The official Mac thread.

[Aspyr-Blair]

Aspyr is honored to announce the release of Civilization VI Mac!!! This is a thread for all the Apple heads out there. We will do our best to keep the thread updated with the latest information, as well as ongoing Mac details of this amazing game.

First and foremost, lets go over the officially supported system requirements:

Operating System: OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) and MacOS 10.12 (Sierra)
CPU Processor: Intel Core i5 (4 cores)
CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 6 GB
Hard Disk Space: 15 GB
Video Card (ATI): Radeon 6970M
Video Card (NVIDIA): GeForce 775M
Video Card (Intel): Iris Pro
Video Memory (VRam): 1 GB
Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard, Steam Controller (optional)

Its important to note that our minimum system requirements are based on a comprehensive knowledge of performance throughout the game. In short, we believe the above requirements are enough horsepower to fuel late game and large maps at acceptable frame rates, and we've set the default settings on every Mac for optimal performance within the game itself. Know that turning up any of the default settings will likely result in decreased performance.

We want to give a special shoutout to the fine folks at Firaxis and especially our friends at 2K QA. Without a great deal of cooperation and support from these partners, the Mac release near the Windows release is impossible.

UPDATE 12/1/16 - Fall patch is now live! Here are our trimmed down details with a link to full patch notes. https://blog.aspyr.com/2016/12/01/civilization-vi-fall-2016-update-live-mac/

UPDATE 1/11/17 - Winter patch is now live! Polish and Vikings rejoice :) Here is a link to our notes https://blog.aspyr.com/2017/01/11/civilization-vi-winter-update-live-mac-steam-someone-say-dlc/

UPDATE 1/19/17 - Aztecs for all!

UPDATE 3/14/17 - We are live with Australian Summer! Linux and Mac are still in sync. Full details from the Windows announcement: http://steamcommunity.com/games/289070/announcements/detail/576861888092920827

UPDATE 4/20/17 - We are finally live with the Spring update!

UPDATE 09/07/17 - The Summer 2017 Update is here! Below is a link to the details: https://blog.aspyr.com/2017/09/07/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-summer-2017-update-live-mac/

UPDATE 01/11/18 - Khmer and Indonesia out now!

UPDATE 03/22/18 - Rise and Fall available now!

UPDATE 07/02/18 - Spring 2018 Update now out!

UPDATE 07/19/18 - Cross Platform multiplayer is now available between Mac and Windows!

UPDATE 4/2/19 - The Antarctic Late Summer Update is now live. All platforms in-sync and can continue cross platform play :)

UPDATE 9/10/19 - September 2019 update is now live! All platforms in-sync and can continue cross platform play. Enjoy Red Death!

[KaiserJC3]

Just want to say that I finished a game on a standard map with the 6770M graphics card (2011 15 Macbook Pro) and it ran pretty well. No crashes, freezups, or extreme lags. Late game the turns took a while but I'm not sure if that was related to my mac or a general issue (it appears turns take a while on PC too). Thank you Aspyr for a great port!

[Aspyr-Blair]

Originally posted by KaiserCleaver:

Just want to say that I finished a game on a standard map with the 6770M graphics card (2011 15 Macbook Pro) and it ran pretty well. No crashes, freezups, or extreme lags. Late game the turns took a while but I'm not sure if that was related to my mac or a general issue (it appears turns take a while on PC too). Thank you Aspyr for a great port!

Thanks for the kind words!

[coyoteman2]

MY SPECS:

iMac late 2012:
i5 3,2 GHz. 16 GB Ram; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB

It will Run?....

Thanks

[Parane]

Originally posted by coyoteman2:

MY SPECS:iMac late 2012:

Same machine I have. Runs great. Only difference is that I have more internal memory.

[JamieLinux]

Originally posted by EsCalibur:

Had anyone try to increase perfomance by installing graphic drivers directly from Nvidia ? Not using default drivers which Apple provides with macOS updates ?

I read somewhere that in macOS updates, Apple updates GPU drivers only for "current" generation or for Macs which are couple years old. and that is big amount of legacy cards which company doesn't care about.

As I mentioned earlier i have iMac late 2012 with GeForce GTX 680 MX . (so it's a "legacy" card)

on nVidia website i found drivers for my card for macOS Sierra 10.12.1. So nvidia released this drivers couple of days ago.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

What are you thoughts? Have you ever try to use web- drivers for your Macs? Thanks

I always use the web drivers and have not had a issue that is what they make them for ;). Hence why I posted em a few pages back :). Macs shipped gpu drivers are years behind anything nvidia releases.

