I have two Macbook Pros, a 2008 model and a 2011 model. Bizarrely, the game actually runs better on the older, much less powerful machine—although this is not at all to suggest that it runs well.
2008 Macbook Pro: 2.5ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs RAM, nVidia 8600M GT
2011 Macbook Pro: 2.2ghz Intel I7 (4-core), 4 gigs RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6750M
On the 2008 Macbook Pro, every 3D model in the game flickers interminably. This includes council members, armies, buildings, and the borders of the map. The game also chugs painfully. Frame rates are low across the board, and the game sometimes pauses for ten-second stretches for no obvious reason.
The case of the 2011 Macbook Pro is odd. Upon launch, the game effectively freezes at the "loading graphics" screen, before the main menu appears. It doesn't quite freeze entirely, but actually starts moving in slow motion: the "loading graphics" border which wraps around the screen recedes to the edge, and the main menu emerges from below, but this whole process takes about ten minutes. (On my old 2008 Macbook Pro, this all only takes a couple of seconds.) Eventually the menu appears and I can start a game, but the frame rate is nearly as poor as on the 2008 machine.
Meanwhile, on the world map, the water is colored an eerie and distracting shade of purple.
Both of these computers run the Windows version of CK2 with nary a problem through Boot Camp. I feel sorry for those Mac users who lack separate Windows partitions. The Mac version of CK2 is just awful. Even my machine that well exceeds the game's minimum stated requirements cannot run it.
2008 Macbook Pro: 2.5ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs RAM, nVidia 8600M GT
2011 Macbook Pro: 2.2ghz Intel I7 (4-core), 4 gigs RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6750M
On the 2008 Macbook Pro, every 3D model in the game flickers interminably. This includes council members, armies, buildings, and the borders of the map. The game also chugs painfully. Frame rates are low across the board, and the game sometimes pauses for ten-second stretches for no obvious reason.
The case of the 2011 Macbook Pro is odd. Upon launch, the game effectively freezes at the "loading graphics" screen, before the main menu appears. It doesn't quite freeze entirely, but actually starts moving in slow motion: the "loading graphics" border which wraps around the screen recedes to the edge, and the main menu emerges from below, but this whole process takes about ten minutes. (On my old 2008 Macbook Pro, this all only takes a couple of seconds.) Eventually the menu appears and I can start a game, but the frame rate is nearly as poor as on the 2008 machine.
Meanwhile, on the world map, the water is colored an eerie and distracting shade of purple.
Both of these computers run the Windows version of CK2 with nary a problem through Boot Camp. I feel sorry for those Mac users who lack separate Windows partitions. The Mac version of CK2 is just awful. Even my machine that well exceeds the game's minimum stated requirements cannot run it.