ejday
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Just to put in a flash of optimism, pulling a date out of thin air is so much better than where so many developers seem to pull their dates from...Brad Oliver said:
What will you play Civ4 on?
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Socialist swine
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Does any one know if a G4 Powermac with Dual Processor 533 Mhz will be enough for me to rule the world!!!! Night after night after hour after hour.
Brad Oliver
Civ3/4 Mac programmer
Socialist swine said:Does any one know if a G4 Powermac with Dual Processor 533 Mhz will be enough for me to rule the world!!!! Night after night after hour after hour.
Assuming you're not joking - no, Civ4 will not run on that type of hardware (well, it might, but it would perform horrifically).
Socialist swine
Chieftain
Will there be mods for the mac version? And will the PC mods work on the mac?
Brad Oliver
Civ3/4 Mac programmer
Socialist swine said:Will there be mods for the mac version? And will the PC mods work on the mac?
Civ4 for the Mac should support all the PC Civ4 mods, yes. You should also be able to create them on the Mac.
Will it also support mods with custom dlls made with SDK, or will you have to recompile it for mac...?Brad Oliver said:
Brad Oliver
Civ3/4 Mac programmer
Gyathaar said:
If it works like I suspect, you'll have to recompile mods with DLLs.
That is what I expected... that means that it will be problematic to play multiplayer games between PC and MAC with mods that contains modified DLLs.. since the checksums for the DLL will differ on PC and MAC.Brad Oliver said:
jothoma
Chieftain
Well,
My first MAC was a 1998 Power PC. When that became really outdated 3 years ago I switched to what I could afford at the time, a generic Wintel machine that I could pick up for $400 at Fry's. This computer became out of date quickly and my wife and I used our tax return to finally purchase a new MAC. Of course I bought it with the coming of CIV 4 in mind. I got an IMac 20' and upgraded the memory to 1GB (up from the stock 512MB). I also purchased the upgraded video card to the 256MB (up from the stock 128MB). Since this was the top of the line available (for and IMac at least) I am confident that is should be able to play the new CIV4 when it comes out. You wouldn't think the designers would create a game that only people with the huge MAC machines can play. The only trouble will be that I now am CIV-less until the new game comes out. It doesn't really seem logical to plunk down the $50 for C3C when CIV4 is so close around the corner. Here's hoping my withdrawl symptoms aren't too distracting that I can't function in normal life until the MAC release date.
My first MAC was a 1998 Power PC. When that became really outdated 3 years ago I switched to what I could afford at the time, a generic Wintel machine that I could pick up for $400 at Fry's. This computer became out of date quickly and my wife and I used our tax return to finally purchase a new MAC. Of course I bought it with the coming of CIV 4 in mind. I got an IMac 20' and upgraded the memory to 1GB (up from the stock 512MB). I also purchased the upgraded video card to the 256MB (up from the stock 128MB). Since this was the top of the line available (for and IMac at least) I am confident that is should be able to play the new CIV4 when it comes out. You wouldn't think the designers would create a game that only people with the huge MAC machines can play. The only trouble will be that I now am CIV-less until the new game comes out. It doesn't really seem logical to plunk down the $50 for C3C when CIV4 is so close around the corner. Here's hoping my withdrawl symptoms aren't too distracting that I can't function in normal life until the MAC release date.
Brad Oliver
Civ3/4 Mac programmer
AlanH said:That'll put a crimp on any cross-platform play where we might want to create a common 'approved' mod set with a DLL, including GOTM and SGOTM
You are right. I may have a solution for this though; let me investigate it a little more.
Edit: won't be a problem.
AlexandrNyetski
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20" iMac, Intel Dual Core, 1.5 GB RAM
Thierryr
Chieftain
It's my fist post in this forum, I found this forum today actually. I own CIV III Gold edition for Mac and I will be getting CIV 4 as soon as it comes out (I beleive this week). I will be playing this game on this machine:
MacBook Pro 2GHZ, 2GB RAM 100GB HD, Iogear Bluetooth Mouse GME225B with this video card: ATI, RadeonX1600 with 256MB RAM.
I have one quick question I was wondering if CIV display will be widescreen to fit my laptop? I was a little bother by the square display of action on CIV III, and yes I will search the forum to see if I can find any info regarding this question.
Thanks
Thierryr
MacBook Pro 2GHZ, 2GB RAM 100GB HD, Iogear Bluetooth Mouse GME225B with this video card: ATI, RadeonX1600 with 256MB RAM.
I have one quick question I was wondering if CIV display will be widescreen to fit my laptop? I was a little bother by the square display of action on CIV III, and yes I will search the forum to see if I can find any info regarding this question.
Thanks
Thierryr
Hi, welcome 
I'm 99% certain that Aspyr will have designed the game for the wide screens that come on all Macs (except minis) these days. Rather few Macs that were sold without wide screens even meet the minimum CPU/video requirements.
I'm 99% certain that Aspyr will have designed the game for the wide screens that come on all Macs (except minis) these days. Rather few Macs that were sold without wide screens even meet the minimum CPU/video requirements.
XxtraLarGe
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Dyeus said:
I don't think that computer even reaches the minimum system requirements for Civ 3 Complete, does it?
In any case, I'll be playing this game on my 1.67 GHz Powerbook. I have 1 GB RAM & a 128 MB video card. Won't run it perfectly, but it'll run
Thierryr
Chieftain
Good news, Thanks both.
I just pre-order the game from Amazon.com. There web site stated that the game will be available June 30. There e-mail confirmation said that the shipping date will be between July 09 and July 16 for an arrival between July 14 and July 24 (I got free shipping) for a total price of $49.99.
It's a long time considering that Aspyr ship the game yesterday to the merchant, but I suppecting that Amazon is playing it safe, the game will probably arrive before that, will see.
Thierryr
I just pre-order the game from Amazon.com. There web site stated that the game will be available June 30. There e-mail confirmation said that the shipping date will be between July 09 and July 16 for an arrival between July 14 and July 24 (I got free shipping) for a total price of $49.99.
It's a long time considering that Aspyr ship the game yesterday to the merchant, but I suppecting that Amazon is playing it safe, the game will probably arrive before that, will see.
Thierryr
