Hi! I just installed Imperator Rome on a Lac Pro 15 version 10.15.2 with a 2.2 GHz i7, but every time I try to start a campaign the entire game shuts down. I’ve tried lowering some of the specs but this hasn’t worked. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do. So excited to start playing! Thank you!
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I'm having the exact same issue, I'm really hoping that I'm able to find a way around this soon. It's good to know that I'm not the only one!
Consider yourself lucky that you haven't played enough that you fail to qualify for a refund. They've stated several times in these threads that they're not fixing this.
This does sound like the typical symptom of this game on a Mac with underspec video. The published requirement is:
If your Macs have an Intel or older nVidia video, Your options are:
- boot the Mac into Apple Bootcamp if you have that installed, as the issue does not exist under Windows
- run on another Mac with a supported video system
- run on a Windows or Linux machine if you have access to those
- revert the game to 1.2 in the Steam Betas tab for this game, as that should still work.
- if you have just bought the game, seek a refund from that vendor
Sorry you've ended up in this situation!
The point I don't understand is that the game was running very well on Mac before the patch. The game was not laggy or crashing even with good resolution.
The "lucky to play before" interpretation is a little bit dry since you have a game that performs well, then you have a patch than mainly changes minor points and gameplay, and then after it doesn't even start and the problem is the hardware.
The "lucky to play before" interpretation is a little bit dry since you have a game that performs well, then you have a patch than mainly changes minor points and gameplay, and then after it doesn't even start and the problem is the hardware.
The problem is obviously not the hardware, as they will tell you that you can just run version 1.2, which works fine. They made a change in 1.3 that broke the game for Mac users, and simply don't care to fix it. They could if they wanted to.
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Then how is it the game runs on supported hardware?
Only on unsupported hardware.
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Since you are asking me a question, I hope I can answer without my post getting deleted. 1.2 ran perfectly well on the hardware in question. Therefore the hardware is not the problem. It's a change in 1.3 that is the problem. Very clearly, a fix could be made in 1.3 that would allow the game to resume running on this hardware. I'm just answering the question.
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It's also clearly not a hardware issue if you're saying that it can be launched through Bootcamp on the same hardware.
Same issue for me, on a MacBook Pro 13" 2019 (July). I don't get it. A lot of customers in the same situation: we bought a brand new game, we had a recent computer, the game was working just fine, and then they broke it since the Fall. I expect official explanations here. I can't get a refund on Steam.
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I was looking forward to trying this game out during the free play period, as I am a fan of all Paradox games. However I am experiencing the same thing: the game crashes as soon as I start a new campaign in tutorial mode. MacBook Pro mid-2015
At this stage they should simply say that the game is not supported on Mac. This is so misleading.
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The game is supported on Macs that meet the published hardware requirements. To say it is not supported on Macs at all would indeed be misleading.
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You have a valid point, of course. I am just struck that the latest MacBook Pro does not even meet the minimum requirements.
And for laypeople, it's hard to tell whether "1,4Ghz Intel Core i5 4 cores" is better or lower than "AMD® Radeon™ R9 M380 with 2GB Vram". It's not as if they are continuous numbers. My point is that it is hard to tell whether one's Mac will support than game, even the latests Macs.
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It is not uncommon for laptops to not meet gaming requirements, Mac or Windows.
High end MacBook Pros do meet the requirements.
https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch?afid=p239|312327&cid=aos-se-aff-ir
AMD Radeon Pro 5300M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory
The first of those is a CPU , the second a GPU. They are unrelated requirements.
Here are the published requirements:
MINIMUM:- Processor: Intel® iCore™ i5-6500
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ R9 M380 with 2GB Vram
- Processor: Intel® iCore™ i5-6500
Intel UHD 630 video system vs AMD® Radeon™ R9 M380
There you can see that the AMD system is more that 5x more powerful than the Intel.
Just bought the game, same problem right here. Wanted to start the tutorial... just keeps on crashing, no matter what I do. Is there any way this game will run? Please! I actually want to play this...
Do you seriously expect the average user to do this? At any rate, it's irrelevant, as the Intel is obviously plenty powerful enough to run I:R. It ran on it until 1.3 broke the game, and even now you can still use that same Intel card in Windows to play on BootCamp. The idea that the hardware is inadequate is simply wrong.
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My boyfriend is currently having this issue too. I cannot play with him because whenever the campaign starts, his game crashes.
Hi! I run a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), 2,6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris 1536 MB.
The game crashes with 1.4 and new DLC. The beta rollbacks also crash under Steam. The intel graphic cards are very common among the Mac users, actually this represents 85% of the market, this is also the standard video card hardware in the MBP13" entry models in 2019. The AMD graphic cards are only in the high end MBP15" and 16"s. It is a very disappointing decision from Paradox. I understand they want a good user experience, but they also need to consider their installed base.
I would appreciate if at least I could download and roll back to the 1.3 version which worked perfectly on my Mac. The statement to install Bootcamp and play under Windows is a relatively arrogant one. I do use a Mac and chosen to play games under Mac, as I prefer not to install Bootcamp and would like to avoid the Windows interface and user experience. Thank you.
The game crashes with 1.4 and new DLC. The beta rollbacks also crash under Steam. The intel graphic cards are very common among the Mac users, actually this represents 85% of the market, this is also the standard video card hardware in the MBP13" entry models in 2019. The AMD graphic cards are only in the high end MBP15" and 16"s. It is a very disappointing decision from Paradox. I understand they want a good user experience, but they also need to consider their installed base.
I would appreciate if at least I could download and roll back to the 1.3 version which worked perfectly on my Mac. The statement to install Bootcamp and play under Windows is a relatively arrogant one. I do use a Mac and chosen to play games under Mac, as I prefer not to install Bootcamp and would like to avoid the Windows interface and user experience. Thank you.
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Yes if this continues into their other games I will no longer be able to buy Paradox games as I need my Mac for non-gaming and like you said 85% of Macs are not using the very specific graphic card types involved. It likely won't be any time soon I can afford a pure gaming laptop (no room in my wife and I's camper for a dekstop setup period, we have to be mobile for her music) or anything of the like. Just stop saying it's mac compatible and add a stipulation that it might work on the small number of macs that apply.
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