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Error 8016 on Spore

Ser James Acinonyx of Compactis
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So today, I decided I wanted to get back into my good ol' game of Spore. I've had this game work on three notebooks in the past, two of them with Vista and the third with Windows 7.

However, after I installed it on my current computer (see my description of components on my profile if you're curious), I got an 8016 error code. I Googled for a bit, trying to find a solution. But, a few problems arose:

1) Pretty much everyone had the problem on Windows 10, which doesn't help me when I'm running 8.

2) Many told about errors with SecuROM, but I cannot seem to find such a program/app/whatever on my system.

3) The problem has been reported to have happened on GTA V, though that never happened to me.

Does anyone have suggestions for a solution? I installed the game on my E: drive, if that's any helpful, though I have all my games on there because it's the storage drive (games, video software etc.)

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3,5GHz

-Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3i

Motherboard: MSI B150 PC Mate LGA1151 ATX

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4-2133MHz

Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540 White

-Fans: 3x Corsair HD120 1x Corsair AF140L

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW

PSU: Corsair CX600M

Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB SSD (System disk) + Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD (Storage)

Operating System: Windows 8.1
 

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