Civ4 native to mac?

05-13-2010, 06:22 AM

I'm wondering if Civ4 is a native mac port and if it was done well. Is it buggy as hell or does it play reasonably well?

Sambo110 · 05-13-2010, 06:32 AM

It is a native port. Apparently it runs pretty bad but I am not sure on that.

Badtux · 05-13-2010, 08:49 AM

It's a native port, it's existed for some time but not sold via Steam (obviously!), and it runs as well as the Windows version runs, with the exception that it throws up a "Your GPU is not supported!" error on hardware that works just fine with the Windows version (thinking about the Macbook 2008 edition, which had the Intel Santa Monica GPU, as vs. the nVidia chipset/GPU they moved to in 2009). But if it's recent hardware that has the words 'Nvidia' or 'ATI' anywhere in the System Profiler from your Utilities folder, Civ4 runs quite well, thank you.

tokeio · 05-13-2010, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by mobilehaathi

I'm wondering if Civ4 is a native mac port and if it was done well. Is it buggy as hell or does it play reasonably well?

Just to be perfectly clear, Civ IV Mac on Steam is the Aspyr developed Mac port from years ago including all the expansions as well as Civ IV Col. Same game, just now on Steam. This includes any performance issues from the past as well as original system requirements from the DVD editions of the games.

RABicle · 05-13-2010, 09:56 AM

The Aspyr versions? Yuck.

05-13-2010, 11:57 AM

The BtS 3.19 port is actually very stable, Warlords was hideously bad but BtS makes it much much better now. So if you played Aspyr's Warlords when it was a buggy POS....don't take that as the case now.

RUSBoris · 05-13-2010, 12:15 PM

Civ 4 Mac worked fine for me. Performance was fine, too. But I didn't play much, not my style of game.

They have a demo on their website somewhere you could use to gauge the performance and stuff

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05-13-2010, 06:32 AM	#2
Sambo110 Join Date: Nov 2008 Reputation: 25 Posts: 642	It is a native port. Apparently it runs pretty bad but I am not sure on that.

05-13-2010, 08:49 AM	#3
Badtux Join Date: May 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 24	It's a native port, it's existed for some time but not sold via Steam (obviously!), and it runs as well as the Windows version runs, with the exception that it throws up a "Your GPU is not supported!" error on hardware that works just fine with the Windows version (thinking about the Macbook 2008 edition, which had the Intel Santa Monica GPU, as vs. the nVidia chipset/GPU they moved to in 2009). But if it's recent hardware that has the words 'Nvidia' or 'ATI' anywhere in the System Profiler from your Utilities folder, Civ4 runs quite well, thank you.

05-13-2010, 09:56 AM	#5
RABicle Join Date: May 2010 Reputation: 18 Posts: 123	The Aspyr versions? Yuck.

05-13-2010, 11:57 AM	#6
Andrewicus Guest Posts: n/a	The BtS 3.19 port is actually very stable, Warlords was hideously bad but BtS makes it much much better now. So if you played Aspyr's Warlords when it was a buggy POS....don't take that as the case now.

05-13-2010, 12:15 PM	#7
RUSBoris Join Date: Feb 2005 Reputation: 8 Posts: 835	Civ 4 Mac worked fine for me. Performance was fine, too. But I didn't play much, not my style of game. They have a demo on their website somewhere you could use to gauge the performance and stuff