![]() It appears that the fact that a Steam client runs on a modern Mac doesn’t by itself also mean anything on Steam will also run. I’m afraid I don’t really understand Steam anyway. Then there’s Steam, which I so far avoided. But I see Civ IV requires Vista so that’s too much of a stretch. So DVD gets returned and I’m back to square one: how do I play Civ IV on a Mac these days? I could buy an old Windows laptop and run it air-gapped. So having to have a DVD inserted just to play is not going to fly anyway. Anyway, the extension pack launched, but crashed too, not however, before telling me that to launch Civ IV I needed to have the DVD in the drive. Odd since the same Civ IV purchased on the MAS ran just fine on that same Mac under that same macOS. Got my hands on a legit Civ IV DVD and installed that on two Mojave systems, but got a dreaded prohibited sign painted over the icon. So I finally got around to trying Civ IV on an old Mojave Mac. Nothing against that in principle, except of course that it would be a whole lot nicer if there were a solution that integrates on a modern Apple Silicon Mac. But for now it indeed looks like 32bit Mac is still the easiest way forward. Now, if there were reports of Win Civ IV working well on CrossOver on Apple Silicon (thanks for that link, I should probably reconsider that stance. That IMHO pretty much makes it a de facto subscription service. And then - at least the way we run it at work - it requires basically a yearly renewal in order to stay updated and (perhaps more importantly) stop all the incessant nagging. Unfortunately, again on Apple Silicon not quite as much. It is a bit cumbersome, but on Intel it worked really well (once it worked). ![]() As a Wine replacement on the Mac side at work I have actually used CrossOver rather extensively. Unfortunately, on the Mac side that got a lot less with the transition to Apple Silicon, on Linux I still use it daily. Thank you, At work I used to use Wine a lot both on Linux and macOS. However, if by “modern Mac” you mean one with Apple Silicon, there might be some stumbling blocks running Wine or Steam on ARM-based Linux. Steam also might have a Linux native version of Civ IV. If you’re okay with virtualization, just not of Windows, you could run Linux in a virtual machine and use Wine there to run the Windows version of Civ IV. Codeweavers does contribute back to the Wine project so maybe Wine itself is better on a Mac now. However, back when CrossOver was new, my understanding was getting Wine to work on a Mac was so painful that using CrossOver was the only realistic option. ![]() There is a Mac version of Wine, you could try that first. The Mac system compatibility says CrossOver works on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs.ĬrossOver is a commercial, supported product based on the free and open source project, Wine (which stood for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”). Their compatibility reports about Civilization indicate that Civ IV has worked well for people. What about Codeweavers’ CrossOver? It exists to run Windows programs on other operating systems without Windows.
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