Remember when games were the quintessential thing that didn't have steep hardware requirements? Man, I miss those days. It's hard to believe game designers can survive targeting only the best machines on the market. Oh well... I loved Civ3, but I guess I won't be playing Civ4 any time soon. Bummer.

The system requirements are indeed a bit hefty for the game. But it may be quite popular among buyers of the Intel iMac.

What I want to know is whether this will run on a Macbook, or do I need to go for a MBP or iMac.

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What I want to know is whether this will run on a Macbook, or do I need to go for a MBP or iMac.

According to the specs listed, this game will run much better on an Intel iMac or MacBook Pro than a MacBook. The MacBook uses the Intel GMA 950 graphics accelerator which utilizes 64 MBs of DDR RAM shared with the main memory.

I have a mac computer with everything requred for the game...except its a G4!!!! Do u guys think it will work on a G4, evenothough it says G5 only. In the past iv gotten away with breaking a few minimum system requrements and still made the game work.

Are these suggested minimums or will it just not play at all on my powerbook g4? Has anyone ever tried running something on a system without the minimum requirements?

Sigh, have a Powerbook G4 1.5 Mhz, didnt even think I would have a problem with Civilization... can play it but it gets slower and slower and slower as the game progresses...

How ridiculous - Apple release an iMac with huge screen a great graphics capability. Upgradeable to boot. BUT - CivIV won't run on the iMac 24! Graphics card (both) not supported. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

Just wondering why the system requirements are much higher on the Mac than on the PC platform.

On the PC hardware requirements are:
1GHz CPU
256 MB RAM
32 MB Video Memory

These are *significantly* lower. Is OS X really that inefficient at gaming? (posting from a 12" powerbook, so save the flames)

As an owner of Civilization IV for PC, I can say that the minimum and recommended system requirements for PC should be what they are for Mac. My computer meets the recommended requirements, but becomes very sluggish later in the game on anything larger than a small map, or with above low graphics. Based on my results, I would venture that the higher requirements for Mac stem from a more realistic view of the performance users want rather than system inefficiency.

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How ridiculous - Apple release an iMac with huge screen a great graphics capability. Upgradeable to boot. BUT - CivIV won't run on the iMac 24! Graphics card (both) not supported. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

Consider yourself corrected. I have a 24" iMac (3 GB RAM, 7600 graphics card) and Civ IV/Warlords runs beautifully. Oh, and FWIW, even though the Macbook isn't OFFICIALLY supported, it will run Civ IV nicely if you absolutely MUST have your fix. I would have 2 GB of RAM though.

Do you have any problems with glitches etc? I am having numerous problems such as flickering, blacked out units etc. Some crashing as well.

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Do you have any problems with glitches etc? I am having numerous problems such as flickering, blacked out units etc. Some crashing as well.

No, no problems at all. I am running 10.4.9 wih all available patches/updates to all the software (both Apple and non-Apple).

I just bought macbook with specification of:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2GHz
667 MHz FSB
4 MB Cache
1 GB RAM
120 GB Hard Drive
SuperDrive (DVD RW Drive)
13.3" TFT Display
MAC OS X v10.4 TIGER
64MB Intel GMA 950 Integrated Graphics

will games like civilization 4 and sim city 4 work?

Get more RAM and you should be fine.

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I just bought macbook with specification of:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2GHz
667 MHz FSB
4 MB Cache
1 GB RAM
120 GB Hard Drive
SuperDrive (DVD RW Drive)
13.3" TFT Display
MAC OS X v10.4 TIGER
64MB Intel GMA 950 Integrated Graphics

will games like civilization 4 and sim city 4 work?

Actually, yes ... and no. SimCity 4 requires a Universal BInary updater, which is only in beta form. I've downloaded it only to discover that my SC4 installer disk is corrupt, so I can't vouch for it. Try it out, but don't bother running the PPC version of SC4 on your MacBook. It ain't worth the pain.

As for Civ IV ... it's been some time now but I think my Civ IV installer rejected a MacBook I was trying to install it on. Something about insufficient video support. Perhaps you could d/l a trail version of Civ IV to test it out?

I think it would be worth doing some further research.

Me? I play SC4 under Boot Camp. Screams along on a 24in iMac.

And I'v been meaning to install Civ IV for a while on this machine. Might just do it now.

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Perhaps you could d/l a trail version of Civ IV to test it out?

Or maybe even a trial version.

well, I am running a MacBook with the intel GMA 950 chipset (64 Meg). The game rejected the computer. I uploaded it anyway, and the game runs. It just doesn't give all the graphics all the time. So far, it's good enough for me, but I'm not a big-time gamer.

its sayin nt enuf disk space wen i hv 126 gb free

I think you'll find that it actually says something along the lines of:

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Not enough disk space

How about posting:

"It's saying 'Not enough disk space', when I have 126gb free."

That would be readable, and make you look just a little bit better.

Are you sure you're installing it on that particular drive?

The irony is that the post came from the University of Ohio domain.


I weep for this generation.

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its sayin nt enuf disk space wen i hv 126 gb free

What Intruder and LaurieF said.

Perhaps he's browsing the net on his phone for which "txt" language would be appropriate.

But he's posting here, where it's not.

im trying to install civ 4 and it stops suddently with the statueofliberty.mov file which says the data's corrupt or something. i have a new macbookpro and thought it would be easy to have it work... im having trouble guys, what should i do????

Have you tried going to support.aspyr.com, and raising a ticket? It sounds as though you may have a bad quality CD/DVD (in which case you're in for a free replacement), or it may be an known or new issue that Aspyr can help you with.

when i installed civ 4 its in some kind of weird font what do i do to fix it

What is it with the guest posts in this thread that they almost all seem to have "language issues" - that is, they can't write legible English?

To answer what it is I think you're saying, I have no idea. You haven't said what machine you're running it on, what version of the OS you're using, what font you're seeing…come on, try harder!

I'm curious as to when we became the support forum for Civ IV.

Doesn't Aspyr have support forum? Does anybody ever go THERE to ask these sorts of questions?