Two, Civ V would get the most benefit from a reduced memory footprint because of the way the game works.
#4K CIVILIZATION V IMAGE UPDATE#
It was important to us that if we were to spend the time, money, and resources on an update that we knew wouldn't make any money, it really needed to benefit the most amount of users as possible. One, Civ V is by far the biggest game on the Mac. We chose Civ V as the focus for this effort for two reasons:
Essentially OpenCL (used properly) allows you to shift computing processes over to the GPU, thereby reducing the overall memory footprint of the game. MacRumors and we will get the edit out asap.
#4K CIVILIZATION V IMAGE FULL#
The OpenCL update does NOT take advantage of the second card, but rather focuses solely on taking full advantage of the OpenCL framework so that iMac and MBP owners would see benefits as well. Do we have any more information on how it's being used? Is it being used to power the AI? Effects like the ocean or whatever?Hey guys, our apologies but the blog post that is being quoted here has an error. OpenCL is a compute technology, not a graphics technology per se. I mean, lots of GPUs (and CPUs) support OpenCL, so that should benefit people who own iMacs and MBPs as well. I'm much more interested in the use of OpenCL than 4K support. We have also updated this post with a full-resolution 4K screenshot of Civilization V. An Aspyr spokesperson explained that the update "focuses on the OpenCL framework so that more processes are centered around the GPU, thereby reducing the overall memory footprint" and that the company "made the decision to focus on one card so that all other ATI and NVIDIA setups would benefit from the structure instead of JUST the Mac Pro." The Civilization V update does not utilize both video cards in the Mac Pro. Aspyr has updated its blog post and reached out to MacRumors to issue a correction. Update 8:53AM PDT : A prior version of this post claimed that Civilization V takes full advantage of both video cards on the Mac Pro, based on information provided by Aspyr via a blog post and press release. The game is being offered for 50% off temporarily on the GameAgent store alongside the update. Click the image for a full-sized 4K screenshotĬivilization V is available on the Mac from the Mac App Store, Steam, and Aspyr's GameAgent digital store.
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