Lion Compatibility?

[johnnychemo]

Anyone know if the new release breaks Civ?

 

[AspyrRyan]

I had no problem running Civ 4, Warlords, or BTS. Please let me, or our technical support know if you do.

 

[Xyth]

I can confirm that the disc version BTS seems to be working fine for me under Lion.

 

[johnnychemo]

Cool, thanks!

 

[AlanH]

I can confirm that the disc version BTS seems to be working fine for me under Lion.

Same here (in developer GM copy of LIon)

 

[johnnychemo]

Finally got a chance to get a little playtime in, and the D2D version of BTS works ok.

 

[bigmac44]

I am experiencing crashes with the Steam version of Civ IV BTS on a 2010 13" macbook air. Almost never crashed under snow leopard

 

[Erich]

I've played Civ4 BtS from Steam under Snow Leopard on my iMac without trouble, but I just bought a new 13'' Macbook Air and downloaded Civ4 to it from Steam as well but on the Macbook Air it's far from trouble free.

- When I start it up in its original graphic settings it more or less works ok. The only problem is that any and all trees on the map are flickering. When I zoom in on them I can see that the flicker is caused by lots of white pixels on the trees. Almost like interference/ noise on an old TV. JUST on the trees, everything else is fine. Very strange.

- As soon as I change any graphics settings requiring a restart (changing overall graphics from low to medium for instance), after the restart the game is totally screwed up. I get through all the settings screens alright, but at the final point of initialising the new game, when the screen is supposed to start showing the map, it just stays on the initialising screen. I can hear the sound of the new game in the background, just no map. Fortunately I could set the graphics settings back to low from the initial start up menu, but it's very weird. On the iMac when I do higher graphics settings I may get lower frame rates, but not this freezing up.

Since others have reported that the disk version of Civ4 seems to run fine, it seems that the problem is some combination of the new Airbook hardware and/or Lion and/or Steam.

Anyone any ideas or any solutions?

 

[Erich]

Oh yes, trying to load a mod into BtS also causes the above freeze problem.

 

[AlanH]

Anyone any ideas or any solutions?

Tell Aspyr?

 

[robzig214]

I have the disc versions of 4, Warlords & Beyond The Sword. I was holding off upgrading to Lion because I was scared I would lose the ability to play.
It's happened to me before, when I was on a windows machine, my favorite game was Close Combat, which ran on Win 95. I upgraded to XP and that game is not supported and still isnt usable on any windows system.
The Lion upgrade looks slick to me, but I've been burned in the past.
I also have Civ 3 Complete, any word on that?

By the way, it's nice to be here. It's a really nice site.
I am a total Civ newb, I just got my first Civ for Mac game last week.
I had been playing Civ Revolutions on my PS3, and quite liked it.
Civ 4 blows it's doors off though, naturally, but I still play Revolutions regularly.

 

[Keath]

I recently installed Lion and replaced a defunct graphics card with the ATI Radeon HD 6850. Now, when I open Civ Beyond the Sword on my MacPro, the screen hangs on the 'init Engine' with the blue bar 2/3 loaded. I don't know if this is caused by Lion or the video card. Does anyone have thoughts on this?

 

[AlanH]

Do you have the following setting in
~/Documents/Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/CivilizationIV.ini ?

; Enable the logging system
LoggingEnabled = 1

If not, try setting it, and then look at the PythonErr.log file at:

~/alan/Documents/Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Logs/PythonErr.log

If there's any text in that file after you have tried to launch BtS, copy it here and it may give a clue.

 

[Keath]

There are 8 files changed by logging in but the PythonErr.log is empty. There is a PythonErr2.log which contains info from today. Here it is:

.......

