can't bypass the opening "movie"

[woodman6035]

Has anyone else had this problem? I tried hitting every button on the keyboard & mouse, but the game won't let me skip it.

 

[Alexfrog]

Yes, this pisses me off too.

 

[Slinko]

I have the same problem. I smash my enter/esc/left click until the movie goes away.

 

[dannythefool]

The movie will only stop when the game has finished loading. You can disable it in an ini file but then you'll get a black screen for around 20 seconds.

 

[ChristofferC]

I wonder why they didn't put a loading bar on the bottom of the loading screen (that's what the intro movie is). Maybe they think that breaks "immersion".

 

[nargulok]

Yeah this is another problem. I have to wait like 30 seconds before it lets me bypass it. I'm clicking the mouse, hitting escape, alt tabbing, everything I can think of to bypass it.

 

[V. Soma]

I read it on WePlayCiv:

Skipping the intro movie:

Before I go further, if you want to skip the intro movie permanently you can! Open windows explorer and browse to ..\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization V\ and open the file usersettings.ini in notepad (should be the default app). Find the line SkipIntoVideo and change the value to 1. Save, exit and restart Civ 5 and no longer have to wait for the intro movie.

 

[Spiceweasel]

Try holding down the mouse button until it goes away. For me, in DX11 mode, the animations have a really poor frame rate. I found that when I was clicking the mouse, it was happening too quickly for the computer to notice.

 

[Kerosene31]

The game is loading while the movie is playing. You can turn it off as mentioned before, but then you just get a blank screen while the game loads.

As soon as the game is done loading, you can skip the movie. (they could have put a status bar or something on this).

 

[shinkicker]

I read it on WePlayCiv:

Skipping the intro movie:

Before I go further, if you want to skip the intro movie permanently you can! Open windows explorer and browse to ..\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization V\ and open the file usersettings.ini in notepad (should be the default app). Find the line SkipIntoVideo and change the value to 1. Save, exit and restart Civ 5 and no longer have to wait for the intro movie.

This worked for me. In Vista, the path is "C:\Users\Valued Customer\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5"

There's still a short pause with a black screen, but it beats having to tolerate the splash screens and that repetitive intro.

 

[nekom]

Hitting tab seemed to work for me.

 

[bob_d]

Thanks for the advice on how to make the movie go away.

But it's a sort of bug that there's no way to make it go away without editing a hard-to-find .ini file. Considering how many years this game was in the making...

 

[TeddyBearsDoLie]

How is it a bug? As mentioned several times the game is loading while the intro movie is playing.

 

[acm2033]

Mine takes a while to go away as well.

I have 2 GB RAM, and I suspect that's why it's taking a while to load.

I just hit Escape once, and it will go away.

Civ on!

 

[aajiix]

How is it a bug? As mentioned several times the game is loading while the intro movie is playing.

Yes, it is stunning how few people actually bother to read through all the posts even in a short thread like this.

As for the topic, I too thought at first that there was something wrong because I couldn't skip the opening movie. But then I remembered playing Civ 1 on my 286 back in the day and there too I had to watch through almost the whole "Earth movie" until I finally got to play. So I figured that in this case too the game loads itself in the background and I see I was right.

 

[Robert_Marshall]

I remember having to wait with my '386 too. However, I can't stand this dang movie and I have only seen it twice. I changed the ini file and thanks for the heads up on the ini file guys (or gals.) I am so looking forward to the blank screen.

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support.

 

[Stalker0]

How is it a bug? As mentioned several times the game is loading while the intro movie is playing.

The main reason people are having problems with this is because using a movie for the initial loading screen (and not including a loading bar) is a poor UI choice.

Most games that have a movie at the beginning are doing it just to show the movie, and normally with the click of a key the movie goes away. That is how games have worked for a long time, so that is the natural tendency for people now. When a game doesn't do that, something feels wrong.

Take the new game load screen for example...the one where the guy is describing your civs background to you right before you start. In that screen you can't move either, but there is a nice little loading bar at the bottom that lets you know (hey you can't leave this screen right now, but that's okay, its because the game is loading).

 

[Corvak]

Dawn of War II uses the same setup. It just goes to a loading screen for a longer amount of time if the movie is skipped.