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Ever since today my Civilization 5 has been giving me issues where the font of all text inside the game is corrupt only showing jagged lines. It has now expanded to not showing text at all. How can I fix this?

Updating to playonmac 4.2 only made the situation worse.

I've attempted to attach a link into the forum post here but it does not want to work.

Edited by Myst

Well, can you give us more info on your setup? Youve given very little info to go on. :)

What happened on Sunday? Did you update or upgrade anything in your system? Did Civ 5 update? Did you add or remove any software? Any hardware changes? What card are you running? Proprietary drivers or open source? Something must have changed on that day, or the day before or something, to cause it. I doubt it just happened out of the blue. Lol.

Macbook Pro 2012 - Non Retina with 1280x800
Core i5 2.5ghz dual core.
16gb of ddr3 1600 ram.
Integrated card running off the i5, with 512mb or vRAM.

On sunday I had done no updates to the system or installation of software, and I doubt my torrenting of comics or the walking dead could affect a completely separate part of my system.

The playonmac client running at 4.19 had the same errors, and since it was harassing me to update I thought that it might fix the issue. Sadly not the case.
The steam installation is running Wine wrapper 1.5.25 as this fixed the steam update problems. I installed hacksteam on sunday onto the virtual drive in hopes it would fix the issue, as it was mentioned in a previous thread to fix the majority of issues with steam. What issues it fixed I do not see any difference.

On monday I managed to get it working again, but this only lasted for the one launch and problems returned.

I changed the amount of vRAM the virtual drive was allowed to use as my only conclusion was that a bottleneck was occurring, changing the vRAM from 384 to 512mb did nothing to help the issue.

On my regular Mac installation of Civ 5, I do not encounter these issues and have the graphics settings set to medium. On the playonmac installation, I put the graphics settings to the bare minimum as the game offered more options to reduce graphics settings that are not offered in the Mac install. The reduction of these settings allowed a greater performance boost, especially since the windows installation allows the running of mods where I currently have been playing with 34 civs and 55 city states.

But this returns to a moot point as I cannot play anymore sadly.

Edited by Myst

On sunday I had done no updates to the system or installation of software, and I doubt my torrenting of comics or the walking dead could affect a completely separate part of my system.

Im sure it wouldnt either, but dont post about that here. :) Its a violation of ToS.

I understand how you feel, though. I, unfortunately, do not have a mac, nor this program, so I cannot test, but be patient, as the other, more experiences developers roam the forums all of the time. Im sure someone will be able to give you a more mac related, relevant answer, instead of me speculating. :)

Edited by RoninDusette

On my regular Mac installation of Civ 5, I do not encounter these issues and have the graphics settings set to medium. On the playonmac installation, I put the graphics settings to the bare minimum as the game offered more options to reduce graphics settings that are not offered in the Mac install.

This is because its not a native version, of course. But what I am wondering, is Steam the real reason you are installing it through POM instead of using the native Mac version? There is no reason to use a Windows version of a Mac program through PlayOnMac, unless the windows version has been pirated...... Mac has Steam, and a native Mac port of this game. Im not implying that you are bootlegging it, but why run it through POM if it works native on Mac, as well as through Steam?

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The Mac native version as I said does not have access to the mods the Windows version does.

And all content on steam is cross-compatible if steam has made it available. Thus if I have bought something for windows, and steam offers it on mac then you can play it on mac. Just like if it is available on linux and steam offers it, and you bought it through windows, you would still be able to play it since you bought the license.

Steam incorporated this for Mac in 2010.
And for Linux late 2012.

To further add to the frustration, I could not play civ5 when I posted this earlier, but after rebooting several times civ5 works(for the one time i played it just now, we will see if it continues and it most likely will later).

Edited by Myst

Huh? haha. Wow. I wonder what was changing in reboots? Start watching the output from the terminal, and see if it throws random errors here and there. Im sure you will notice a pattern of errors when it doesnt run compared to when it does.

Its probably missing some dependencies. Im not sure what, though.

The Mac native version as I said does not have access to the mods the Windows version does.

Perhaps those mods are specific to things in Windows that Linux is not capable of doing? Just a thought.

Huh? haha. Wow. I wonder what was changing in reboots? Start watching the output from the terminal, and see if it throws random errors here and there. Im sure you will notice a pattern of errors when it doesnt run compared to when it does.

Its probably missing some dependencies. Im not sure what, though.

Do it to it! Copy and paste ALL of it and put it in this thread. It will help greatly.