load_module CvEventInterface
load_module BugEventManager
load_module CvEventManager
load_module CvUtil
load_module traceback
load_module CvScreensInterface
load_module CvMainInterface
load_module ScreenInput
load_module CvScreenEnums
load_module time
load_module BugDll
load_module BugUtil
load_module ColorUtil
load_module BugCore
load_module BugOptions
load_module BugConfig
load_module BugInit
load_module BugPath
load_module BugConfigTracker
load_module BugTypes
load_module sets
load_module xmllib
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/xmllib.py:9: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete. Use xml.sax instead.
16:47:37 DEBUG: BugConfig - registering xml handler BugConfig.RootHandler
16:47:37 DEBUG: BugConfig - registering bug handler BugConfig.BugHandler
16:47:37 DEBUG: BugConfig - registering load handler BugConfig.LoadHandler
16:47:37 DEBUG: BugConfig - registering config handler BugConfig.ConfigHandler
16:47:37 DEBUG: BugConfig - registering arg handler BugConfig.ArgHandler
load_module configobj
load_module validate
validate import failed
load_module BugOptionsScreen
load_module BugErrorOptionsTab
load_module BugOptionsTab
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod Core
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod MainInterface
load_module CityUtil
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod NJAGC
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod Scores
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod CityScreen
load_module ReligionUtil
load_module FontUtil
load_module MonkeyTools
load_module PyHelpers
load_module AStarTools
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod PLE
load_module UnitUtil
load_module PlayerUtil
load_module TradeUtil
load_module DiplomacyUtil
load_module AttitudeUtil
load_module GameUtil
load_module Scoreboard
load_module DealUtil
load_module BugUnitPlot
load_module ReminderEventManager
load_module Popup
load_module SdToolKit
load_module cPickle
load_module autolog
load_module CvModName
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod Autolog
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod Reminder
load_module CvAppInterface
load_module GGUtil
load_module GPUtil
load_module ProgressBarUtil
load_module RawYields
load_module CvTechChooser
load_module TechPrefs
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod Advisors
load_module CvForeignAdvisor
load_module math
load_module CvExoticForeignAdvisor
load_module IconGrid_BUG
load_module DomPyHelpers
load_module TechTree
load_module FavoriteCivicDetector
load_module CvReligionScreen
load_module CvCorporationScreen
load_module CvCivicsScreen
load_module CvVictoryScreen
load_module TechUtil
load_module GameSetUpCheck
load_module AutoSave
load_module MapFinder
load_module MapFinderStatusScreen
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod MapFinder
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod AutoSave
load_module Buffy
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod BUFFY
load_module CvEspionageAdvisor
load_module SpyUtil
load_module BugScreen
16:47:37 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod BetterEspionage
load_module CvOptionsScreen
load_module CvReplayScreen
load_module CvHallOfFameScreen
load_module CvDanQuayle
load_module CvGameUtils
load_module CvUnVictoryScreen
load_module CvDawnOfMan
load_module CvTechSplashScreen
load_module CvTopCivs
load_module random
load_module CvInfoScreen
load_module CvIntroMovieScreen
load_module CvVictoryMovieScreen
load_module CvWonderMovieScreen
load_module CvEraMovieScreen
load_module CvSpaceShipScreen
load_module SevoScreenEnums
load_module CvWorldBuilderScreen
load_module CvWorldBuilderDiplomacyScreen
load_module CvDebugTools
load_module CvDebugInfoScreen
load_module CvMapGeneratorUtil
load_module CvGFCScreen
load_module CvPopupInterface
load_module CvScreenUtilsInterface
load_module CvOverlayScreenUtils
load_module CvDotMapOverlayScreen
load_module CvStrategyOverlay
load_module SdToolkit
16:47:38 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod StrategyOverlay
load_module CvScreenUtils
load_module InputUtil
16:47:38 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod CustDomAdv
16:47:38 INFO : BugCore - creating uninitialized mod TechWindow
init-ing world builder screen
load_module CvWBPopups
load_module CvCameraControls
load_module CvAdvisorUtils
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'PreGameStart'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'BeginActivePlayerTurn'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'SwitchHotSeatPlayer'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'LanguageChanged'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'ResolutionChanged'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'PythonReloaded'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'unitUpgraded'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'unitCaptured'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'combatWithdrawal'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'combatRetreat'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'combatLogCollateral'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'combatLogFlanking'
16:47:38 DEBUG: BugEventManager - adding event 'playerRevolution'
PY:OnInit

 

[AlanH]

Running MacBUFFY, I see I guess this might get in the way of progress in your SGOTM14 adventure ... [Of course it won't - you'll be playing that in Windows ]

No, there's nothing unusual there.

While it is hanging, you *could* try opening /Applicaitons/Utilties/Activity Monitor.app and selecting BtS. Then click Sample Process at the top of the window. That should produce a text file after it has taken a sample of the program's activity. We could have a look at that.

My guess is that there's some incompatibility between the Lion graphics driver for that card and BtS, but it would be interesting to know if anyone is running BtS successfully on the card - in any OS X version

 

[Keath]

I believe the card is only compatible with Lion. I tried the Activity sample but the file is very long and I don't think the server accepts these text files. I found little that might help when I scanned the file. I could load it up in chunks but this is not an emergency as I have other options.

Thanks for having a look. I'm sure there will be a firmware update as there are some other issues like the dysfunctional option-key on startup.

 

[coffee junkie]

About Lion ...

It seems there is no problem of compatibility. Running BTS is ok, modding tools ( such as Nifskope, Aorta, Squish-dds ) runs fine but ...

I get a font problem. Before my update to Lion, BTS showed me the serif regular font : sylfaen.ttf and now, it shows the no-serif arial.ttf

Should I mannually install sylfaen.ttf inside one of my fonts folder ( system library - library - user library ) ???

Any clue please ? Thanks

 

[coffee junkie]

Really ? .... No clue ?

me neither but as I used onyx to clean my caches ( including fonts caches for all applications inside the Mac ) well ... The usual typo came back by itself in Civ4.

 

[Skowza]

I'm having problems in Lion, I just installed last week and I get the following error when I try to launch BTS:

Initalize Renderer failed. Check DirectX Installaion, Latest Graphics Drivers and Graphics Settings
Parameters
- width = 1440
- height = 900
- flags =0xc
- hwnd = 0x26823a0
- adaptrid = 0
- deviceid = 3
Error:Creation failed: Invalid Adapter

I'd really appreciate it if anyone can help me...

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome

Have you tried holding down the Command key as you launch Civ4, and switching to window mode or changing the graphics resolution?