I've reported this issue with Aspyr where they acknowledged that "We are still investigating the reports of Civ crashing on devices with the Big Sur version of macOS."
I also use a MBP 16, i9 with an 5500M GPU. (the cheaper 4GB version)
Perhaps it's related to this graphics card? You would...
The latest patch did not resolve this problem for me. I “can’t” wait any longer so I’m moving over to a bootcamp installation. Hoping that this will be fixed in a next patch.
the december 17th patch did not mention this issue/fix in the releasenotes.
Thank you again. Last night i tried playing it on a lower resolution but, as you described, sadly no improvement on the freezing issue.
Have you found a way to gracefully shutdown your Macbook? Mine will eventually show all the colors of the rainbow so a hard power down is the only option I can...
Thank you for the updates. I have this same issue and was about to make my Mac dual-boot so that I can play this game when I read your update.
Does the 'scaling down' the resolution suggestion work for you?
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