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Civ for Mac

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July 15th, 2010, 07:31
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Does anyone play on a Mac? I'm going on vacation next week and will only have a PowerBook with me so I'm thinking about downloading the Steam Mac version. Has anyone done this before? For that matter, I've always been a traditionalist and bought games at a real life store. Any thing I should be aware of with downloading from Steam?
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July 15th, 2010, 08:23
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dazedroyalty Wrote:Does anyone play on a Mac? I'm going on vacation next week and will only have a PowerBook with me so I'm thinking about downloading the Steam Mac version. Has anyone done this before? For that matter, I've always been a traditionalist and bought games at a real life store. Any thing I should be aware of with downloading from Steam?

About steam - the only game i have dowloaded via steam before (Football Manager 2010) works fine as is, but i have had diffiulty with some mods for the game due to the way steam installs it onto your PC.
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July 15th, 2010, 13:28
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I have a macbook that I sometimes use, but I have bootcamp installed so I just boot into windows xp and play civ through that. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but if you do have bootcamp I can verify that CIV runs very well smile.
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July 15th, 2010, 13:29
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It's actually my wife's macbook so I don't know tons about it. What's bootcamp? And if I get that, can I install my PC version of CIV?
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July 15th, 2010, 13:38 (This post was last modified: July 15th, 2010, 15:26 by sooooo.)
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I installed mine a few years ago, I still have OS 10.3. You had to download it then but with the latest two versions of the OS (10.5 and 10.6) it comes with the operating system.

Boot Camp (software)

It's quite easy to run, it partitions your hard drive into a windows section. You can choose how much you want - I think I said about 32 GB, which was far too much because I basically only run CIV and a my windows verion of photoshop on it.

Yes, you can use your windows CIV CDs but on the downside you need a windows installation disk. It cost me about 70 GBP to buy a windows xp disk a few years ago. You could try to do the same, or maybe you already have a windows disk, or you could even experiment with windows 7.

Windows 7 is a little buggy with CIV; my desktop pc runs it pretty quickly but you keep getting error messages about sound hardware that you have to click OK to. Not a big deal though.

Finally, I've heard some people run CIV through Parallels, probably the best place to check that out is the mac forum on civfanatics.
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July 15th, 2010, 15:48
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That'd be a great solution sooooo if I could get a spare XP disk by Saturday, but doesn't look likely. I found this thread at CFC:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=341652

Which seems to indicate it won't work even though it should!
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