Quick question(please don't hate me, but it's about Mac)

[FaveDave]

I am successfully running Civ V on my Mac Pro Quad Core Xeon with Boot Camp and Windows XP SP3.

It installed easily and is running great at moderate video settings.
Yay!

 

[The_J]

It would be nice if you could give detailed instructions about that.

 

[civ_king]

It would be nice if you could give detailed instructions about that.

open Macintosh HD->Applications->Utilities->Boot Camp Assistant
then it walks you through it

 

[FaveDave]

Details?

You install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp. (For help, go to the Apple site). I'm using XP service pack 3 -- that's the minimum required.

Then you buy Civ V however you want -- store copy or Steam download (although that's problematical with their crappy servers).

Boot your Mac into Windows and install it.

That's it.

I have 8 gigs of RAM, but Windows only sees 2 (a Windows problem, not Mac). But it's running very speedy anyway. Video is good. I cannot select AntiAliasing for some reason, but I don't care. If you install Vista or Win7 maybe that would be better. I dunno.

What more details do you want?

 

[Quueg]

I'm running Civ V on Medium settings with 2X AA on a new MacBook Pro via Boot Camp. The performance so far has been very good, though I haven't yet played very long. I assume I will get some slow down as the game goes on and more civs pop up, etc., but I've been very pleased so far.

I have the high-end model (2.66 GHz i7), but I think the graphics card (GeForce GT 330m) is likely to be the biggest bottleneck and it's common to all the new MacBook Pro models. So I assume my experience should be fairly typical.

I did download the latest 330m drivers from the Nvidia website.

 

[The_J]

It would be helpful if one of you both could open a thread about this here and maintain it (would get stickied).
It seems that 25% of the problems here are coming from bootcamp, and i can't help with that in any way, so please.

 

[civ_king]

I'll do it!

 

[The_J]

Thanks .

 

[civ_king]

Thanks .

Done
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=381094

 

[casualassassin]

So apparently my university's bookstore has to sell at retail price as of last week. I can't afford $119, I'm joining Kappa Sigma next week.

Halp!

 

[cecilbturtle]

Forget Parallels, Crossover, etc. and just run under bootcamp...

 

[casualassassin]

Forget Parallels, Crossover, etc. and just run under bootcamp...

I can't drop $112 for Windows 7 home, and that's all they have. Well, they have Pro

 

[civ_king]

If you are running A Mac Pro get the Professional version, if you don't then get Home Premium (Home Premium has a 16 GB RAM limit)

 

[coffee junkie]

I can't drop $112 for Windows 7 home, and that's all they have. Well, they have Pro

But some are successful with Bootcamp and Windows XP SP3 ---> maybe less expansive than Windows 7 ?!

Thanks Civ_King for this new thread !

 

[peter grimes]

Hey, fellow Mac users. Here's what I did last night:

1. Downloaded free 7-day trial of CrossOver Games from CodeWeavers.
2. Installed on my iMac (3.0GHz, 2G RAM)
3. Downloaded Steam client (for windows)
4. Opened CrossOver, ran the installer for Steam
5. Signed up through the Steam interface, and downloaded DEMO for Civ5
6. Successfully PLAYED a few turns of the demo!

However, there are some graphics glitches, as you can see in the screen shots. The fog is all graphite hexes, the terrain textures are a mess, and I think the UI is confused about the resolution, since it's only using about half the screen.

I plan on spending a few hours this evening trying to figure out what's going on. I'll also try to take some actual screen shots for you all

EDIT: PS - I forgot to mention that there is a semi-serious problem when launching the demo:
There's a little window that pops up where you choose to run under DX9 or DX10 (or something like that).
After choosing, the dialog box flashes a couple of times, and resets.
So I click again... and again... and again... eventually the screen goes completely white (no dock or anything) except for a large black box in the upper left of the screen.
After about 20 seconds the Main Menu for the Demo pops up.

 

[coffee junkie]

Thank you very much peter grimes for this and the pictures ! Very instructive. And thank you to all fellow mac users for sharing their experience

However, there are some graphics glitches, as you can see in the screen shots. The fog is all graphite hexes, the terrain textures are a mess, and I think the UI is confused about the resolution, since it's only using about half the screen.

as often with ported games ...

 

[civ_king]

Document it and send it to Codeweavers so they can fix it helping us get on step closer,

Good Day Sirs

 

[peter grimes]

Here's a link to a web album of screenies from my latest attempts at getting the demo to display correctly.

I found that changing the resolution had a big effect (1920 x 1200 @60Hz on my 27" iMac), but other things, like running everything HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW had just about no effect.'

Oh, and here are the specs of my machine:

Spoiler :

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.53f13
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID: D4EA59E4-3413-5467-BDA0-7EF89D29D5

GRAPHICS:

ATI Radeon HD 4670:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4670
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9488
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B8030F-260
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.383
Displays:
iMac:
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
Connection Type: DisplayPort
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected