If you are on a weaker Mac, but still want to enjoy the game with its video settings set to high without sacrificing performance, you may want to check out the alternative way to play Civilization 6 on Mac that we’ll be talking about next. Weaker machines such as the base M1 MacBook Air models, while still offering a decent performance, won’t give you the best experience if you value high-end graphics and performance. In other words, while this isn’t the most demanding of games, it still really depends on what type of Mac you are playing it. However, when we also tested Civ 6 on an M1 MacBook Air with 8 GB of memory, we had to use the low video settings to get an average of 40 FPS, which was still okay for this game, but the decrease in both performance and image quality was noticeable. In other words, our M1 Pro MacBook handled this game pretty well, and we were quite satisfied with the experience. Initially, we were getting around 80 FPS, but as the game progressed, that dropped to around 55, which was still perfectly fine for a slower-paced game such as Civilization 6. We set the video settings to Medium and the resolution to 1080p, and we started a game on a large map with 7 other players.

In our tests for Civ 6 on Mac, the machine we used was a M1 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip and 16 GB of unified memory. Civilization isn’t the newest or most demanding game, but don’t let that deceive you, as once you gate into the mid and late stages of a match, when there are hundreds of moving parts on the map, the performance can become noticeably affected depending on the hardware you are using.

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