

Don't copy the 'Framework' folder itself.īTS (and Warlords and Colonization) should now work.
CIVILIZATION IV MAC PASSWORD
Again, your administration password is required. Copy these to where the aliases used to be. You should see another '2.3' folder and another '2.5' folder. Sid Meiers Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. You need to remove the aliases '2.3' and '2.5'.įrom the 'BTS Yosemite Python Fix', open the 'Framework' folder. There should be 2 folders and 3 aliases here. Navigate to / System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/. You'll need to enter your administration password to do this. In this location you should see two folders called '2.6' and '2.7'.įrom the 'BTS Yosemite Python Fix' folder, copy the folders '2.3' and '2.5' to this location. This is NOT the Library folder in your Home folder. These are taken direct from my installation of 10.9.4 and you may copy them from Mavericks yourself if you prefer. You should have a folder called 'BTS Yosemite Python Fix'. It's free and, in my opinion, an essential Mac utility.ĭownload the attached files below.
CIVILIZATION IV MAC MAC OS
Notice This game does not support Mac OS Catalina (10.15) or later operating systems. If you don't already have a way to unpack 7zip I highly recommend getting 'The Unarchiver' from the MacAppStore. This Civilization 4, in the Complete Edition form, is the most impressive of all editions for the fourth Sid Meier title of turn-based strategy games. Once again you can control the development of a civilization, in Civilization IV. I had to use 7zip to pack the files so they be small enough to host on with my sharing service.I don't know if both are needed by BTS, but I thought it best to include both just in case. Both were present in Mavericks but gone from Yosemite. It shouldn't cause any problems, but please be extremely careful and be sure to have your system backed up before trying this. This fix involves making some additions to folders and frameworks located in OS X's System and Library folders.Unfortunately I couldn't find an OS X version of 2.3 on, so instead I copied the relevant folders across from Mavericks. The game comes as a Universal Binary, so I tested the game on both a 1.83GHz MacBook with 512MB of RAM and on a. The solution is to reinstall Python 2.3 on Yosemite. At first, Civilization IV plays very much like the previous editions of the game. This is because Yosemite drops support for Python 2.3, which is needed by Civ4 and it's expansions. When you try to launch BTS (or Warlords or Colonization) on OS X Yosemite, it fails with the message "Failed Initializing Python".
