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While Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide offers a massive overhaul to the base game’s mechanics, the actual technical overhead is quite manageable for most modern PCs. Because it functions as an expansion pack, your system generally needs to be capable of running the original Beyond Earth smoothly before layering on the new aquatic and diplomatic features.
Review of Requirements:
Base Game: The expansion requires Civilization: Beyond Earth. While Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising
To download and run Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide Aquatic City-states: These are new types of city-states
| Aspect | Minimum | Recommended | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | OS | macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or higher | macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or newer | | Processor | 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | 3.0 GHz Intel Core i5 or Apple M1/M2 | | RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB | | Graphics | 256 MB VRAM (Intel HD 4000 / NVIDIA 330M) | 1 GB VRAM (NVIDIA 750M / AMD R9 M290) | | Storage | 13 GB | 13 GB (SSD required for Apple Silicon) | | Additional | Does not support macOS 10.15 (Catalina) 32-bit fallback? – Update: It’s fully 64-bit, but some legacy graphics modes are limited. | While Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising