Screen weirdness on new MacBook Pro NON-retina

[SlowWalker]

I am getting pulsing bars across the upper part of the screen in Civ 4 Warlords on my new Mac.

The bars do NOT appear in the preliminary screens, but once I am on the game map they appear. This is true for games that worked fine on the old Mac and for games started on the new one. The game otherwise appears to be playable, but I have not stayed in a game for more than two minutes because something clearly is wrong. I had NO problems like this on the old machine.

I was thinking about buying the downloadable version of Civ 4 Complete from Aspyr, but not if it is not going to work properly on my new Mac.

Do any of you have ideas on how I can fix this?

Thank you for your time

Civ 4: 1.74
Warlords: 2.13

Old Mac
MacBook 2008 (White Plastic)
2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
GMA X3100 144 MB
1 GB RAM
Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8

New Mac
MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (Non-Retina)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB
8 GB RAM
Mac OSX Lion 10.7.4

 

[SlowWalker]

I sent this same request to Aspyr support.

Their response:

Aspyr Technical Support, Jul 09 10:31 am (CDT):
Since the Intel Intel HD 4000 was released after Civilization IV Warlords, it has not been tested or developed for that hardware and is not officially supported. Once this is updated, it will display in the system requirements.

Aspyr Support

My response to their response:

I just checked the system requirements for Civ 4 complete and Civ 5 game of the year. "NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported"

I have been playing incarnations of Civilization since at least the late 1990s. I may have been playing since the early 1990s, I do not really remember.

I guess that I am done playing it now.

Bye.

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome

Have you disabled anti-aliassing in graphics options?

 

[SlowWalker]

By "disabed anti-aliasing" do you mean setting it to zero?

I have tried setting anti-aliasing to 0, to 4, and to 16.
I have tried setting screen resolution to each of the three options.
I have tried setting graphics level to high, to medium, and to low.

Nothing has helped.

I think Aspyr is serious when they say "not supported."

Any other ideas?

If I did this correctly, then a screen shot should be attached to this post.

 

[AlanH]

By "disabed anti-aliasing" do you mean setting it to zero?

Yes.

I think Aspyr is serious when they say "not supported."

Any other ideas?

If I did this correctly, then a screen shot should be attached to this post.

Looks like it. Fall on their mercy and see if they are prepared to do anything about it.

 

[drmartin]

I have the new (2012) Macbook Air with the Intel 4000 integrated video and I have the identical problem. Did you find a solution? The game is basically unplayable for me.

 

[BillyCuth]

Ugh. I just pulled the trigger on a 2012 13.3" MBP which was going to be my first Mac ever. If what I am reading sticks, I just wasted my time. Going to return it and either go with an Alienware laptop or upgrade to a 15" 2012 MBP with discrete graphics.

 

[Utensils]

Try turning off full screen mode. This worked for me. You can see the dock in main play, but pressing option-command-d will hide it

 

[AlanH]

In Dock preferences, you can set the dock to auto-hide until you move the cursor to its screen-edge. That's my normal mode of operation.

 

[kailashseo368]

I run Snow Leopard on my old Macbook pro and have a similar thing if I load Warcraft 3. Not necessarily a problem with Mountain Lion... though I could never figure what was going on there either. The programs could be forcing the OS to load a custom ICC profile, but I can't see how that could be anything but detrimental if you're using a calibrated display already.