Spore Creature Creator Problem

[Lydon]

I installed SCC this morning and managed to run it fine a few times. Now for some reason when I run it my monitor switches off (such as when the monitor activates power-saving mode) until I alt-tab out of the game. I can hear the music playing but nothing shows on the screen.

I haven't changed any settings or installed anything new since the last time I played. I'm running the demo. Any ideas as to what the problem could be?

 

[poffle]

the refresh rate ingame might be to high for your monitor. my only guess

 

[Lydon]

Is there any way to change it from outside of Spore? I've tried re-installing it, but it still does the same thing.

EDIT: Managed to fix it by right-clicking on the .exe file, clicking the "compatibility" tab and selecting the option to run it in 640x480 resolution. From there I was able to go into settings and uncheck the "Play in Full Screen" option, after which I could select another resolution from within the game. For some strange reason the problem was that it was trying to run the game at a resolution of 800x600 @ 0Hz!