InsanelyMac Forum > Civilization 4 on Mac

eRAZOR2007

Jun 29 2008, 04:35 PM

Hi

I'm trying to run a Civilization 4, patched to version 1.61 on a Hackintosh with the following specs:

- Asus P5E
- MSI 7800 GTX
- Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz
- Kalyway 10.5.2 upgraded using Kalyway_10.5.3_ComboUpdate

After launching the game, initialization succeeds until the "Init Engine" step and then fails with:

QUOTE

Initialize Renderer failed. Check DirectX installation.

Parameters:
width: 1024
height: 768
flags: 0xc
adapterid: 0
deviceid: 3

Error: Creation failed: Invalid adapter

Could this be caused by the game checking for specific Mac Graphics Card Vendor Strings? Any ideas?

caracols

Jul 1 2008, 12:58 PM

There's a native Mac version of Civ4 and Civ4:Warlords, no BtS tho'.
Win version of civ4 fails to run on cider.

subagon

Jul 13 2008, 06:11 PM

QUOTE(eRAZOR2007 @ Jun 29 2008, 12:35 PM)

Hi

I'm trying to run a Civilization 4, patched to version 1.61 on a Hackintosh with the following specs:

- Asus P5E
- MSI 7800 GTX
- Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz
- Kalyway 10.5.2 upgraded using Kalyway_10.5.3_ComboUpdate

After launching the game, initialization succeeds until the "Init Engine" step and then fails with:

Could this be caused by the game checking for specific Mac Graphics Card Vendor Strings? Any ideas?

I'm having the same problem. I'm using the Mac version of Civ 4 patched to 1.74.

Gigabyte GA-P965-DQ6 Rev 3.3
Asus EN6200TC (nVIDIA GeForce 6200TC) 64 Mb VRAM
Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz
Kalyway 10.5.2 upgraded using Kalyway_10.5.3_ComboUpdate