j51
Blue Star Cadet
Honestly, I've been running V on my air from 2012 with mods, without any problems and it has the 4000HD chip. Does that bode well?
Civilization 6 for Mac?? Release date?
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I have a macbook pro from 2012 with the 4000HD chips and don't have problems with neither CiV nor BE. But the laptop gets quite hot. I still doubt civvi will perform well though... as long as it starts, I'll play in strategic mode probably.
j51
Blue Star Cadet
Yeah the heat's annoying, but livable.
My air went survived a house fire in 2013 and had to get a new logic board, but V ran fine on it before then even. It's a trooper. (Man I hope 6 works!)
Sorry, but I don’t think you should be too optimistic. I was inspired by this thread to see what titles Feral Interactive is offering.
http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/mac-games/
I also kept an eye out for specs. I saw this a lot (emphasis added):
Civ V and BE also don't officially support the Intel 4000HD. Not that that makes me more optimistic though.
j51
Blue Star Cadet
I am not finding that. See:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/civilization-v-campaign-edition/id439924718
Hit the ...more link.
So the HD4000 is not in the not supported list.
Nor is it in the satisfactory performance list.
Nice to see the CE version being sold on the cheap. Anyone know when that happened?
Let us know how well that works for Civ 6. There's a Retina version at reasonable prices on EBay and that might be just the thing to save me from buying a PC laptop.
I'm hoping it'll be good enough. I think it should be, but I'm waiting til I see some requirements before I pull the trigger.
stealth_nsk
Deity
Or Firaxis may have its own team finally.
Nah, if that were the case they'd been telling us a release date or at least an ETA. Other possibility is that they haven't even chosen a porting company yet, but I think that's unlikely.
I ran Civ V on a minimum spec'd iMac from 2007 and it ran surprisingly decent. Although i didnt buy the game until late so civ was well patched.
That iMac started to slow down so i have since bought a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro and upgraded it. Patiently waiting on Civ VI
That iMac started to slow down so i have since bought a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro and upgraded it. Patiently waiting on Civ VI
Alan Palmer
Chieftain
I ran Civ V on my Mac Mini (late 2012) quite successfully, but as time went by it started to load slower and slower, taking over five minutes usually, despite regular cleaning. Three months ago I splashed out on a top-of-the-range iMac and it runs like a dream. I'm fairly confident it'll handle Civ VI.
God of Kings
Ruler of all heads of state
Alan Palmer, a new iMac would be released either this month or next month.
Alan Palmer
Chieftain
God of Kings, I know. I didn't really want to wait; if I thought that I'd never really buy anything as I'd always be waiting.
iamliberal
Prince
I guess because I don't mess around with mods much, I don't feel the same about Aspyr. In fact, I have been very happy with Aspyr these last several years. I have played every game of Civilization and the ports have gotten better and better and faster over the years and since Aspyr took over the Mac ports. I remember Civ 3 for Mac took FOREVER to come out and was buggy just as long. Forget the name of that first company. Brad Oliver saved the day for us Mac users. Then Aspyr got Civ 4 and went back and re-ported Civ 3 for a gold complete edition if I remember correctly? Anyway, Civ 5 ports seemed faster and sooner and less buggy. And someone from Aspyr sometimes posts (or used to) in the Civfanatics Mac forums with info, don't know if he's still around but I liked that.
Alan Palmer
Chieftain
I'm downloading it on Steam now. 
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