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!

[cgathright72]

I checked the installation, which did not help. Uninstalled and reistalled the game and rebooted still no good. Frustrating as it ran fine this morning. Sadly now the Civ logo is blue instaed of gold, rice is blue instead of white highlights on clothes and skin are now blue instead of white and certain icons are cut off. I guess I'll go back to Civ 5 for now

[AspyrWoo1]

Originally posted by Loud-Mouthed Schnook:

Originally posted by cgathright72:

I just installed the spring update and now I have a blue tinge to most graphics. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix that?

Same here, I just came here to see if anyone else had the same issue. No idea how to fix :/

Drop a ticket at http://support.aspyr.com, and they'll help you take a look.

Do y'all happen to be on an ATI card running in 10.11? Our QA ran into an issue that sounds similar to this one, but it's been resolved on the supported GPUs for 10.11. Otherwise, upgrading to 10.12 should resolve it.

[cgathright72]

I am using an AMD card (an unsupported Radeon 5770) on OS 10.11. Sadly I can't update to 10.12 as my 2008 Mac Pro desktop is not capable. When I purchaed Civ 6 I figured I would run into some issues using an older Mac, but the game woked fine until this latest update. I have opened a ticket with Aspyre, but I expect their answer to be "get a new Mac". Thanks for the advice though.

[Melhadf]

Originally posted by Aspyr-Blair:

Update just released! Unfortunately, we were unable to get past some nasty bugs in cross platform play, so we elected to get the update out while we continue to work on those. Our sincere apology for the folks that are still waiting. A reminder, Mac and LInux can still play together.

Called it ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/0/340412628172881722/?ctp=51#c135513421439376130 )

[Kelltar]

Originally posted by Loud-Mouthed Schnook:

Originally posted by cgathright72:

I just installed the spring update and now I have a blue tinge to most graphics. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix that?

Same here, I just came here to see if anyone else had the same issue. No idea how to fix :/

Same problem here Help

[Yams]

Originally posted by toys2000:

Originally posted by Loud-Mouthed Schnook:

Same here, I just came here to see if anyone else had the same issue. No idea how to fix :/

Same problem here Help

Update to OS 10.12 (Sierra). Fixed it for me. Hope this helps you too!!

[docrobertson]

Originally posted by cgathright72:

I am using an AMD card (an unsupported Radeon 5770) on OS 10.11. Sadly I can't update to 10.12 as my 2008 Mac Pro desktop is not capable. When I purchaed Civ 6 I figured I would run into some issues using an older Mac, but the game woked fine until this latest update. I have opened a ticket with Aspyre, but I expect their answer to be "get a new Mac". Thanks for the advice though.

This describes my situation exactly (same card, same Mac Pro, same version of Mac OS X). Disappointing, because the graphics were working fine before this update.

[cutigers]

Is the mac version the same as the pc now? I remembered this caused some issues playing online with civ V

[SamBC]

Originally posted by cutigers:

Is the mac version the same as the pc now? I remembered this caused some issues playing online with civ V

Cross-platform MP hasn't been sorted out yet - Aspyr haven't been able to work out the kinks. Mac and Linux can talk to each other, but not to Windows.

[AspyrWoo1]

Originally posted by cutigers:

Is the mac version the same as the pc now? I remembered this caused some issues playing online with civ V

The content is the same, but cross-platform with Windows has not been implemented as we are still working out some immersion-breaking bugs.

[Strange Man]

PLEASE HELP, I bought the latest Civ 6 expansion but it wont let me play the new Scenario, What do I do.

[john]

Originally posted by docrobertson:

Originally posted by cgathright72:

I am using an AMD card (an unsupported Radeon 5770) on OS 10.11. Sadly I can't update to 10.12 as my 2008 Mac Pro desktop is not capable. When I purchaed Civ 6 I figured I would run into some issues using an older Mac, but the game woked fine until this latest update. I have opened a ticket with Aspyre, but I expect their answer to be "get a new Mac". Thanks for the advice though.

This describes my situation exactly (same card, same Mac Pro, same version of Mac OS X). Disappointing, because the graphics were working fine before this update.

I also am in this situation, and I also can't update to 10.12. Might there be some other way to fix this, Aspyr? I have an R9 280x.

Thanks

[The Maggot Guy]

Originally posted by hunan6:

PLEASE HELP, I bought the latest Civ 6 expansion but it wont let me play the new Scenario, What do I do.

Don't leave a negative review because you're asking for help. A review is not a discussion.

[Jack Flash]

Got an iMac 27 from '10. El Cap and Win 10. In Windows Civ 6 runs perfectly, in El Cap graphics is grainy (?) and with a blue'ish color on icons and stuff.

How is that possible with same specs ? And can something be done ? TIA :)

[Strange Man]

Originally posted by Captain MAGGOT!:

Originally posted by hunan6:

PLEASE HELP, I bought the latest Civ 6 expansion but it wont let me play the new Scenario, What do I do.

Don't leave a negative review because you're asking for help. A review is not a discussion.

I did not leave a reveiw. I don't now how to get it to work. And I have a negitive response becuse I payed money for somthing and it did not give me what it said it would do. I was simply asking for help I was not saying that the game is bad. I enjoy civ but I don't know why the thing I payed for wont work. And I don't know how telling someone that what they said is not part of the discussion is part of the disscussion.