IF SPORE IS CRASHING FOR YOU A LOT READ THIS - SERIOUSLY, READ IT!

The crashes that also totally hardlocks some peoples PCs when playing spore is due to a bug with audio latency.

This fix totally stopped my crashes from comming every 5 minutes to never a crash again.

You simply need to add:

-jobPriority:0

To the end of the "target" in your shortcut to Spore.

Mine looks like this:

"H:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Sporebin\SporeApp.exe" -locale:en-us -jobPriority:0

You may not have the "locale:en-us" or it may just look different, just add -jobPriority:0 to the end and play Spore without crashes.