Problem: Gray graphics on Mac

[AkisKalaitzidis]

I log on and in main view i can't see anything, in strategic view the game plays ok and when i try to go back it crushes and exits steam. I am running steam on windows vista (on a Mac) other games i play have no problems. see attached pic. any suggestions?

 

[Moss]

Moderator Action: Moved to technical support

Hopefully you'll get a more full answer here.

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

thanx

 

[The_J]

And welcome to CFC .

Please tell us what graphics card and processor is in your computer.
And please enable the windowed mode (can be done in one of the .inis in My Documents\My Games\Civ5) and lower...everything in the graphics settings.

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

It is a Mac OS X
2.66 intel i5
4 gig memory
(fairly new)
and I'm running W7 not vista and i can't seem to locate the my docs folder or the info about the graphics card...
thanks

 

[The_J]

mmhh...was about the drivers?
And you can also change the things in the ingame graphics menu, that should not be a problem.

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

I tried the ingame graphics but no go.
I also noticed that the dix10and11 version crashes imidiately upon pushing the button (i don't know if it means anything besides i;m not supposed to be running these versions).
also i found the doc folder but the only graphics file is a text file and i have no idea what to change and what not to give you an example:

[LeaderheadSettings]

; Leader quality bracket
LeaderQuality = 0

; Enables leaderhead shadowing
EnableShadows = 0

; Allows use of SM4.1 codepath (if supported)
AllowSM41 = 0

; Allows use of SM5.0 codepath (if supported)
AllowSM50 = 0

; Resolution used for cube shadow map. Please use a power of two.
CubeShadowResolution = 0

; Reference aspect ratio for which leader content is authored (should default to 16/9).
TargetAspect = 1.777778

; Controls formatting for displays not matching target aspect. (0 => maintain widescreen FOV. 1 => No letterbox)
AspectAdjust = 0.000000

; Resolution of skin scattering buffers. Please use a power of two.
SkinResolution = 0

; Skin quality level (0=no subsurf,1=cheap subsurf,or 2=expensive subsurf).
SkinQuality = 0

; Enables depth of field
EnableDOF = 0

; Enables bloom/glow effects
EnableBloom = 0

; Enables post-process distortion (heat haze, etc)
EnableDistortion = 0

; Allows leaderhead MSAA, on DX11. If this is enabled, the game will use an FP16 swap chain (slight perf. penalty). Note that you may not get AA. Some DX10 HW does not have FP16AA support.
AllowLeaderAA = 0

; Enables soft fire shadows in leaderhead scenes. Only supported in the SM4.1 codepath.
EnableSoftShadows = 0

; Maximum number of scenes to keep in memory. If there are more than this many, then they will be swapped in and out on demand
MaxResidentScenes = 1

; Reduction of leader texture size (0=full size, 1=half size, 2=quarter size)
LeaderTextureReduction = 0

; How much of leader textures to stream in after entering leader scene (0..6)
LeaderTextureBackgroundLoad = 0

; Whether or not to use static screenshots of leaders (this is the default for min-spec machines)
UseScreenShots = 1

[GraphicsDetailSettings]

HDStrategicView = 0

OverlayLevel = 0

 

[The_J]

Please take a look at this thread.

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

Thnx brotha
may your PC run righteously...

 

[civ_king]

I log on and in main view i can't see anything, in strategic view the game plays ok and when i try to go back it crushes and exits steam. I am running steam on windows vista (on a Mac) other games i play have no problems. see attached pic. any suggestions?

increase graphics settings, had this problem on MB (switched to strategy layer anyway)

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

Unfortunately i see no change even after i followed your advise and changes the graphics and the problem with changing from the strategic view to normal is still there, it crashes immediately....

 

[Methos]

and i can't seem to locate the my docs folder or the info about the graphics card...
thanks

On the Mac side

1. click on the apple icon in the top left corner of your screen
2. click 'About This Mac'
3. in the pop-up box towards the bottom, click on the 'More Info' button
4. in the left column one of the options will be 'Graphics/Displays'; click it

What does it say?

Have you tried running it in DivX 9 mode? That's what I do, though I'm running Vista on my partition.

 

[AkisKalaitzidis]

This is my mac Dx9 works only on strategic mode Dx11 not at all

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM111.0034.B02