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Civilization IV does not work on MacBook Air

Written by WW from New York

Mar 8, 2009

Aspyr's copy protection/DRM requires you to insert the DVD before you can run the game. Unfortunately, a MacBook Air doesn't have one. Using the Remote Disk feature of the Air does not satisfy Civilization IV and so this game is useless.

Aspyr--you have lost yet another customer. I want to buy your game, but now I am angry and annoyed. Not a good way to build a business.

75 of 118 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

lousy

Written by MC from Edmonton

Aug 24, 2006

I have an 17in macbook pro, with 2gig of ram, runs slow, crashes a lot, and is full of bugs. Patch helped very little. Nothing but an exercise in frustration. Don't waste your time.

58 of 89 people found this useful

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Crashes frequently

Written by DS from Elk Grove

Aug 18, 2007

I love the game, I just hate what it does to my Mac. This thing crashes back to a blue screen. It reminded me of the bad old days on a Windows system. The support page says that the game's requirements are too high for the machines that are crashing. I've got a new aluminum iMac with a 2.4 GHz processor, and a 256 Meg video card; what part of that is too low? Aspyr's support page also says to shut off all sound and drop the graphics to the lowest level. What good is a game with no sound and lousy graphics? I hope Aspyr fixes the bugs. Until then, I do NOT recommend this game.

37 of 52 people found this useful

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Awful Hardware Support

Written by SU from Jamaica Plain

Jun 16, 2007

I love this game, but Aspyr (the company who ported Civ to the Mac) has done a terrible job of keeping up with Apple's hardware. Civ IV invariably crashes within 10 minutes of launching on a new MacBook Pro (with the GeForce video cards). Aspyr claims that the new MacBooks are not supported, though that bit of information is entirely absent from their packaging and website, to say nothing of the Apple Store where I bought them both.

Many people, like myself, have purchased the new MacBook Pro specifically because of its more-powerful graphics chipset. For a major Macintosh game developer to not support the latest Mac hardware is absurd. Surely they had developer-access to the new laptops before they were released.

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Atrocious

Written by IH from Mississauga

Aug 11, 2007

I love Civilization and have played every version from the original. I have even played Civ IV on the my old PC and it is great. I have recently upgraded to a Mac Pro and bought this game and it is truly horrible. Crashes every 10 min or so. Screen corruption during the game. The thing also runs way to slow for a system with the Mac Pro specs. Complete waste of money, if I could return it I would. I beleive Firaxis makes great games but I will never buy an Aspyr port without doing some research first. Aspyr should be ashamed of this port. It obviously was not tested before being released. If I could give it no start I wouldn't. Wasted $100 buying this and the Warlords expansion. Neither work.

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Worked on latest Macbook Pro and then just stopped

Written by JV from Wilton

Aug 14, 2007

Does not work on New Macbook Pro with all the latest software installed. SO no.... Game does not work on the new Macbook Pro. It worked earlier but I rebooted somewhere after installing new software and since then.. completely crashed..

However the time it did work.. it was an excellent and challenging game.. thoroughly enjoyable.

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Bought New Apple Laptop & Civ IV (Yesterday) Completely Fails

Written by BH from Berkeley

Jun 27, 2007

I, unfortunately have to add my name to the chorus of disgruntled purchasers. Yesterday, I drove down to the Bay St. Apple store in Emeryville and bought it, immediately after my new MacBook Pro arrived. I then excitedly began the tutorial. It crashes every time. I play for a little while, say 7 minutes or so then bang, it's all over.

I expected much better.

(MacBook Pro 2.4 ghz, 2 gigs ram.)

Bummer. I hope this doesn't become a hassle. I've heard so many great things about this game!

22 of 30 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Doesn't like my new MacBook Pro - at all.

Written by JD from Minneapolis

Jun 25, 2007

I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro and bought Civ IV as an added treat. The graphics are very cool, but the game quits on me, without fail, every time I play it. It might be in ten minute intervals, might only be eight. I've ended up going back to playing Civ III. Worst part is my brother has Civ IV and it works flawlessly on his PC. Major disappointment.

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Apple should really warn customers

Written by BB from Stanford

Aug 7, 2007

I bought this product with a MacBook Pro over 6 weeks ago, and there is still no fix from Aspyr. If the company thinks it is so low priority to make their hardware compatible with new Apple machines, then maybe Apple shouldn't carry this product in it's stores. At the very least, there should be a notice online and at physical stores that neither civ iv nor warlords works on the new MacBook Pros. Civilization IV is a great game, but there are serious reliability issues with the company that is porting it from PC to Mac.

