And if you plan on trying to play a game entirely on battery (good luck), maybe even go Tiny or Duel.Īlso, since you're running in Boot Camp, if you bought your copy via Steam or some other multi-platform option, consider running it on the Mac side. But my preferred size is Standard, which doesn't (usually) seem to start taxing my fan until mid-game. Less data, fewer civs, fewer city-states, fewer megacities (for my civs, anyway), better all-around performance. I'll occasionally play a Large map, but I usually won't go larger than that. This will be less relevant (maybe irrelevant?) if you switch to strategic view. Again, the less work the GPU is doing, the better your battery life will be. Turn off movement and combat animation.It may improve battery life as well, by being considerably less taxing to the GPU. It's ugly, but in my experience (particularly late game), it performs much better than the pretty 3D rendered view. So, some other things you can try include: You'd be surprised how much THAT eats.Īside from the brightness, generally speaking, anything that improves overall game performance is likely to improve battery performance while playing. That's always been my #1 battery-saving tip for anyone: Drop the display brightness.
In order to even get that much, I typically find myself turning the brightness on the display as far down as I can, while still being able to see it. I've played Civ 5 on this machine, on battery, successfully, but it was never pleasant - and I was never able to get more than about 45 minutes out of the game before I felt I had to exit the game and put the machine to sleep. The Civilization games are extremely CPU- and GPU-intensive on this setup. Is possible.) So it sounds like we're on similar setups. (I've also tried them in Windows via Parallels, which. I've run them in both Mac OS and Windows, via Boot Camp. I have a MacBook Pro from 2011 (17", 16 GB RAM) that I use to run Civ 5 and Beyond Earth.
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