Civilization Specs

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Civilization Specs

Hello, I recently downloaded the demo for Civilization IV. I have a Macbook 2.0 Ghrz, and 1 GB of Ram. when I luanched the demo, it says that the game will not run on my hardware specs. However, when I visited the Apple site where I downloaded it from, all the specs seem to match up. I want to buy this game, but if the demo dosnt work, than the game won't either. Could someone please have a look, or If someone knows from their own experiances that the game works, please tell me! all replies are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Pete

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Oct 12, 2006 12:09 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 12, 2006 12:52 PM in response to Petey121

Petey, sorry to say this, but the MacBook doesn't meet all the requirements. Civilization requires the "ATI Radeon 9600 or Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 or better." The MacBook's video card is the Intel GMA 950 graphics processor. For Civilization IV to run the computer needs to have its own dedicated graphics card. So, do go out and buy it.

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tcdm1972

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Oct 12, 2006 10:24 PM in response to Petey121

I dl'd the demo too - tried it - and won't work properly. I actually played the game - but graphics were distorted - many spots not showing anything - just unplayable. I wonder if the Window's version would work on my WINDOWS XP partition

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dwb

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Oct 13, 2006 4:13 AM in response to Petey121

It looks like Aspyr yanked code out willy nilly, probably to keep the download as small as possible. It won't run on my MacBook either but I have the actual game installed on it and runs pretty well with graphics set pretty minimally. Near the end of a long game things get a big slow, otherwise it works fine - I have 2GB but I'd guess 1GB is the secret number.

On my G5 desktop the demo looks odd - the fog of war doesn't seem to go away as I explore. Again, the real game is just fine. The demo did run fine on a G5 Mac Mini - so I'm guessing it was fine tuned for that.

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Petey121 Author

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Oct 13, 2006 6:23 AM in response to likearockstar

You mean don't go out and buy it?

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Petey121 Author

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Oct 13, 2006 6:25 AM in response to tcdm1972

I am still waiting to partition my HD. But thats a thought....

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Petey121 Author

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Oct 13, 2006 6:27 AM in response to dwb

So its safe to say that if I buy the game it will work, just slowly? Also what about the previous Civilization Games, like Civ III?

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dwb

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Oct 13, 2006 6:41 AM in response to Petey121

Civ III isn't as graphics intensive - but is there a Universal Binary patch? I played Civ III on my brother's computer but wasn't impressed enough to buy it so I dunno what its spects are.

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Queg

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Oct 13, 2006 7:19 AM in response to Petey121

Hey Petey, I hven't played the demo, but I have the full version and it plays excellent on my Macbook. I have the same specs as you do and it runs great. Just one time I had this huge game going and near the end, it lagged a little. The sound sometimes is screwy, but that could just be the crappy speakers in the Macbook. So, anyways I'd go and buy it.

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Petey121 Author

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Oct 14, 2006 6:52 AM in response to Petey121

I will look into buying it. Thanks for your help in telling me that Civ IV won't work, and Civ III will!

Pete

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