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Was good until secutity update !

Written by JR from Miribel

Aug 12, 2008

I love the game but since the latest security update it crashes on startup.
Beware !!!

26 of 40 people found this useful

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Doesn't work on MacBook Pro

Written by BT from Memphis

Jun 27, 2007

Crashes all the time on brand new, top of the line MacBook Pro. Dido previous review:

"I love this game, but Aspyr (the company who ported Civ to the Mac) has done a terrible job of keeping up with Apple's hardware. Civ IV invariably crashes within 10 minutes of launching on a new MacBook Pro (with the GeForce video cards). Aspyr claim... Read more >s that the new MacBooks are not supported, though that bit of information is entirely absent from their packaging and website, to say nothing of the Apple Store where I bought them both.

Many people, like myself, have purchased the new MacBook Pro specifically because of its more-powerful graphics chipset. For a major Macintosh game developer to not support the latest Mac hardware is absurd. Surely they had developer-access to the new laptops before they were released."

Get it together, Aspyr.

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I want my money back

Written by RA from San Diego

Feb 9, 2009

I've been playing the Civilization series since the first back on a dos box. I love this game, and hence shelled out $80 for the game ($50) and the expansion ($30) and feel like i've been taken advantage of. I have a brand new MacBook Pro Dual Core 4gb ram. The game will run fine in the early years, but begins to crash every 10min or less in the later years around 1800. awesome. Hey Sid - Thanks for selling me 1/2 a game. After the flop that I think Civilization Revolutions was, i'll seriously stop and think twice about spending my money on a Sid Meyer game again. So sad...

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Complete failure on new MBP

Written by RO from Amsterdam

Aug 3, 2007

Sadly, I have to confirm what so many others have stated: on new MBPs (the ones with NVidia graphics card) the game crashes every 5 minutes or so. Unplayable. If you can, return it to the store immediately. It is truly a shame.

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Does not work on macpro, resource hog on MBP

Written by MG from Portland

Jan 26, 2009

This game cannot run on a year old mac pro - it always crashes, perhaps because it does not recognize the ATI video card. It runs on a similar vintage MBP laptop, but consumes enormous resources, making the laptop almost too hot to hold, and taking longer and longer to calculate moves and draw the world. The technical difficulties are so severe that they make the game unpleasant even if it does run.

17 of 32 people found this useful

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Total Junk.

Written by DB from Hope Valley

Aug 25, 2007

Game could be good but I guess I'll never find out, because it won't even start playing on my intel machine. This was disappointing, Apple typically sells only the highest quality. I thought the software was defective at first, but after an exchange still no luck. This game should be taken off the market.

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DOES ANYTHING FROM ASPYR EVER WORK?

Written by AD from Norfolk

Jun 9, 2008

Okay, call me stupid. Or, call me faithful. I have now purchased three (3) Aspyr ports (Indiana Jones, SW Battlefront and CIV IV) and neither of them worked without SIGNIFICANT time wasted searching around on the website for patches, or some of them didn't work at all. Why does Apple continue to support this junk (I have owned apples for two years)? It is a good thing that I use this MBP for video editing. At least it does this well. Stay away from Aspyr.

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DO NOT BUY!!! Failure on a new MACBOOK PRO

Written by MG from Columbia

Aug 25, 2007

This was the most fustrating experience I have had in years. It made me rethink my Apple purchase. I am returning the DVD and accepting a 15% restocking charge to be rid of this awful program. Please save youself a nigtmare! Do not buy this program.

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Disappointed

Written by LB from alexandria

Sep 4, 2006

The new civ 4 performs horribly on the intel imac. Movement is jerky, sound cuts in and out and at a certain stage in the game the graphics go black. I was also disappointed with the graphics, the game seems like a throwback to pre civ 3. I eventually uninstalled civ 4 and reinstalled civ 3(the classic version of the game). Civilization is my all time favorite game for the pc, so you can imagine, after the long wait for civ 4, the disappointment of being offered shoddy goods. I hope. if there is a civ 5, that everyone involved in the project, will take a little pride in themselves and prove to us that they have the ability to continue to develop quality successors to civ 3.

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