Comments on: Civilization 5 Mac System Requirements

By: David

David — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:12:23 +0000

The AMD rig I built in 2009 with a phenom II x6 and a radeon 5850 in it plays this game like a champ at max settings at 1920×1200. Min frame rates can get choppy at times but I’m averaging well above 35 with all of the eye candy enabled. And when I built the thing all the parts cost less than a grand – less than any macbook pro. I’m thinking of upgrading to a radeon 7970 or 7950 so if anyone wants a 5850 hit me up.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:57:44 +0000

Does anyone know of any mac book that will run this game?

By: Yiannis

Yiannis — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:33:05 +0000

Couldn’t get it to work on mine

By: chris

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:47:46 +0000

I wonder why u all bother apple for this piece of sh* software… apple manufactures great hardware and also great operating systems that handles the highly professional software for design, music and video quiet easy! it´s not apple who made this game and if it would be optimized i´m sure it would even run on my old g4 in the hood!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:01:30 +0000

I bought it after all, and it works.

MacBook, 2.26 GHz
10.6.6
GeForce 9400
so not a fancy machine

Works fine when I play on the hexagonal map setting, but very slow when I play on the graphic/sprites map setting, the time to render the map, terrain, units, etc. takes forever, but I don’t care for that map setting, in fact I find it confusing, for me the hexagon map works well.

We played a 2 players multiplayer game, Large Map (10 civs + 20 City-States and Pangea) up to turn 200, then my MacBook crashed and we couldn’t go further.

But we played many, many, and I mean many hours on a standard map setting (8/16) and it went fine, although some turns take a while to process, especially in the later game (turn 300+) you just have to be patient and let the computer work. We would just let it do all its computation during the AI’s turns) and then play/click when it was out turn, it was working great, but if you clicked like mad all the time, it gets a bit overworked.
It crashes once in a while, nothing too dramatic.

So it *is* playable, in the hexagonal map setting, if you don’t mind it, and are patient: some turn end takes a while to compute, you have to let it work!

By: RF

RF — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:43:54 +0000

Just bought ‘brand new’ MacBook Pro with 2.2 GHz Quad-core i7 processor and AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics card with 1GB video memory…works smoothly at default graphics settings, but wow…within 15min of playing the computer is heating up and the fan is going crazy???

By: jb

jb — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:54:35 +0000

yah, don’t by this. I have a 2 yr old MacBook Pro, which does meet the min. requirements, but the came runs pretty bad, even at the lowest settings.
I also have a window installation on my pro, and the windows version runs like a breeze.
This isn’t about what the game requirements, it’s just awful programming

By: wrk

wrk — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:56:32 +0000

Do not bother buying this pile of garbage, it pretty much won’t install on a modern mac.

who formats their disk as case-effing-sensitive? it can’t run on a case insensitive file system???

it’s amateur hour at aspyr

By: didyikes

didyikes — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:10:07 +0000

MacBook Pro 2009 (Ithink),
Intel Core 2 Duo 2,5 GHz
4GB Memory DDR2 SDRAM
GeForce 8600M GT, 512 mo

Slow as f*ck. I could play for a few hundred turns (biggest world, marathon – the longest game type) and the game would eventually crash 100% of time at the same point. All video settings to slow or inactive when possible.
70% of the map was still hidden, Only 4 civilizations revealed.
This is ridiculous. I can play Dragon Age on this machine…

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:30:03 +0000

Tested on MBA 11″ 1.4Ghz, GT320M, 2GB RAM – very very very very very slow !!! – even the intro clip doesn’t play – only sound play

Tested on my MBP 15″ 2.53Ghz Quad, GT330M, 4GB RAM, better but very unplayable – slow slow slow

Aspyr did a bad job on porting this game, probably they are using Transgaming or some kind of technology to emulate DX9. I hope they give us a native port in the near future.

By: Vilian Royce

Vilian Royce — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:43:48 +0000

Civ 5 mac *unplayable*, small map, all settings LOW or OFF, only 5 cities. Using the following machine config:

Macbook Pro
Mac OS X 10.6.6
2.5GHz Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
GeForce 8600M GT 512MB

Not worth launching atm, runs faster in a windows VM using Parallels (LOL)

By: VINCENT

VINCENT — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:10:49 +0000

I have a bandnew Macbook Air with 4GB Ram and 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, just wonder if it meets the min. requirements for CIV 5

By: gille

gille — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:50:10 +0000

My spec:
Processor: 2.4 GHz intel Core 2 duo
Memory: 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Snow leopard 10.6.5

And the game runs painfully slow… at low settings. Got not other program running, just the OS and Steam.
That’s not cool.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:18:17 +0000

Also considering buying it – GeForce 9400, MacBook 6,1, just below the minimum recommended. I don’t mind the ‘fancy’ graphic, as long as I can play.

From what I read above, the game is playable, no? No in high-res, but it’s playable, isn’t it?

By: GreggorTwo

GreggorTwo — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:37:00 +0000

Just received Civ 5 as a present. Will not run on my MacPro 1,1 – Quad Core 2.66 with a Radeon x1900 (512 MB)

3-4 Years after manufacturing, this machine is STILL a beast – I cannot believe that it won’t run this game.