Civ 4 on 8600M Officially Unsupported

[Zillion]

Dang I love CIV 4, still playing it on my PC now with The Beyond The Sword expansion, but I was planning to buy a Macbook Pro after MacWorld expo. This is bad news for me, I guess I need to run dual boot anyways.

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

Dang I love CIV 4, still playing it on my PC now with The Beyond The Sword expansion, but I was planning to buy a Macbook Pro after MacWorld expo. This is bad news for me, I guess I need to run dual boot anyways.

More ways than one, I don't think Beyond the Sword is out for Mac yet.

 

[md63]

Civ IV runs fine on my Mac Mini but crashes on my MBP 2.2GHz. Is the video card the problem? Why aftere 6 months couldn't they fix the problem?

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

Did you install all the patches?

 

[thumper]

Oh crap,

i just got my 2.4 MBP and wanted to get Civ 4

it doesnt work on mac, but will it work if i got the PC version and
boot camp to xp?

 

[QCassidy352]

Why aftere 6 months couldn't they fix the problem?

Civ IV has been a trainwreck from the start, from a software design perspective. It's buggy, bloated, and far slower than it should be. Which is to say, if they did such a crap job to begin with, why would you expect them to fix bugs? Aspyr could learn a few things from blizzard.

 

[booksacool1]

Civ IV has been a trainwreck from the start, from a software design perspective. It's buggy, bloated, and far slower than it should be. Which is to say, if they did such a crap job to begin with, why would you expect them to fix bugs? Aspyr could learn a few things from blizzard.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Its soo friggen bloated. When you get on to a big map, late game, you notice the fans come on when you end turn.

It never crashed on my dell, but sure did take up the cpu.

 

[marclapierre13]

That is terrible grammar the customer service rep. uses.

 

[user7]

Blizzard Games

Not sure about all Blizzard games, but WoW plays great... once I had download all the current patches.
Plays at great frame rate, I've even hooked it up to my 1080p tv and at 1080 resolution I still get about 25-30fps... Runs much higher fps on the native 1440x900 with everything cranked to high.

 

[QCassidy352]

Not sure about all Blizzard games, but WoW plays great... once I had download all the current patches.
Plays at great frame rate, I've even hooked it up to my 1080p tv and at 1080 resolution I still get about 25-30fps... Runs much higher fps on the native 1440x900 with everything cranked to high.

well that's great and all... but Civ IV is not a blizzard game... and nobody was talking about WoW... 😕

 

[blackstar]

I downloaded the macbook software 1.2 update and it seemed to help a little but my machine still slows down.

Also it makes my video card temp rise to 80 degrees; is this going to be harmful to my machine?

Still no update?

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

No I don't think it will be harmful but why play it under a Mac? Macs don't even have the Beyond the Sword expansion. Boot Camp or something and play it under Windows. It's just less hassle.