Can i play Civ IV?

[MrEasyChillz]

I'm new to this whole Mac/PC gaming thing. I just got Steam and Portal, and it works great. I have played Civ IV at my friends house (on his PC). It was really fun, so i want to buy it. Before i buy it, I want to be sure it will run on my Mac. I'm not sure if will. Can anyone help?.

here are the requirements for Civ IV:

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Leopard)
Processor: PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 3.5 GB free disk space
Video Card: (ATI): Radeon 9600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 5200
Video Memory: (VRam): 64 MB or higher
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
Media Required: DVD Drive Supported Video cards: NVIDIA GeForce 5200, 6600, 6800, 7800 ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X850, X1600

Recommended:

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Leopard)
Processor: PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset
CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 3.5 GB free disk space
Video Card: (ATI): Radeon 9600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 5200
Video Memory: (VRam): 128 MB RAM
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
Media Required: DVD Drive Supported Video cards: NVIDIA GeForce 5200, 6600, 6800, 7800 ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X850, X1600
NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive).



And this is the mac i have:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP5

Any help would be awesome.

[FuzzyPuffin]

Yes, you can run it.

[TheSomian]

but it will not run really well since you don't have a real video chip.

[FuzzyPuffin]

Yes, you will have to run it on low, probably. My friend who I play with gets along with a GMA 950 which is a lot worse.

Your graphics card might have trouble with Colonization, though. It has significantly higher requirements in comparison. I haven't tried it on your GPU, thugh, so I can't say if it will run well. Why is there such a disparity between the Windows and Mac system requirements? Sheesh.



Minimum:
o OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.1
o Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
o CPU Speed: 1.83 GHz
o Memory: 1 GB RAM
o Hard Disk Space: 1 GB free disk space
o Video Card: (ATI): Radeon X1600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 8600
o Video Memory: (VRam): 128 MB
o Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
o Media Required: DVD-ROM Drive
o Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard

Recommended:
o OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.1
o Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
o CPU Speed: 2.4 GHz
o Memory: 2 GB RAM
o Hard Disk Space: 1 GB free disk space
o Video Card: (ATI): Radeon X1600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 8600
o Video Memory: (VRam): 512 MB
o Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
o Media Required: DVD-ROM Drive
o Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard
o Supported Chipsets: ATI RADEON X1600, X1900, 2400, 2600, 3870 NVIDIA GEFORCE 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800, 9400, 9600, GT 120
o NOTICE: Apple original CPU’s only, CPU upgrades not supported.
o NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.
o NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)

[MrEasyChillz]

I don't really care that much about the graphics, so this should be fine. Thanks for the help guys.