contact you all. Keep in mind I've done the thing where you shortcut the Data Config of GA to a custom Data folder in the Launcher Kit folder.

https://imgur.com/a/VFdLDDd

[Bingles Praise]

Nevermind, went through the .exe's Properties and found out my version of SPORE was on 3.0.0.2818 instead of 3.1.0.22. Sorry for bothering, I will get to redownloading it with that version instead!

[bungo]

Is there a solution to the used by another process error? I've never seen a solution and I've been struggling for a while. I've tried shutting off spore by task manager but it still doesn't work.

[starfall]

Okay, so after a long long time of not playing this game, thought id play again. Was looking for mods to make the game more stable but didnt find much, coulnt even find the autosave mod, but this mod caught my eye. So i decided to try it. Cell stage, crash as soon as i tried to mate, same in next stage, crash as soon as i tried to mate. Next stage, crash when tried to advance to civil stage. Crash when trying to advance to space stage. I thought that okay, its a beta, maybe the earlier stages have issues not yet dealt with. So i tried to run this mod when already in space stage. Seems to run okay though im not exactly sure what this mod does anymore at this point... Took a mission to beam down to a planet... bla bla bla... Tried entering the outfitter before beaming down to the planet and... you guessed it, crash.
Im not exactly sure why all these crashes are occuring and i didnt seem to find much info in the past posts here but im quite sure that these crashes are not normal. Im running the gog collection v3.1.0.22 and followed the instructions to install the api and the mod. The api gives no errors.
Im running on windows 10 Intel i7-9700 3.6ghz 8core, 32 gb ram, Nvidia geforce rtx 2070 Super as primary card and rtx 2070 as secondary (currently not in use much) 8gb vram on primary card. if you need any more info, ask and ill try to provide.
Hopefully someone might have an idea why i get all these crashes everywhere. Strangely enough, i have a feeling its something stupid i did though...

[pikminfan2010]

my modapi didnt work

it said this

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException

[pikminfan2010]

uhhh do image files on desktop work because if they do here


C:\Users\thema\OneDrive\Pictures\Screenshots\Screenshot (3).png

[MissKoboyashi]

I've been trying to install Dark Injection for Arch Linux, I got everything for the mod part working, except launching spore from the API/Mod Manager. It always borks and crashes. I just want to play DI.

