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!

[Graine]

Same problem. Lobby works but the game can"t loading...

[haezan]

Origineel geplaatst door Graine:

Same problem. Lobby works but the game can"t loading...

FIXED THIS ISSUE:

I had the exact same problem last night with several friends. The Windows players could join easily but the Mac’s couldn’t. They couldn’t even join each others game.

Here’s the fix that solved it for us:

Go to your steam library, right click civ, open properties, go to Betas, type “ineedlegacyaccess”, click the button that appears to install the legacy version of the game (it’s the version prior to this current build which works fine). It’s a 1GB update so should be done in no time for you!

Hope that helps

[ancientone]

i had some issues with the interminable loading screen when creating or loading a game. I sampled the process - and I didn't see anything representing an error. Plus the application (civ vi) still had mouse response.
Then i remembered - we had issues with thread spawning. The solution was to change some parameters in the settings file - /Users/***/Library/Application Support/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/UserOptions.txt -
i wasn't sure what to change - so i just modified the first line (version number) which allowed the game to use its defaults.
This file hadn't been changed by reinstalling the Civ VI game.

Anyway -
with the default UserOptions.txt file - my loading issues stopped and i was able to use all of my mods (mostly user interface mods - like better reporting).
I hope this change - just resetting the options to default - will help someone else - cuz this was very annoying.

iMac 2020 (no m1...) running Ventura 13.1

[dreamer_bee10]

Origineel geplaatst door haezan:

Origineel geplaatst door Graine:

Same problem. Lobby works but the game can"t loading...

FIXED THIS ISSUE:

I had the exact same problem last night with several friends. The Windows players could join easily but the Mac’s couldn’t. They couldn’t even join each others game.

Here’s the fix that solved it for us:

Go to your steam library, right click civ, open properties, go to Betas, type “ineedlegacyaccess”, click the button that appears to install the legacy version of the game (it’s the version prior to this current build which works fine). It’s a 1GB update so should be done in no time for you!

Hope that helps

This is the only thing that worked for me after trying just about every other suggestion in this thread. I'm playing multiplayer with a windows user and they had to do the same thing to be able to play with me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[claudio]

The game now start but I have the problem of graphic glitch, black stripes everywhere, it's impossible to play.

[dongchirua]

Origineel geplaatst door ancientone:

i had some issues with the interminable loading screen when creating or loading a game. I sampled the process - and I didn't see anything representing an error. Plus the application (civ vi) still had mouse response.
Then i remembered - we had issues with thread spawning. The solution was to change some parameters in the settings file - /Users/***/Library/Application Support/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/UserOptions.txt -
i wasn't sure what to change - so i just modified the first line (version number) which allowed the game to use its defaults.
This file hadn't been changed by reinstalling the Civ VI game.

Anyway -
with the default UserOptions.txt file - my loading issues stopped and i was able to use all of my mods (mostly user interface mods - like better reporting).
I hope this change - just resetting the options to default - will help someone else - cuz this was very annoying.

iMac 2020 (no m1...) running Ventura 13.1

just removed Version line then it worked for me. Now I can play

[longwayround]

The black stripes thing can be resolved by changing the view to (if I remember correctly) tactical. This has the effect of giving you graphics that look rather like CIV III…

[Graine]

Origineel geplaatst door haezan:

Origineel geplaatst door Graine:

Same problem. Lobby works but the game can"t loading...

FIXED THIS ISSUE:

I had the exact same problem last night with several friends. The Windows players could join easily but the Mac’s couldn’t. They couldn’t even join each others game.

Here’s the fix that solved it for us:

Go to your steam library, right click civ, open properties, go to Betas, type “ineedlegacyaccess”, click the button that appears to install the legacy version of the game (it’s the version prior to this current build which works fine). It’s a 1GB update so should be done in no time for you!

Hope that helps

Thx a lot !
But i have some questions. Does this manipulation change the mods? And should windows players do the same?

[ncudmore]

Origineel geplaatst door blinky8u2:

Downloaded today's update and now it's perma stuck on "loading"
OS 12.6.1 (21G217) M2 Air

Second update this year on the Mac that didn't work, I got worried when it said it was applying an update and kinda of breathed a sigh or relief when the game menu came up, but the after going to resume game... I got the "Loading, please wait...." then .... nope it just stayed on that screen.

[jaxtherat]

Origineel geplaatst door Kitten Mittens:

"Loading Please Wait"..... forever.... cant start a game.

Game was fine 6 hours ago. Did nothing to my laptop and came back later to play a few rounds. Nothing. Was there an update while I was gone for the afternoon?

MBP M2

Yep, same as me. Tried verifying local files, uninstalling DLC, removing all mods, deleting and reinstalling the whole game, still eternal "loading" screen, for all games.

Air M2

[Hand of Shivaya]

It would be cool if they would test their mac version's before pushing them out, like a professional would

[gsaum]

My Steam games all say "download queued". I've played hundreds of hours of Civ 6 and this issue just started a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to play since. Disabled my firewall. Changed region. Uninstalled Steam AND Civ 6 and reinstalled. No luck. WTF is going on here????

[adamsite]

Ok, I finally got me game to start and run "smoothly" once I did the System Settings and privacy acceptance workaround, but now my graphics are super glitchy. I get horrible fog of war black lines across the screen about 20 turns in, and it only gets worse as the game goes on until it's virtually unplayable.

[haezan]

Origineel geplaatst door Graine:

Origineel geplaatst door haezan:

FIXED THIS ISSUE:

I had the exact same problem last night with several friends. The Windows players could join easily but the Mac’s couldn’t. They couldn’t even join each others game.

Here’s the fix that solved it for us:

Go to your steam library, right click civ, open properties, go to Betas, type “ineedlegacyaccess”, click the button that appears to install the legacy version of the game (it’s the version prior to this current build which works fine). It’s a 1GB update so should be done in no time for you!

Hope that helps

Thx a lot !
But i have some questions. Does this manipulation change the mods? And should windows players do the same?

If the mods worked on the previous version they should still work in theory (at least all mine still do). And everyone playing in the lobby has to be on the legacy version for it to work, even windows players. Hopefully it’s patched soon

[Susembe]

Macbook Pro M1 Max, new patch, disc write error???