[bigbarf]

I'm getting the same error as you. Crashes at load screen. I made a ticket a while ago with Aspyr but no response yet. Have you found a work around?

Mac Pro Mid 2012 - 2 x 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon - 40gb ram - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6144 MB

Originally posted by mklnk:

Mac version still not working. Crashes at the "Loading. Please wait" screen before the intro movie plays.

Late 2013 iMac, OS X 10.12.1. The PC version of the game works well on boot camp, though.

3.2 GHz i5, 16 GB ram, GeForce GT 755M 1024 MB

Process: Civ6_Exe [849]
Path: /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/*/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe
Identifier: com.aspyr.civ6.steam
Version: 1.0.0 (143190)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Civ6_Exe [849]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-10-26 21:00:20.757 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.1 (16B2555)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: C2AC27E5-129F-5D44-2FC6-90A864AF2B45


Time Awake Since Boot: 640 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 MainThrd Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]

[rEkOM]

It works well with a hackintosh i7 4770 16gb ram and a GTX750. Not some fancy fps, but decent to play

[SqueekyRatter]

Originally posted by KaiserCleaver:

Just want to say that I finished a game on a standard map with the 6770M graphics card (2011 15 Macbook Pro) and it ran pretty well. No crashes, freezups, or extreme lags. Late game the turns took a while but I'm not sure if that was related to my mac or a general issue (it appears turns take a while on PC too). Thank you Aspyr for a great port!

It runs well on my Early 2015 MBP (I use the Imac for gaming though) but the heat readings are crazy - with the temps running at or near 100C (and spiking higher).

[Stealthkillerftw]

I have a question regarding Civilization VI. I was wondering if these requirements would work for Civ VI on the new mac book pro 2016.
2.0GHz Processor
256GB Storage
2.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
8GB 1866MHz memory
256GB PCIe-based SSD1
Intel Iris Graphics 540
Two Thunderbolt 3 ports

Thank you.

[Garlic]

I just got Civ 6 (MAC) and every time i try to enter a game i get the "Version Mismatch with Host" error. I do not know what is wrong. Any ideas??

[SqueekyRatter]

Originally posted by FarFromHome:

I just got Civ 6 (MAC) and every time i try to enter a game i get the "Version Mismatch with Host" error. I do not know what is wrong. Any ideas??

Can you post your mac specs please. (hardware, macOS version etc)

[SqueekyRatter]

Quick question for all the mac users - Are you getting better/same/worse performace between full screen and windowed execution?

[Garlic]

Originally posted by SqueekyRatter:

Originally posted by FarFromHome:

I just got Civ 6 (MAC) and every time i try to enter a game i get the "Version Mismatch with Host" error. I do not know what is wrong. Any ideas??

Can you post your mac specs please. (hardware, macOS version etc)

MAC Book Pro (Retina, 13-inch, late 2013)
Sierra version 10.12
8 GB

[mklnk]

Originally posted by fart knocker:

I'm getting the same error as you. Crashes at load screen. I made a ticket a while ago with Aspyr but no response yet. Have you found a work around?

Mac Pro Mid 2012 - 2 x 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon - 40gb ram - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6144 MB

Originally posted by mklnk:

Mac version still not working. Crashes at the "Loading. Please wait" screen before the intro movie plays.

Late 2013 iMac, OS X 10.12.1. The PC version of the game works well on boot camp, though.

3.2 GHz i5, 16 GB ram, GeForce GT 755M 1024 MB

Process: Civ6_Exe [849]
Path: /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/*/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe
Identifier: com.aspyr.civ6.steam
Version: 1.0.0 (143190)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Civ6_Exe [849]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-10-26 21:00:20.757 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.1 (16B2555)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: C2AC27E5-129F-5D44-2FC6-90A864AF2B45


Time Awake Since Boot: 640 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 MainThrd Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]

Well, the game runs fine on my windows boot camp partition, so that's sort of a work around. Not sure if it's relevant, but the path given in the error IS NOT where the game was actually installed. "Civ6.app" does not exist on my Mac, "Civilization VI.app" does. Not sure if it's relevant...

[scdebaun]

I have a late model 2015 MacBook Pro. The graphics resolution in Windows boot camp is much higher than in OS 10. It that what others have found at well?