Bring it! Let's hear the joy! :D It shipped Monday. You're copy is making its way to your front door. :)

just got the notice that it has shipped from MacGameStore
will it arrive before I go on vacation?
will I make the plane? or stay home and wallow in Civ4?
stay tuned!

anyone know where the macgamestore is located?

Still hasn't shipped from Amazon... I'm jealous.

Should have just gone to comp Usa.

Same here, just got a my notice from MacGameStore shipping it out. It shouldn't be more than a couple a days now.

Still hasn't shipped from Amazon... I'm jealous.

Should have just gone to comp Usa.
Unless your CompUSA can bribe their distributor chain, you'll still get it from Amazon before it gets anywhere near CompUSA shelves. Man... they are so bad!

Yeah... they are awful, but... well... yeah. ;(

Fedex says mine should arive Friday June 30th, man its going to be a good weekend!!

Just checked Glendale Apple store... So far, nuttin'

Wouldn't seriously expect it before friday... but I had to ask.

Good news from Amazon!

Hello from Amazon.com.

We are pleased to report that the following item will ship
sooner than expected:

"Civilization 4 DVD-Rom (Mac)" [DVD-ROM]

Good news from Amazon!

Yes that is a good news, I just got the same message this morning. My order history sais it will ship tomorrow.

I do(n't)! I do(n't)! ;)

Someone (http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26228&st=0&#) over at IMG has picked up a copy at CompUSA. Installing now.

CURSES!!! I SHOULD HAVE GONE THERE>>. would have saved shipping charges too. What was I thinking :(

Hopefully Amazon can get it to me next week. It is not as if "shipping" (I live in Seattle about a 30 minute walk from Amazon HQ and a warehouse) should be too time consuming.

I wonder where this "tw0k1ngs" lives. Southern California? It would be too good to be true...

I wonder where this "tw0k1ngs" lives. Southern California? It would be too good to be true...
I do not know where he lives but here in Portland OR they do not have it at CompUSA, I called this afternoon and they said Web order only :sad:
Thierry

Got it! Today at 4:14. Ordered through Amazon, one day shipping. I'm playing as the Egyptians on the easiest level- got to start somewhere, right? :D

@meaghanchan: Welcome to the forum. What hardware are you playing on?

My Amazon super saver shipping now says "shipping soon," so hopefully it will ship tomorrow.

Shipped from Amazon! Will be there when I get back from visiting family (where I currently am) - on the 3rd.

@meaghanchan: Welcome to the forum. What hardware are you playing on?

Yeah, right! We won't be hearing from him for days! :lol:

Hmm. I pre-ordered on June 18 via second-day mail ... odds are, my copy won't be among the first sent out. Oh, well.

AlanH: I'm on a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5, with 1 GB RAM. It's a fairly new computer, just about a year old. And so far it's running fine, although I haven't gotten into the late game yet- I'm taking a quick break at 920 AD right now. Thanks for the welcome! I posted here a couple times on the Civ III board, but mainly I just lurk. The advice and everything here is awesome!

Oh, and bio_hazard: Not that it matters, but I'm actually a girl. Yes, I know, one of the few... But what can I say? The whole series of games is awesome. And I'm only posting right now because I have to balance my Civ addiction with my internet addiction!

The first step is admitting that you have a problem, meaghan... and you've taken that step. Congrats!

Oh, and bio_hazard: Not that it matters, but I'm actually a girl. Yes, I know, one of the few... But what can I say?

:hatsoff: Howdy ma'am.

Btw, it matters. Now, we've got reason to spruce this here place up a bit. ;)

meaghanchan is the [civ3mac] :queen: of [civ4]!

Welcome meaghanchan! :)

I pre-ordered from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. I must not rate very high over there--I haven't heard a thing. I mean, I didn't sign up for Amazon Prime because I wanted help developing patience!

I guess for now I am stuck with wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'. :religion:

Oh, and bio_hazard: Not that it matters, but I'm actually a girl. Yes, I know, one of the few... But what can I say? The whole series of games is awesome. And I'm only posting right now because I have to balance my Civ addiction with my internet addiction!

Ooops- my bad! :blush: And yes, welcome to the forum!

So how's the game look so far?

Unfortunately I won't be buying for a couple of weeks, until after this grant deadline is over...:cry:

...I guess for now I am stuck with wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'. :religion:
And C-IV now includes religions! You're in luck!

My local Apple retail store didn't have it but Compusa did.

I just got home with my copy that I picked up at the Apple Company Store in Cupertino. In the process of installing now!


