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!

[JCDenton]

Hi, I bought the game 1 hour ago, Platinum edition; I'm using Ventura 13.0.1. After downloading, all I get is the message "Civilization VI is damaged and cannot be opened". I've tried installing again and verifying files integrity; the message is always the same. Any idea?

[mberger475]

Originally posted by kjgreidanus:

Originally posted by mberger475:

Same thing happened, uninstalling and installing again fixed it for me.

Steam or the Game?

The game, but it seems like that doesn't work for everyone

[mrc2000]

In Civ VI I unchecked the new DLC which is causing the problem, then uninstalled Steam, then reinstalled Steam, then got a new error message saying I have OS 10.13.6 but OS 10.14.6 is required.

[Breakphus]

Originally posted by mrc2000:

In Civ VI I unchecked the new DLC which is causing the problem, then uninstalled Steam, then reinstalled Steam, then got a new error message saying I have OS 10.13.6 but OS 10.14.6 is required.

Same thing for me after doing all that 24 hours ago and trying again today several times.

[DaTr1p]

Originally posted by JCDenton:

Hi, I bought the game 1 hour ago, Platinum edition; I'm using Ventura 13.0.1. After downloading, all I get is the message "Civilization VI is damaged and cannot be opened". I've tried installing again and verifying files integrity; the message is always the same. Any idea?

Same here tried bypassing the launcher did not work, if you do find the cure let me know :)

[Superjacke]

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

[moliveir]

Since the release of the Leaders Pass package, I cannot open my game anymore. I have not downloaded any update or upgrade. I did everything that Steam's help suggests. Even uninstalled and reinstalled everything (Steam, Civ). Nothing helps. What should I do?

[naivri]

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

This worked for me on M1 Pro Macbook Pro on Ventura

Previously had the "damaged and cannot be opened" error

Thanks

[normalin]

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

This worked for me, thanks a lot!

[moliveir]

Originally posted by normalin:

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

This worked for me, thanks a lot!

THANK YOU. I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. TRIED YOUR WAY AND NOPE. YESTERDAY`S CHANGE IN THE GAME WAS A DISASTER.

[Folkesito]

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

This worked for me. Thx a million!

[JCDenton]

Originally posted by naivri:

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

This worked for me on M1 Pro Macbook Pro on Ventura

Previously had the "damaged and cannot be opened" error

Thanks

didn't work for me...

[coxlewis]

Upgrading to Ventura fixed this on my M1 Macbook Pro, only annoyance is it changed the resolution way out

[jeff42]

Originally posted by JCDenton:

Originally posted by naivri:

This worked for me on M1 Pro Macbook Pro on Ventura

Previously had the "damaged and cannot be opened" error

Thanks

didn't work for me...

This worked for me to bypass the damaged and cannot be opened etc. However I'm back to the game crashing after a few moves, this is the same crash I had prior to the v1.4.0 update so that hasn't worked for me sadly. Hopefully Aspyr/Steam folks are reading the numerous complaints on here and looking to fix it properly, Hmmmmm.........

[GA_Steelers_Fan]

Originally posted by Superjacke:

Worked without unchecking DLC`s

1) Right click on "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" in your Steam Library and choose Properties.
2) In the General section find the Launch Option text field.
3) Copy and paste the following text, making sure to replace "YOUR_USER" with your user's account name, in the Launch Option text field referenced in Step 2:

"/Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/MacOS/Civ6_Exe" %command%

Hope it works for you either.

Thank you for the tip. This worked for me on my 2019 16" MBP running Monterey.