Civ IV Warlords on a Macbook Air

[AlanH]

It doesn't *play* from the DVD. It just uses the DVD to do a copy protection check at launch. You could launch the game before leaving home, and then, as long as you only sleep the MBA, keep it charged, and don't turn it off, you should be able to continue playing with the DVD disconnected. Of course, I haven't tested this.

 

[fwaltman]

It doesn't *play* from the DVD. It just uses the DVD to do a copy protection check at launch. You could launch the game before leaving home, and then, as long as you only sleep the MBA, keep it charged, and don't turn it off, you should be able to continue playing with the DVD disconnected. Of course, I haven't tested this.

Bad choice of words on my part -- I had thought about this but if I needed to shutdown anywhere along the trip, I would be SOL.

 

[Matthew5117]

I am having the same problem... except I have a Macbook. It also has the GAM X3100 chipset model too. Along with that, when I try to turn on the grid in the early game (like in the first ten turns) it crashes. So, it is not happening to me in the middle of the game. Has anyone gotten a solution yet?

 

[AlanH]

Deleted. Apologies - I responded to a post on the previous page without noticing the thread had moved on.

 

[Matthew5117]

I am having success? Not really... unless you're (AlanH) are talking about fwaltman. It doesn't look like he didn't have success either.

 

[dixonbm]

Has anyone played the windows version of CIV IV BTS on a new revision 2 MacBook Air? I'm thinking of buying a MacBook Air, but running CIV IV is a *MUST*!

 

[dav_id]

I see it's been more than a month since the question, but maybe this is useful to someone anyway.
I recently upgraded from a MacBookAir rev 1 to rev 2; my wife and I play civ4 single- and multi-player using it and my 1st gen, 2006-era MacBook Pro. My observations:

1. The MBA rev 2 does much better!
MBA rev 1 would barely run Civ 4 with minimum graphics settings -- slow response, lags, etc.
MBA rev 2 runs pretty well with medium graphics and low-res BlueMarble mod (+ a collected bunch of other mods I've patched together -- which I think adversely affect the stability of the game)

2. MBAr2 graphics capability is decent, but heat-limited. High Graphics + BlueMarble highres run for maybe 45 min, and then the game responsiveness slows a lot as the machine throttles back due to heat output.
Side note: I think BlueMarble highres is responsible for most of this. MBAr2 ran decently with high graphics but w/o BlueMarble. We just can't give up our lovely gorgeous BlueMarble world!

3. The 3-year-old MBP soundly trounces the MBAr2 -- and it keeps me nice and toasty in my cold house! (this thing gets seriously warm -- serves me right for early-adoption)

4. The need for the DVD to start the game drives me nuts!

cheers,
d

P.S. -- anyone in the market for a slightly used MBAr1? Runs great!

 

[dixonbm]

dav_id,

Are you running Civ IV in windows on your MBAr2 or are you running the mac version? If it is windows, are you running XP or vista?

Thanks! By the way, how much are you asking?