civilization 5 help

I have tried this in Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz i5. (GT330M video card.) It runs like a dog and crashes frequently. With all graphics at absolute minimum settings the game is playable, but you have to remember to save at the end of every turn because the game is likely to crash each time you end a turn.

This occurs in both the Direct X 11 and Direct X 9 version of the game. I'm able to play other games on this system (Starcraft 2 runs fine at medium settings, for example) but Civ 5 is absolutely unplayable.

Hi,

I have a mbp intel duo 2.4Ghz with 4Gb ram, nvidia9600M GT. I've just installed windows 7 64 bits, installed windows drivers from the snow leopard cd and installed steam + civilization 5.

I played with the dx10/11 version of the game. After maybe 6 hours of game I think it crashed twice while I was trying to contact a foreign leader just after loading from a save. I'm playing with minimum video options but the game looks good and is working pretty good except that AI turns are really really slow (>> 1 min)

Think I'm lucky compared to some threads I've read...

I'm running it very well on my configuration, which is using WIndows XP on a Mac Pro. It runs flawlessly.

Try XP instead.

I have a 2.66 Ghz i5 with 8GB of RAM. I'm attempting to run Civilization V using VMWare Fusion 3. After installing and running, however, I can't get past the screen where the leader is being introduced. It crashes out every time. And I can't get the memory to crank past 3GB even thought I maxed the virtual machine's memory usage.

Should I not be attempting to run this on a virtual machine and instead be using bootcamp?

Thanks in advance.

Yes you should run it through Bootcamp.... It'll run just fine. I also tried it with VMWare 3.1 and although it starts, loads, and runs, it's slow as **** and unplayable. Sigh, I hoped to avoid dual-booting.

When I first installed it I also experienced quite a lot of crashes but since a recent update it's been stable. Finished an entire game without crashes 🙂

Ran it in Bootcamp Win7 64, Alu MBP with NVidia 9600m GT, I don't remember my video settings except that I started up the directX9 version but adjust until you're satisfied. It's not an eye-candy game after all....

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Ok I got it running in boot camp and it works perfectly except that when the leader screens come up, I can't see the leaders. The communication works fine with them, but the graphics are messed up or non-existant. Anyone else have this problem/solution? Thanks.