Can I install the game to two different Macs to play on (not at the same time) ?
Does it matter how I buy it (Steam vs Box, etc.) ?
Yes and no.
Can I install the game to two different Macs to play on (not at the same time) ?
Does it matter how I buy it (Steam vs Box, etc.) ?
Can I install the game to two different Macs to play on (not at the same time) ?
Does it matter how I buy it (Steam vs Box, etc.) ?
1. As long as the Steam client software is not logged in on both machines at the same time (it will automatically log the other user out should this be happening), then yes you can install it on two different Macs. Or a PC and a Mac. Or five computers. It doesn't matter.
2. In the end Civ requires Steam so either the box copies of the PC or Aspyr version will work. Purchases made directly to Steam will obviously work as well. Go after whats easiest for you (download or install from disc) and cheapest as it's all about the game's serial number (google 'steamplay' as this is the same for any other games which supports it).
Also if the question arises, yes you can download the game as many times as you like (unlike the iTunes model which is a once only download)
You are probably right in this case. I actually tried playing this on a quad-core Windows machine with 4GB RAM and a kick ass graphics card and it still wasn't smooth. It doesn't look particularly impressive so I don't see why the requirements are so high... a poorly coded game to begin with I guess. A real shame because the underlying game is probably great, but the poor graphics implementation makes it unbearably slow to play.
The PC version is slow between turns no matter how powerful your computer is. The Mac version won't be any worse.
You are probably right in this case. I actually tried playing this on a quad-core Windows machine with 4GB RAM and a kick ass graphics card and it still wasn't smooth. It doesn't look particularly impressive so I don't see why the requirements are so high... a poorly coded game to begin with I guess. A real shame because the underlying game is probably great, but the poor graphics implementation makes it unbearably slow to play.
I had already purchased this for the pc when it first came out, so I didn't have to pay anything to download this off of Steam. I am using a 2009 13" MacBook Pro with 2 gigs of RAM, and the NVidia 9400M. Aside from some slight lag, it seems to run just fine with everything set at about Medium. So far so good...
I meet the minimum requirements;however, I'm still leery that the game will become choppy as the map opens up...I'm not great with Mac hardware so I'd appreciate any feedback! Thank you!
2.66 Ghz intel core duo processor
4GB 1066 MHZ DDR3 SDRAM
15.4 inch/1440 X 900
NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400M and NVIDIA Geforce 9600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 Memory
I'll have to upgrade to snow leopard to make it so.....
Thanks!
I have a feeling there's probably an awful lot that a game like this has to keep track of. Before I accuse anyone of poor coding, I'd have to ask if maybe the complexity of the game simply forces these kind of system demands? (Ok, perhaps not for graphics-related issues, but the RAM requirement at the very least, I can certainly believe, and quite likely CPU as well.)
Unlike your typical 3D shooter game where no matter how vast the "world" is you can move around in, only the part actually on-screen has to be tracked/manipulated in real time by the computer?
Considering that the "new" features in each release of Civilization are small incrementals from the previous game and that the first one ran on boxes with 640 KB (yes, that's KiloBytes, not a typo) of RAM as a minimum requirement, I'd say not too much. You could have vast armies, large amount of cities, many civilizations in parallele with tons of diplomacy going on and big research trees back in the first game, in an age where 8 MB of RAM was standard.
In the grand scheme of things, the data (non-graphical, non-audio) is nothing. We have small databases here at work that fit in under 512 MB of RAM that are larger than the datasets required of your typical Civilization game.
Apparently according to Aspyr's Game Agent page, Civ 5 is going to be exempt from the weekend Black Friday sale. Everything else is slashed except this.![]()
Apparently according to Aspyr's Game Agent page, Civ 5 is going to be exempt from the weekend Black Friday sale. Everything else is slashed except this.![]()
can anyone confirm if this works or not on a GTX 285? it's not in the supported video cards, annoyingly.
So if you want you can buy the boxed copy of Civ V, but you need a computer that can run windows to do the initial installation onto Steam.