The Mavericks OS 10.9.4 on Sandy Bridge HD3000 with resolution 1600×900 failed to load Spore game – the screen stuck at black with a cursor only. It doesn’t happen with Ivy Bridge HD4000. The way to fix this is to change the “fbobackbuffer” from “0” to “1” in the config file. To access the config file, we need to un-hide the “library” from the user – the software is Minecraft mac helper.
library –> Preferences –>Spore Prefereces –> config
