Hi there. I just downloaded Civilisation 5 from steam (for Mac OS X) and I noticed that even though the game's running on a nearly top-notch iMac (2.8 GHz i7 processor, ATI HD 4850 4GB RAM etc.) I still can't select maximum quality for leaders in the graphics menu while I can set everything else to "High" (by the way, is "High" the highest setting?). Is Civ 5 running in some kind of emulator or was the code written from scratch? In either case, has anyone else experienced the same issue, and if yes, does anyone know wether Aspyr is going to release a patch addressing this and any other potential issue in the near future? I thank you all in advance.
Civ 5 Mac Leaders
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AspyrRyan
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The Leader Quality setting being capped at Medium is not a bug. It's a result of the PC version that the Mac one was ported from.
Civ V is a native port, and is not running in an emulator.
As for a patch for that issue, it is unlikely to be resolved unless it's also resolved on the PC side. We'll be releasing a patch based on the upcoming PC patch, but I have no ETA for that at this time.
Civ V is a native port, and is not running in an emulator.
As for a patch for that issue, it is unlikely to be resolved unless it's also resolved on the PC side. We'll be releasing a patch based on the upcoming PC patch, but I have no ETA for that at this time.
Thank you very much for your quick reply. However, a new question arises: why was it capped in the first place?
The high quality settings for leaders (unless for the rest of the game) use some special technologies, which are not available at Macs, that's why :/.
AspyrRyan
Prince
My guess is that the High quality used some features of DirectX 10/11, and wouldn't work in Direct X9, which is the version the Mac port is based on.
Aha, I see. So we won't be seeing top quality leaders in Civ V Mac for a long time, eh?
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