Aspyr Media today announced the release of Civilization IV Beta 1.61 Rev A, a free patch the new Mac strategy game. This update offers better performance on certain Macs (particularly G5’s) that exhibited excessive CPU use in the original release — the game should no longer run dual CPU’s to 100% capacity; and some missing sounds will now play correctly — other sounds may still be inaudible, but a future official release of the Rev A patch will address those.