anyone running the game with Catalina?

[Balton]

Anyone experienced any problems with running the game on Catalina?
I have a late 2019 MBP Pro that came with Mojave installed. I haven`t yet upgraded to Catalina from fear of not being able to run Civ6.
I would appreciate any feedback.
Many thanks in advance...

 

[oakdragon]

Anyone experienced any problems with running the game on Catalina?
I have a late 2019 MBP Pro that came with Mojave installed. I haven`t yet upgraded to Catalina from fear of not being able to run Civ6.
I would appreciate ant feedback.
Many thanks in advance...

I could give you all the ins and outs of the bugs as it stands currently, but for now, I’ll just say yes, it works, with caveats and give you a better update after the coming patch tonight.

 

[oakdragon]

There was a small patch which I installed. Graphics seem about the same, though about 10 fps faster with Metal than it was before, so that's good. I still get some tearing over ocean tiles at the bottom of the screen when I zoom all the way in. It still won't run in fullscreen with Metal, also, which sucks. I tried an old gamefile first which crashed while trying to load, so I had to start a new game for testing.

Also, more importantly, The Season Pass only seems to be available for Windows at the moment.

 

[Balton]

Thanks for the feedback. I read somewhere that some people could not even start the game, and had to do some modding/coding to get around it. Something to do with permissions and 64-bit support. But at least you are running the game, and that is what I was after. So I will wait for your heads up after the new frontier pass.

 

[Zaimejs]

I have been running it in Catalina mostly fine. For some reason, my 2014 imac likes to get hot and crash when overloaded... but the game runs on a new Macbook Air and my old Macbook Pro (albeit not very well). The biggest issue is that we cannot run full screen using Metal... and no one is doing anything about this.

 

[lc15]

I had major issues getting Civ 6 to work with Catalina for months (in fact only after revisiting the problem today did I manage to fix it)... As you say it's to do with permissions - The game would get stuck on verifying and never open, to fix it I followed the following process.

Civ6 requires "Input monitoring" permissions. - Open system preferences - security and privacy - input monitoring - add Civ6 to the list manually. (I also added Civ6 to Full Disk Access in the security settings too as some posts suggested it needed that also.)
After that find the actual application within the steam folders and open it from its folder (do not open it via steam) - after a long verifying process it should start up.

Presuming you did have any issues of a similar sort, this should hopefully fix it for you too.

 

[Rajendran_P]

I'm using Catalina and have used my own customised earth map (150 x 80 ) and played till 634 turns before the game crashed. My opinion is that the game can be played in Catalina. If I were to use the Civ 6 map, probably could have played the game till the end. I am waiting for the latest DLC before trying a new game with Civ 6 native map and hopefully, all turns out well.

 

[FlyinPhil]

I've been running in Catalina since it came out. I started with Metal, but switched to OpenGL so I could get full screen. The only issue with OpenGL is the text that shows number of turns on cities (like turns left on production or turns until city population growth) doesn't have the black outline, so in certain conditions, its very hard to read (civs with light team colors, like Pericles' Greece). I have no issues with crashing or anything.

 

[jpsoto]

I'm running Catalina (10.5.5) on MBP 15'' 2018 and got these results... After the patch, performance got improved big time!

 

[Balton]

I'm running Catalina (10.5.5) on MBP 15'' 2018 and got these results... After the patch, performance got improved big time!

Great. I suppose I can upgrade to Catalina now without any hesitation. Thanks for all the feedback...