Civ 5 will not launch at all.

ConnorM88

Chieftain

Jan 16, 2013

Hello my friends!! I recently purchased Civ 5 through Steam and unfortunately it isn't working too well for me. What is happening is that I'll launch it through either 10, 9, or even 8 but all that occurs is a black window and it disappears. Nothing! I can keep repeating the process but nothing goes on from there, so I need you, the people of the Civ 5 community, to help me, a soon-to-be leader who will bring glory to his civilization!!

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The_J

Say No 2 Net Validations

Administrator

Supporter

Jan 17, 2013

I have my doubts that an Intel Atom is strong enough at all.
The bigger problem is that there does not seem to be a dedicated graphics card (or even a better integrated one), or at least there's no driver information about it.
Since the graphics cards driver is from 2009, you're strongly adviced to update it (check the Dell website), but I have my doubts that Dell updated them...which would be unfortunate, because then you probably don't have any way to play the game :sad:

timtofly

One Day

Jan 17, 2013

If this is a desktop, go out and buy a new video card. Your system will handle the game, just fine, but you are lacking a Graphics Card.