Yippee!!!!

not yet, though I am waiting with great anticipation ... amazon said they shipped today! and UPS says the shipment has been picked up from the seller's facility ...

German reseller Arktis will start shipping to customers on July 03rd., 2006

Got mine yesterday. Thank you, Amazon. Preordered with slower free shipping, but I've learned that it can be the fastest way with a preorder since they use the US Mail and I'm near their shipping point.

Yes it DOES work on a MacBook (so far). Wonder if it's because of the lack of some sounds?

gfeier: really? What has your experience been with your MacBook so far? I have a MacBook as well and was waiting for other's approval of performance before I made the leap too!

:yup: Picked mine up yesterday (July 1) afternoon at CompUSA (Minneapolis) after no success at an Apple store. First game is fun so far although it is becoming noticeably sluggish (iMac 1.9 GHz G5, 1 GB RAM) -- enough to send me here to read what others are saying.

Hi, welcome! :wavey:

The other, and probably most important, thing you can tell us about your Mac is what video card and video memory it has.

Hello 'AlanH', thanks for the welcome. My iMac has a ATI Radeon X600 Pro video card with 128 MB VRAM.

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Hi, welcome! :wavey:

The other, and probably most important, thing you can tell us about your Mac is what video card and video memory it has.

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:yup: Picked mine up yesterday (July 1) afternoon at CompUSA (Minneapolis) after no success at an Apple store. First game is fun so far although it is becoming noticeably sluggish (iMac 1.9 GHz G5, 1 GB RAM) -- enough to send me here to read what others are saying.

Picked up my copy today July 3, 2006 in Bellevue, Washington. Had to inquire about it for it was still "in the back" and not on store shelves yet. All the CompUSAs in the Seattle area should have received it, according to there stockroom worker.

Just got mine.. just now. DHL brought it to the post office. I thought I'd have to wait two more days, but they had it for me behind the counter!

Installing. Hopefully I'll have exactly the same problems as everyone else.

Installing. Hopefully I'll have exactly the same problems as everyone else.
:lol: Good luck.

I'm hoping for completely new and original problems (dang, this is too smooth! What can be done about that?). Not holding my breath, though...

mine arrived this afternoon. installing now.

the twitching is getting worse. 6 more minutes....

BTW, does anyone know if I can just image the DVD and mount it to play or is this one of those "dvd must be in the drive" games?

is this one of those "dvd must be in the drive" games?
I'm pretty sure this is the case, since it's Aspyr policy.

It arrived today in the mail and it plays reasonably well on a dual 2GHz G5 with a Radeon 9600 64MB card, of course that is at 1024x768 with low details.

Some early thoughts - it doesn't seem possible to stop the tutorial and restart it where you left off, I can't figure out if I can control the camera zoom or not, and not having played CivIII but going from CivII to CivII there are many differences in gameplay and rules to figure out.

Got it, installed, playing. First impressions on performance in the "first impression" thread.

Just got back from work and it was here waiting for me, And with tomorrow off, I plan on disappearing till wednesday morning.

Mine came this morning.
I was really excited because it was supposed to ship on the 13th. :)

It works beautifully on my MBP, for those who would like to know.

Edit: And that's with substandard graphics performance (http://www.apcstart.com/site/tgaden/2006/07/563/do-you-need-to-update-to-os-x-1047-again) due to the Intel 10.4.6 update, apparently. (If you have an Intel Mac, click this link. It's important.)

I'm pretty sure this is the case, since it's Aspyr policy.
Though you can just pop it out after the game has loaded by hitting the eject key.
So it's only in there for half a minuteish.

That's a really relieving thing to me, actually, because whenever a disk is in my MBP's SuperDrive it likes to spin forever. And it's one loud drive.

If any one cares- they were stocking Civ4 in the Emeryville, CA AppleStore yesterday when I went in to buy a disk maintenance program. Applestore seems to have a pretty strict policy in terms of returns, so I'm waiting to hear from the first Powerbook user to get it working before i shell out the $50.

German reseller Arktis will start shipping to customers on July 03rd., 2006
Arktis has rescheduled: new date for shipping is July 11th., 2006. :cry:

Here is some feedback: 20" Intel iMac, 1.5 GB RAM ...

Graphics/sound/playability so far good, though I have yet to proceed much into even the ancient era.

It has crashed the OS once - some sort of video card issue - in about 30 minutes of play time.

They're going to have to patch this thing.

