Intro Videos

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Chieftain
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Hey there civfanatics community.

I've played Civ4 a lot, and I used the weekend deal on steam to
finally purchase the 5th game.

But I do have a weird problem, whenever I start the game,
I have to actually watch the Intro video completely.
I can't stop it with ESC ore something else.
Nor the 2k or Gamespy Logos for that matter.

Couldn't find another thread about this topic, sorry.
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Groetjes
DerBüro
 
The video can not be skipped until all the game files have been loaded in the background. If you are playing from a laptop or otherwise weaker computer you might not finish loading before the video is over ;)

(it nearly takes 10 seconds to load on my mediocre system (a socket 775 quadcore that is))
 
Hey,

thanks for the quick answer.
I will try to skip it a few more times,
somewhen later in the video then.

I use a PC,
AMD Athlon X3 445, 3,11 GHz,
3,25 GB RAM and a Asus
EAH 5570 series graphics card...

I guess that counts as "weaker" ? :cry:
 
you can edit the usersettings.ini (documents\my games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5)

SkipIntroVideo = 0 (change into 1)


then instead of the video you get a black screen until all files are loaded
 
I'll change the .ini file jsut as you have suggested Thorged.
If it'll still take very long to load everything, I'll double check
my HDD.

But my other games seem to load just fine, so I hope changing
the .ini will do the trick.

Anyway, thanks for the help :goodjob:
 
That shouldn't really change the time it takes to load (though it might not have to load the video; unsure on that point); it'll just mean that you don't have to watch the video through the loading time over and over. ;)
 
Ok so i changed the .ini.
Now I have a black loading screen, but it definitely helps.
Loading the game files does not take as long as watching the video.
Thanks again folks.
 
you can edit the usersettings.ini (documents\my games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5)

SkipIntroVideo = 0 (change into 1)


then instead of the video you get a black screen until all files are loaded
thank you... for this.

its amazing that firaxis could not simply put a button on the video options screen --- watching that endless movie with ridiculously loud volumne on start up is absolutely unacceptable to me (and i imagine it annoys others to no end).

here has been my procedure each time i started the game (and btw I haven't bothered playing the game on occassion because i knew this horrible video awaited me):
step 1 - click on the game short cut
step 2 - press esc
step 3 - press space bar
step 4 - press return
step 5 - shake mouse and press buttons
step 6a - press esc, spacebar, return and random keys on my keyboard until i hear i high pitched beeping sound from my computer.
(optional - step 6b - press reset on my computer wait for to reboot and play different game)
step 7 - leave room
step 8 - look in options screen for a way to turn off horrible video
step 9 - rage

what a bad call firaxis
 
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