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Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in wow64 32-bit code (0x03131779).
Register dump:
 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
 EIP:03131779 ESP:01e0f538 EBP:01e0f588 EFLAGS:00010202(  R- --  I   - - - )
 EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:01e0f550 EDX:00000000
 ESI:0349e968 EDI:01e0fe6c
Stack dump:
0x01e0f538:  01e0f550 00000000 197ebe72 01e0fe6c
0x01e0f548:  0349e968 00000000 0313bcfc ffffffff
0x01e0f558:  40212004 0469a3f7 ffffffff 00000000
0x01e0f568:  00000000 00000000 00f47269 00000048
0x01e0f578:  197ebe72 01e0ff20 031394b5 00000001
0x01e0f588:  01e0f59c 03131c66 01e0fe6c 0349e968
Backtrace:
=>0 0x03131779 in sporemodapi (+0x1779) (0x01e0f588)
  1 0x03131c66 in sporemodapi (+0x1c66) (0x01e0f59c)
  2 0x00f48982 in sporeapp (+0xb48982) (0x01e0ff30)
  3 0x7b828a40 in kernel32 (+0x28a40) (0x01e0ff48)
  4 0x7bc59507 in ntdll (+0x59507) (0x01e0ff5c)
  5 0x7bc59d28 in ntdll (+0x59d28) (0x01e0ffec)
0x03131779 sporemodapi+0x1779: mov (%eax), %edx
Modules:
Module	Address			Debug info	Name (81 modules)
PE	003c0000-003c2000	Deferred        usp10
PE	00400000-01d0e000	Export          sporeapp
PE	021d0000-02215000	Deferred        shlwapi
PE	02220000-02265000	Deferred        dsound
PE	03110000-0311b000	Deferred        vcruntime140
PE	03130000-0316e000	Export          sporemodapi
PE	03480000-03486000	Deferred        sporemodapi-steam_patched
PE	10000000-10015000	Deferred        steam_api
PE	61fc0000-62001000	Deferred        dinput8
PE	63500000-63539000	Deferred        d3dcompiler_47
PE	63900000-6390a000	Deferred        psapi
PE	63f40000-63fd9000	Deferred        d3dx9_27
PE	643c0000-643e7000	Deferred        ws2_32
PE	646c0000-646e3000	Deferred        iphlpapi
PE	64a80000-64aa8000	Deferred        win32u
PE	65480000-654f9000	Deferred        rpcrt4
PE	65680000-65724000	Deferred        msvcrt
PE	66080000-660a1000	Deferred        msacm32
PE	66380000-66496000	Deferred        ole32
PE	66640000-6664c000	Deferred        version
PE	667c0000-667d6000	Deferred        shcore
PE	67500000-6751c000	Deferred        imm32
PE	67bc0000-67d0e000	Deferred        comctl32
PE	684c0000-6850a000	Deferred        combase
PE	68880000-68a31000	Deferred        user32
PE	69600000-69611000	Deferred        xinput9_1_0
PE	69840000-6987f000	Deferred        advapi32
PE	69bc0000-69bcf000	Deferred        wsock32
PE	69f40000-69f61000	Deferred        d3dxof
PE	6aac0000-6ab8b000	Deferred        ucrtbase
PE	6aec0000-6af27000	Deferred        setupapi
PE	6bb40000-6bb96000	Deferred        winex11
PE	6bbc0000-6bbe7000	Deferred        sechost
PE	6cc80000-6cefe000	Deferred        wined3d
PE	6da80000-6db03000	Deferred        gdi32
PE	6ecc0000-6ecd5000	Deferred        dnsapi
PE	6f1c0000-6f1f7000	Deferred        d3d9
PE	6f240000-6f2ff000	Deferred        winmm
PE	6f340000-6f3e9000	Deferred        msvcr90
PE	6f6c0000-6f6cb000	Deferred        nsi
PE	70000000-70075000	Deferred        dbghelp
PE	70d80000-70db5000	Deferred        uxtheme
PE	71080000-7108f000	Deferred        hid
PE	71400000-71d20000	Deferred        shell32
PE	7a800000-7a92e000	Deferred        opengl32
PE	7b000000-7b285000	Deferred        kernelbase
PE	7b800000-7b85b000	Dwarf           kernel32
PE	7bc00000-7bca1000	Dwarf           ntdll
ELF	7decc000-7ded4000	Deferred        libxfixes.so.3
ELF	7ded4000-7dee1000	Deferred        libxcursor.so.1
ELF	7dee1000-7def6000	Deferred        libxi.so.6
ELF	7def6000-7df06000	Deferred        libxrandr.so.2
ELF	7df06000-7df14000	Deferred        libxrender.so.1
ELF	7df14000-7df1b000	Deferred        libxdmcp.so.6
ELF	7df1b000-7df20000	Deferred        libxau.so.6
ELF	7df20000-7df4c000	Deferred        libxcb.so.1
ELF	7df4c000-7e09e000	Deferred        libx11.so.6
ELF	7e0bc000-7e148000	Deferred        winex11.so
ELF	7e148000-7e1ec000	Deferred        opengl32.so
ELF	7e1ec000-7e1ff000	Deferred        libresolv.so.2
ELF	7e200000-7e216000	Deferred        libxext.so.6
ELF	7e216000-7e21d000	Deferred        ws2_32.so
ELF	7e21d000-7e222000	Deferred        dnsapi.so
ELF	7e2f8000-7e323000	Deferred        libexpat.so.1
ELF	7e323000-7e376000	Deferred        libfontconfig.so.1
ELF	7e376000-7e417000	Deferred        libpcre2-8.so.0
ELF	7e417000-7e43a000	Deferred        libbrotlicommon.so.1
ELF	7e43a000-7e59f000	Deferred        libglib-2.0.so.0
ELF	7e59f000-7e6a8000	Deferred        libharfbuzz.so.0
ELF	7e6a8000-7e6e5000	Deferred        libpng16.so.16
ELF	7e6e5000-7e6f7000	Deferred        libbz2.so.1.0
ELF	7e6f7000-7e710000	Deferred        libz.so.1
ELF	7e710000-7e7de000	Deferred        libfreetype.so.6
ELF	7e7de000-7e807000	Deferred        libgcc_s.so.1
ELF	7e807000-7e986000	Deferred        win32u.so
ELF	7ef0e000-7efe2000	Deferred        libm.so.6
ELF	f7c00000-f7e2e000	Deferred        libc.so.6
ELF	f7e30000-f7e3e000	Deferred        libbrotlidec.so.1
ELF	f7e3e000-f7ef3000	Dwarf           ntdll.so
ELF	f7ef5000-f7f2a000	Deferred        ld-linux.so.2
ELF	f7f2a000-f7f2f000	Deferred        <wine-loader>
Threads:
process  tid      prio    name (all IDs are in hex)
00000038 services.exe
	0000003c    0     
	00000040    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
	00000054    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	0000006c    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	0000008c    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	00000098    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	000000b8    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	000000d0    0     
	000000e8    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	00000160    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
	0000017c    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
00000044 svchost.exe
	00000048    0     
	0000005c    0     
	00000060    0     wine_sechost_service
0000004c explorer.exe
	00000050    0     
	000000d4    0     
	000000d8    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
00000064 winedevice.exe
	00000068    0     
	00000070    0     
	00000074    0     wine_sechost_service
	00000078    0     
	0000007c    0     
	00000080    0     
	000000c8    0     
00000084 winedevice.exe
	00000088    0     
	00000090    0     
	00000094    0     wine_sechost_service
	0000009c    0     
	000000a0    0     
	000000a4    0     
	000000a8    0     
	000000ac    0     
000000b0 plugplay.exe
	000000b4    0     
	000000bc    0     
	000000c0    0     wine_sechost_service
	000000c4    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
000000e0 rpcss.exe
	000000e4    0     
	000000f0    0     
	000000f4    0     wine_sechost_service
	000000f8    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
	000000fc    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
	00000100    0     wine_rpcrt4_io
00000158 mscorsvw.exe
	0000015c    0     
	00000168    0     
	0000016c    0     wine_sechost_service
	00000170    0     
00000174 mscorsvw.exe
	00000178    0     
	00000180    0     
	00000184    0     wine_sechost_service
	00000188    0     
00000194 Spore Mod Manager.exe
	00000198    0     
	0000019c    0     
	000001a0    2     .NET Finalizer
	000001a4    0     
	000001a8    0     .NET Timer
	000001b0    0     .NET ThreadPool Worker
	000001c4    0     .NET ThreadPool Worker
	000001cc    0     .NET ThreadPool Worker
	000001d4    0     .NET ThreadPool Gate
	000001d8    0     
	000001dc    0     wine_rpcrt4_server
	000001e0    0     .NET ThreadPool Worker
	000001e4    0     .NET ThreadPool Worker
	000001e8    0     .NET Background GC
00000210 (D) Z:\home\koboyashi\.var\app\com.valvesoftware.Steam\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Spore\SporebinEP1\SporeApp.exe
	00000214    0 <== 
	00000230    0     
00000228 conhost.exe
	0000022c    0     
System information:
    Wine build: wine-8.12
    Platform: x86_64 (guest: i386)
    Version: Windows 7
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 6.4.2-arch1-1