I got back from work yesterday and received an empty envelope from Mac Game Store. Noooo! They even stole my receipt... :mad: Luckily the good folks down at macgamestore.com sent me out a new copy. I guess I’ll have to wait another couple more days to play civ 4. :(

Hello-
I loaded mine yesterday evening (Amazon), and it gives me an error (XML Load Error) when I try to run on either my 1.33 Ibook, or 1.25 Powerbook. Anyone else have this problem? I know these are sub-par machines, but does that cause the error, oris their hope?
Pete

I doubt if the XML Load Error is a performance issue. More likely the way you have it installed. I think you said in another thread that you have it on an external drive. Does the error message give any more information? Or do you get a crash report in /Applications/Console ... Logs ... ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Civ4 ...

Note that you'll probably get no support from Aspyr for trying to run it on that level of hardware.

Thanks, AlanH, I solved my startup problem, it was all me.
In my zeal to see if it would run, when I dragged to my external drive, I moved only the game app, not the folder, so it couldn't find the resources.
Once I corrected that omission, it now runs. At least it runs as you might expect on a too-slow machine with only 512MB ram. We'll see if it will last into the late game.
It is good to find that one can play on the g4 platforms that so many of us have.
Pete

But Anyways,
I got Civ 4 today, and installed on my lovely mac:
iMac G4 800mhz
32mbVRAM nVidia GeForce 2MX
512 mb SDRAM
And it Ran!
Albeit terribly slowly (roughly 1 fps). Spock Spoke, and all was well.
I believe I will shelve this beauty until Apple releases the iMac Merom/Conroe, and Aspyr patches the major things you all are griping about.
Until then,
promethean_beta

My copy of Civ IV arrived Thursday, and the computer capable of playing it will arrive mid-week next week. Odds are, I won't even bother installing Civ IV until I'm familiar with the ins-and-outs of the new Intel iMac.

Other folks' experiences with Civ IV have been immensely enlightening, however.

Gatekeeper

I purchased the game at the Apple store last night. My system does not meet the minimum requirements. My specs are:

PowerMac G4 1.25 Ghz
64mb Radeon 9000
768 mb or Ram

I was trying to hold off on getting the game until someone else with my same system specs posted results. So I guess I'm the quinea Pig. My expectations were low but I could not help myself. The game is running better than I expected. I played on a small map my first time with all setting set to low. I played for 8 hours straight. the game ran about the same speed 8 hours in as it did in the beginning. I'm sure the endgame will slow dow quite a bit. But, for someone who used to play Civ II on the playstation Im familiar with extreme slowdown. I just wanted to play. I love this game. Hopefully the future patch will optimze performance for me as well as everyone else who meets the system specs. By the way I'm have all the same sound problems as everyone else. If you have a system close to mine and arent really in it for all the eye candy. It is playable(At least half way through).

Hi Mac friends, I've joined the civ4 club :D

It was funny, I was checking my bookmark to the Civfanatics Mac forum, and wondering lately "why isn't anyone posting on civ4?".. only to realize the game released last week and civfanatics created a new civ4 mac forum! lol

Anyway, bought the game 2 nights ago at Apple Store in downtown San Francisco (they had plenty of them). When I discovered this forum and was reading about so many of your posts, I got worried about performance (all I read were frustrations, no one enjoying the game). I can add my experience after playing a bit, it runs slooow indeed.

I have:
single 1.8 Ghz G5 powermac
1.5 GB RAM (I had upgraded)
ATI Radeon 9600 with 256 MB vram (I had upgraded)

I figured the game would start fast and get slower as time goes, but instead the game was agonizingly slow on the very first turn (& the tutorial). I have settings set to low, but just moving a settler 1 square drives me nuts. I find clicking on "go to" helps with that. Funny thing though (and similar to the personw that posted with the g4), things are not slowing down (it's 840AD now). It seems like the problem is generating the whole map at once.

Despite the slow performance, the game is really fun. I'll post in first impressions forum..

happy civing everyone!

For me the game doesn't slow down as you get deeper into the game, it's slow right from the beginning and doesn't really change.

I figured the game would start fast and get slower as time goes, but instead the game was agonizingly slow on the very first turn (& the tutorial). I have settings set to low, but just moving a settler 1 square drives me nuts. I find clicking on "go to" helps with that. Funny thing though (and similar to the personw that posted with the g4), things are not slowing down (it's 840AD now). It seems like the problem is generating the whole map at once.




This is probably unrelated, but I had a similar problem when trying to play PC Civ4 on my laptop with an underspec video card. My computer actually had a harder time when you only knew part of the world map compared with when it knew the whole map when revealed through the worldbuilder (or when you had traded for the whole world map, or had the tech Satellites). Something to do with knowing what to black out and what not to... This had the unforunate effect of the video card not being able to draw any of the terrain until the whole map was known! :crazyeye: I actually finished one of the first GOTM's this way- but it really was more of a chore than it should have been, and I uninstalled not too long after that...

Got mine a couple of days ago and still haven't got the hang of it yet, I'll hang in there for a while but I can honestly say I can't get used to how slow my cities improvemnts/wonders take to construct, I guess I need to read the instructions as i must be missing something (my brain?). I found II & III much easier to get into, maybe I'm just getting old but I really craved a game of Civ II/III :(

I have it as of today. Can't say I am super thrilled at the moment having played the Windows version and suddenly wondering "Why the hell is it so quiet" when I was playing and realizing the sounds were not there.

Hydromac, there is an option when starting a new game to shorten the build time on everything so that the game moves faster, that may help for your play style ;)

Guys, Im so addicted I dont even want to spend the time to write my first impressions in the forum... lol

Wow! Notification today that my copy has shipped from MacGold UK :D

Wow! Notification today that my copy has shipped from MacGold UK :D
well, you were right about amazon...not a peep out of them about my preorder yet.

That's why I thought it might be useful to post the news. If you're in the UK, consider cancelling Amazon and reordering on MacGold.

Civ IV has landed!

Not really played it properly yet....seems fine with all setting high and anti-aliasing at 2...so far.

Doesn't want to play music...but will play custom music no sweat.

Will report progress later.

Would kinda feel bad if it worked perfectly...only so bad though:mischief:

Doesn't want to play music...but will play custom music no sweat.

That strikes me as one of the most useless options they could include. I guess it is just another PC legacy.

Option A) Create a folder filled with the music you want Civ IV to play and rename it so that it plays in the order you want it. Remember to modify this folder every time you want to change the music you listen to.

Option B) Use iTunes in the background with all its built-in jukebox abilities.

Hmmm... such a hard choice.

Keep your hair on:blush:

a) Playing in the window gets on my tits
b) I only want certain tunes that are appropriate to the game in my mind (e.g. The Who)
c) I like some of the in-game music
d) I like the choice

Amazon UK are now showing it as in stock....and mine's on the way, Can't wait to try out the bugs.....sorry, gameplay. (Still, I remember running the original Civ on an Amiga that couldn't cope with the animations then....marching troops would suddenly vanish from their 2D cartoon background).

Keep your hair on:blush:

a) Playing in the window gets on my tits
b) I only want certain tunes that are appropriate to the game in my mind (e.g. The Who)
c) I like some of the in-game music
d) I like the choice
Still got my hair :)
a) You can cmd-tab between application in full screen mode as well
b) You can make and manage a custom playlist in iTunes much more easily than in Civ IV
c) Add it to your iTunes library and include it in your custom playlist
d) I'm glad I have the choice to use iTunes

Vive la difference!

I just picked this up at the Apple Store in Cupertino and was pretty dissapointed to find the performance issue everyone else sees on my 1.67/1 GB PowerBook.
Perhaps I should've read these forums first but so far it's so slow I'd almost rather stick with Civ3.
I sure hope these guys can get a performance fixing patch out soon!

Mine arrived this morning.
And now - I'm gonna test it.....

Good luck Mac.

My big grant application is officially submitted, so I took some time this morning to head down to the Emeryville, CA Apple Store and pick up Civ4. The clerk said "Oh! I spend WAY to much time playing this game!" :lol: I asked him about performance, and he said he has the cheap Macbook with 512 ram. He says its a bit slow and has had a few crashes, but was otherwise really happy with the game.

I'm at work now- although my DVD is mere inches away, I can't install it now :cry:

(I'll have it on a 15" Powerbook 1.5, 1gb, ATI 9700 64mb- should be ok for smaller maps with low graphics...)

You had to submit a grant just to buy the game? :)

You had to submit a grant just to buy the game? :)

Just about! :lol:

Actually, if we get the grant I know we'll be getting a MacBook Pro for work, and my salary would go up so I'd likely get some new hardware at home too. Unfortunately we won't know until October or November. :(

Truthfully, knowing my willpower, it would have been a bad idea to get the game when I had something that important to do. Now I have about a week before I go to France when I don't really have too much high priority work on my plate, so except for girlfriend time I should be able to get some good civving in.

[Edit- couldn't resist- plugged in headphones and installed on my powerbook at work. music seemed ok on intro videos. Videos had low frame rate, but did not stutter in the way they did on my Presario. Argh! I just want to go home and play!]