Run on an mac mini?

[Stumpyguy]

Hey, My friend wants to buy cIV for the mac, (I've got a pc) and I'm not sure if he can run it. I'm a bit confused with whether he can run it or not, and I'm unable to find it anywhere in these threads, so sorry if its a repeat.

He's got a Mac Mini, bought about a year ago, I know it has extra memory and is a 1.8 GHz. Anyone able to give me any ideas if he can run cIV? Otherwise, I may never be able to get my room (and more importantly, my cIV) back....

 

[s.bernbaum]

Does he have the PowerPC G4 or Intel Mac Mini? If it is the PPC G4, yes he can. That is what I use. If it is the newer Intel based Mac Mini, I don't know but I seem to recall someone saying that there was a problem with the compatibility of the integrated graphics chip.

 

[Sautespawn]

I've got a macIntel mini with a 1.83g processor. The game runs fine but you need to disable the warning about the grapics (can't remember how -sorry). And don't expect stellar performance.

 

[Bazzalisk]

It won't work well on any mini, but it will run.

 

[peter grimes]

The game runs fine but you need to disable the warning about the grapics (can't remember how -sorry).

All you need to do is edit the config file: CivilizationIV.ini, found in Users/[yournamehere]/Documents/Civilization IV

Open it in TextEdit. The sixth entry* will read:

; Don't show minimum specification warnings
HideMinSpecWarning = 0

Change the 0 to 1, press cmd-s, and you'll never see the warning again

*If you still didn't find it, just cmd-f minimum [that's the only instance in the whole file ]