Get the patch!

[AlanH]

Ah! Sorry . I thought you meant the info in "About Civilization IV ..." in the Mac Civilization IV menu. I should have realised you meant the in-game screen.

 

[bigyunit]

Ah! Sorry . I thought you meant the info in "About Civilization IV ..." in the Mac Civilization IV menu. I should have realised you meant the in-game screen.

i am very, very new to Mac. how do I know if the patch is installed? i tried the advice from two posts ago, but still am unclear, my finder doesn't show the version.

running an Intel core 2 duo, 2.16, 1 GB and still having crash problems.

 

[bigyunit]

nevermind, i figured it out. patch is installed correctly.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

I've just acquired Civ4 for Mac. Playing it for the first time, I notice some of the problems others have been reporting - no combat sound, the music seems to come and go when I zoom in and out. No kernel panics or crashing to desktop yet, but reading this thread has made me worried.

Should I download the patch?

(BTW, I'm running it on a brand new 3GHz dual Mac Pro with 4GB RAM and a Radeon X1900 card, using OS 10.4.8)

 

[promethean_beta]

Should I download the patch?

(BTW, I'm running it on a brand new 3GHz dual Mac Pro with 4GB RAM and a Radeon X1900 card, using OS 10.4.8)

The short answer: Yes.
I'm running the patched CIV IV on a 2.66ghz Mac Pro with 2gb RAM and a Radeon x1900 card, using 10.4.8. It runs just fine.

 

[AlanH]

Absolutely, yes.

I'm on a Mac Pro, as well, but a shadow of your spec - 2.66GHz, 2 GBytes, Geforce 7300GT. It's hard to keep four CPU cores busy

 

[OscarWildebeest]

OK, have successfully installed the patch. Will report back when I have tried it out.

Thank goodness I saw this thread (I think - I hope I'll still be saying that in a few hours!).

 

[OscarWildebeest]

So far so good... although I'm not sure I'm hearing all the combat noises. I'm certainly hearing more than I did before, though.

Why did I choose to try this out on Friday 13th?

 

[Zaimejs]

I notice that I get most sounds... one of the best sounds that never plays is the great artists sacrificial guitar riff. First time I played on a PC that was the joy of the game for me

 

[osutuffy]

This may sound stupid, but I have noticed this terminoly used in mac forums only. May have missed it on pc forums. What is a download mirror (specifically why mirror) and which one do I click on to load, the mirror, the 3D download? Are they the same? I have an intel core 2 Duo. I do have the latest version of OS which is 10.4.8 now, not 7

 

[Gyathaar]

a download mirror is just a place where you can download an identical copy incase the main download server goes down or is slow

 

[osutuffy]

I see, what does it mean when it says choose your mirror and has several cities listed thoughout the US or world?

 

[Welnic]

It means that all of those different places have the same file, you should choose one that is physically closest to you. It just helps spread out the load on the servers. You could just choose any of the mirrors, but using one from Mongolia might not be the fastest if you are in the US.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

After several hours of gaming (and remember that I'm new to Civ4) a couple of strange problems occurring. First, I'm not hearing any sounds when opposition players take on me (when I take on them I hear everything - I think). I don't know if this is supposed to happen (it doesn't zoom in either).

Also, once I got to 1850 or thereabouts, all the units turned black. They went back to their normal colours when they moved, but turned black again once they'd come to rest. I seem to remember someone mentioning a similar problem elsewhere.

I haven't played since the black problem occurred, so maybe a reboot would solve it.

On another note - does anyone know how to skip the intro when the game first starts up? It's all very nicely done, but it does go on a bit long.

 

[Nicci]

escape works

 

[Sam_Yeager]

On another note - does anyone know how to skip the intro when the game first starts up? It's all very nicely done, but it does go on a bit long.

There's an option in the CivilizationIV.ini file to not show them at all.

; Set to 1 for no intro movie
NoIntroMovie = 1

 

[OscarWildebeest]

There's an option in the CivilizationIV.ini file to not show them at all.

Thanks, Sam, will try it. I'll let you all know whether the blacking-out recurs after shut down.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

Update: I played again this morning, and the blacking-out problem did not recur. Oh, and hitting ESC worked for skipping the intro.

 

[s.bernbaum]

I have read this thread and the others here but am now puzzled as to whether or not to update with the 1.61a patch and/or my OSX.

I am running on a G4 MacMini (yes, I know it is below minimum specs but it works okay, although a bit slow). I have a 1.66 Mhz cpu and 1 GB of memory. I have version 1.61 of Civ IV which I purchsed in July. My OSX is currently version 10.4.6.

Until I read these threads, I did not know that there were sounds other than the music and Leonard Nimoy's voice. When I zoom out to see the whole world, usually part of it is red or black, although occassionally it looks fine. When I tried the Fantasy world, it stayed black, although trees, rivers, etc showed on the black as I explored, but only in the area that was beyond the normal map top and bottom. Otherwise I have been playing on the "Random", "archipelago", and "shuffle" maps, all of which work and look fine.

After reading the various discussions of the 1.61a patch and references to problems with OSX 10.4.7, I am wondering if I should update. I haven't found any recent comments regarding the patch and OSX 10.4.8. So, my question is should I be happy as I am, update to OSX 10.4.8, update with the patch to 1.61a, or do both updates?

Thanks.

 

[Skippy_Kangaroo]

After reading the various discussions of the 1.61a patch and references to problems with OSX 10.4.7, I am wondering if I should update. I haven't found any recent comments regarding the patch and OSX 10.4.8. So, my question is should I be happy as I am, update to OSX 10.4.8, update with the patch to 1.61a, or do both updates?

Thanks.

Well you can always roll back the Civ update if it doesn't work out. So I would give that a try and reinstall from the DVD if it doesn't work out.

Rolling back system updates are rather trickier - but why haven't you updated to 10.4.8 for independent reasons?