Thread:Wormulon/@comment-5340088-20120728013440/@comment-1073312-20120728090850

I'm not an expert on the technical details of Spore. If the patches aren't updating properly, maybe you need Spore's expansion packs to support them? In fact, reading the wiki's pages on patches, it does advise you get the expansion packs first, or attempts to patch before getting an expansion can cause errors in the game. I think Spore Galactic Adventures already comes with patch 3.

Do you have a choice of downloading patches individually? Maybe try it that way if you can to decrease the size of the download.

You'll probably find better help as the official Spore forums which have some forums dedicated to fixing issues like this.