You don’t have to change anything else on this screen, so click the *Install* button in the bottom right.Ī Save As box will drop down from the WineBottler window. Once it’s downloaded, open up your WineBottler window then click and drag the SteamInstall.msi file onto text field labeled *Install File*. Go to, and click the link that reads “also available for Windows” to download the installer. If you want to play Civilization 5 legally, the only way to do it is through Steam. Steam is the distribution platform that Civilization 5 uses. For now hide or minimize the WineBottler window, as there’s something we have to do first. This screen is a little less friendly, but don’t worry, we’ll be out of it soon. To create your “Bottle” for Civilization 5, click the *Create Custom Prefixes* item in the sidebar on the left. Your window won’t have the extra entries in the right pane that mine does, which are Bottles I’ve made in the past. Once WineBottler has been copied to your Applications folder, double-click the icon to launch it. Once it’s downloaded, mount the disk image and drag WineBottler to your Applications folder. Installing WineBottler is as simple as installing any other Mac OS X application. Using WineBottler I was able to install Steam, purchase Civilization 5, install the game and play it in about the same amount of time it would’ve taken on a native Windows computer. Get it?) on your Mac with minimal fuss for the user. WineBottler handles the deeply unpleasant process of creating a Windows virtualization space for applications (called a Bottle. But from the wasteland there comes a developer named Mike Kronenberg, who has created. Wine is an open source project, and as is so often the case it suffers for lack of a user interface, which can make it a non-starter for those who prefer not to use the command line. Leading the Windows virtualization push is. The advances in virtualization software in the past 5 years have made it possible to enjoy PC-only games on your Mac legally, even new releases, without needing to install Windows.
The test machine is a 2.4ghz Macbook Pro with a GeForce 8600M GT and 4gb of RAM. It will probably not work if either of those two prerequisites are not met.
The following how to was written for Intel Macs running Mac OS 10.6. The information that follows is left intact for historical purposes.
That means you can just Buy Sid Meier’s Civilization V for Mac OSX on Amazon. Since the publishing of this post, Aspyr has ported Civilization 5 to Mac OS X.