[Bobkin1338]

is it possible to install a standard interface in this mod? because if you accidentally click on the interface itself (not the buttons in it) during the adventure, the game crashes. I saw that some people did this, but I can't figure out if it's possible to turn off the interface separately or i need to completely remove the mod

[Pepijn]

Hello!

I have the Epic Game store version of Spore (with DLCs), and since Origin is discontinued I had to install it with the EA app.
This took me some tries, but I have it working.

Now I have installed the ModAPI and I have gotten some simpler mods working. However, Dark Injection does not want to work. If I install it with all options turned of it properly inserts the feedback button and does nothing else, and when I install any more options the game fails to launch (or crashes immediately, I can't tell the difference). I could not find a log file; but there are files 'Exception Report <laptop name> <date> <time>.txt' that are empty in EA Games/Spore/Spore/SPORE Galactic Adventures/SporebinEP1.

Aside from Dark Injection not working, any forced save mods seem to not work as well; so even though e.g. the Valla custom parts work in the creature creator, I can't save the creations.

Note that I can find several .dll that are dedicated to disk or Steam, but there don't seem to be any EA files. Did ModAPI mistake my setup for Steam instead of EA? (I have never had Steam Spore installed on this PC.)

Does anyone have any ideas for things I can try?

[Maren]

hello hello,

I have been playing spore with the dark injection mod for a while and also added others. Everything was going fine untill original UI from the game started dissapearing, If i selected a UI theme from Dark Injection it would be fixed because it replaces the old UI but it kept getting worse and now my Spore game is prettymuch broken with assets and UI missing all over the place and now also crashing. I don't really know if i can fix this or if i have to get a brand new spore and throw all my old creations in there??

Any help would be apriciated!
thank you for reading!

[Niyo11]

Is there any particular reason why the cell parts don't animate properly on creatures when they're moving? I liked having the lil wiggly parts moving, really adds to early creature stage charm.

[kristianduncan]

Anyone know when the new patch comes out? Can't get the mod launcher to work as the game updated a few days ago