Disable Intro Video

[WeaselSlapper]

For those of you who are interested in disabling the intro video here are some instructions:

Navigate to My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization V/
Look for the file "Usersettings.ini" and open it in a text editor like Notepad
Search for the variable "SkipIntroVideo = 0"
Change the 0 to 1

Enjoy

 

[Sefren]

Thanks. I'm enjoying it as I type.

 

[mrhell]

Great, now I can get to the crash way faster.

 

[Brudewollen]

Thank you. I was having a problem where the intro video would start in a window and I couldn't click past it. (It's a lovely intro, but it's buggy and I don't need to see it every time I play.)

 

[motor_ola]

I had solved it myself by renaming the movie-file, but this is a much more elegant solution, thanks.

 

[WeaselSlapper]

Mods, not to toot my own horn, but you might want to sticky this thred

 

[The_J]

I've already added the instructions to the FAQ, that should be enough.

 

[Quboid]

I found this but there's still a delay, with a black screen rather than a video. Not much of an improvement. Is there any way to properly skip this?

 

[hanterp]

I found this but there's still a delay, with a black screen rather than a video. Not much of an improvement. Is there any way to properly skip this?

I agree, a black screen here too for the length of the movie.

 

[motor_ola]

I think the intro movies were covering up a loadscreen, so without them it still has to load the game. Only solution is to RAID SSDs

 

[WeaselSlapper]

I agree, a black screen here too for the length of the movie.

I do get a black screen as well, but the black screen is shorter then the time before I could skip the rest of the video and my processor churns much less. I do wish there was a way to skip it entirely, but I think they did the video in place of a generic loading screen.

 

[WeaselSlapper]

I think the intro moves were covering up a loadscreen, so without them it still has to load the game.

On my weak system I think the game loads faster without the processor having to work on the video at the same time.

 

[eris]

It would make sense to me that if they put in the option to skip the movie and they needed something to cover the disk transfer and set up time, then a quick still shot would be a lot better than a black screen. That's what they get for not having me on their beta test team. I would have got that one right away!

 

[Furiey]

It would make sense to me that if they put in the option to skip the movie and they needed something to cover the disk transfer and set up time, then a quick still shot would be a lot better than a black screen. That's what they get for not having me on their beta test team. I would have got that one right away!

Yes, even a simple moving icon to show it was doing something would be better than black. I always turn the opening movies off, sitting through the same thing again and again (ie: more than once) gets annoying.

 

[Martock]

Is there a way to start the game without having the beginning video always run on start up? It seems to take forever to bypass it when it does start up.

 

[tatterdemalion]

Yeah, ditto, having to watch the father/son conversation everytime I start the game is getting very irritating.

 

[Darth Fred]

I think it's ctrl+enter that skips it. As best I can tell, there's no way to disable it though I hope I'm wrong (I'm looking for that answer too).

Also, all I'm using at this point is the demo and I don't know if that matters or not.
F

 

[Davir]

go into the folde Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5 and find UserSeting.ini and find SkipIntroVideo = 0 and change 9 to 1

and you have done it

 

[Gvaz]

You can do the above, but it doesn't fully go away because it hides a loading screen. They really need to add at least a "LOADING" icon.

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Threads merged.

Guys, plese use the search function and look at the stickies before you open a new therad. This problem has already been addressed here.