How to play DX10\11 (button messed up, Win Vista)
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warpstorm
Yumbo? Yumbo!
What OS?
Minmaster
Prince
upgrade from XP. XP is dx9 only.
tokala
Emperor
Seems to be a deeper probem. Dx10 card on Win7 64 bit here, still no eye candy
Says I need SP2. There is no such thing, not even SP1 yet
Looks not that much better than FFH, und is way to slow for how it looks. I suspect DX9 is not really optimized, or if it is, then for low quality graphics ...
AZSportsFan
Warlord
Did it place a _DX11 exe in your download? Perhaps the demo doesn't include it?
tokala
Emperor
Yes it did, but it falls back to the "chose DX" splash screen, where only DX9 is available.
Seems to be a deeper probem. Dx10 card on Win7 64 bit here, still no eye candy
Says I need SP2. There is no such thing, not even SP1 yet
Looks not that much better than FFH, und is way to slow for how it looks. I suspect DX9 is not really optimized, or if it is, then for low quality graphics ...
Steam might think you are running vista (try help-> system information in steam)
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam, right click on steam.exe, go to properties, got compatability, click on change settings for all users. Unselect "run this program in compatability mode"
tokala
Emperor
That did the trick. Thanks a lot
For whatever reason steam had installed itself in Vista compatibility mode. Never touched the steam.exe before
AZSportsFan
Warlord
Make sure that you verify the installation files. It had an issue with the _DX11 exe for me, I verified the cache (in Steam/Library/Games, right click on Civ 5, select Properties/Local Files/Verify Integrity of Game Cache) and it downloaded a new version of the exe, which worked fine.
Verified game cache. Updated my graphics card drivers and my DX10.1 installation. Upon launching the game I see this:
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3255/dx1011.jpg
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3255/dx1011.jpg
Hmm...everybody else who has had this problem was running Steam in compability mode, it would be strange if you werent (I assume you have checked).
Likes_Civing
Warlord
DX 11
I have a Win7 64 bit box running DX 10/11 or so the splash screen gave me a choice on that when loading. Sweet.
Downstairs on main box with a GT240, I have XP so only Dx9. Fine.
Down here at 9 the FOW is clouds floating past. On the DX10/11 laptop it is a 3D like black.
Is that normal? Black on one clouds for folks on 9?
thanks guys.
I have a Win7 64 bit box running DX 10/11 or so the splash screen gave me a choice on that when loading. Sweet.
Downstairs on main box with a GT240, I have XP so only Dx9. Fine.
Down here at 9 the FOW is clouds floating past. On the DX10/11 laptop it is a 3D like black.
Is that normal? Black on one clouds for folks on 9?
thanks guys.
tokala
Emperor
Yepp, solution came up another thread in the meantime.
The update it requires is D3D11Install.exe (Dx11 is backwards compatible with DX10, but the game needs some DX11 updates to work).
If you got it through Steam, you can right-click the steam icon, click "open file location", and then browse from there to ...Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\DirectX
If you got it through Steam, you can right-click the steam icon, click "open file location", and then browse from there to ...Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\DirectX
