Try disabling the Intro video on the settings.
Also, if possible, try to update your drivers.
Civ 5 won't start!!!
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Try disabling the Intro video on the settings.
Also, if possible, try to update your drivers.
Meshakhad
Chieftain
How do I do those things?
To disable the intro: Go to Mydocuments/Mygames/CivilizationV and open Usersettings.ini, look for Skipintrovideo, change the = 0 to = 1, then save and exit. The next time you enter the game the intro will be skipped (Although it will need to load regardless).
For the drivers, I'm not sure, try looking for the provider website if they got newer drivers, but that's not a certain since that graphic card seems to be incompatible with the game.
For the drivers, I'm not sure, try looking for the provider website if they got newer drivers, but that's not a certain since that graphic card seems to be incompatible with the game.
Johnb10000
Chieftain
I just upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and the game stopped working.
Yesterday it worked when using Vista. Today I upgraded to Windows 7 and get the black box that disappears after a few seconds or locks up and stays on the screen.
The video driver is NVIDIA.
Changing the ini setting to skip the intro video changed it from a black box to a white box that stays on the screen.
Yesterday it worked when using Vista. Today I upgraded to Windows 7 and get the black box that disappears after a few seconds or locks up and stays on the screen.
The video driver is NVIDIA.
Changing the ini setting to skip the intro video changed it from a black box to a white box that stays on the screen.
Johnb10000
Chieftain
It is a combination of the Video drivers and the Dell M1730 has an overheating problem on the motherboard.
I downloaded the video drivers and installer directly from Nvida and the problems still occurred. I used the Nvidia control panel to disable about every option to finally get the game to work.
I was getting a lot of video glitches and lockups before upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. I was hoping the problems would go away after reformatting and installing a new operating system. Unfortunately I have been reading about a lot of complaints with the Dell computer overheating.
superbulate
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what if it is box installed? why wont it still start?
MajKira
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Maybe you mean during first upstart as Cutscenes is playing?
You can disable Intro movie in the ini.file thru editor to get directly into game
You can disable Intro movie in the ini.file thru editor to get directly into game
MajKira
King
Navigate to My Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization V/ on a PC or ~/Documents/Aspyr/Sid Meier's Civilization 5 on a Mac.
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
I had the prob stucking intro always
Navigate to the Civilization 5 game settings location. This is usually Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\
In this folder you will see various files ending with .ini extension. Open any one of these files with a text editor such as Notepad and you are good to go. Some of the files you may find inside include:
Usersettings.ini holds user preferences
GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini graphics settings for DirectX 9 mode
GraphicsSettingsDX11.ini graphics settings for DirectX 10/11 modes
Config.ini general game preferences
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
I had the prob stucking intro always
Navigate to the Civilization 5 game settings location. This is usually Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\
In this folder you will see various files ending with .ini extension. Open any one of these files with a text editor such as Notepad and you are good to go. Some of the files you may find inside include:
Usersettings.ini holds user preferences
GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini graphics settings for DirectX 9 mode
GraphicsSettingsDX11.ini graphics settings for DirectX 10/11 modes
Config.ini general game preferences
timtofly
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Is it possible to even run DirectX11 on that card?
Actually I am having a very similar problem to that of nnahoj_84, when I choose direct 9.0 nothing happens and when I choose 10/11 a message that civ5 is not repsonding appears.
Anyway MajKira thank you once again for your help but nothing seems to work. I corrected the Usersettings.ini file as you said but nothing changed........
Anyway MajKira thank you once again for your help but nothing seems to work. I corrected the Usersettings.ini file as you said but nothing changed........
timtofly
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I do not think that your video card can handle the game.
Sporaticus
Drooling Barbarian
For what it's worth:
Last year, I upgraded my quad-core XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 5570 and the game would not start. I finally got around to re-installing via Steam and it works again. Thanks to this thread and forum for making the solution an easy one to find!!!!
Now I just have to re-learn the game again.....
Last year, I upgraded my quad-core XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 5570 and the game would not start. I finally got around to re-installing via Steam and it works again. Thanks to this thread and forum for making the solution an easy one to find!!!!
Now I just have to re-learn the game again.....
Geo Da Sponge
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Okay, I'm having a similar problem here, and I've already tried half a dozen things to try and fix it. First thing I should point out is that when I first downloaded the game as part of a free weekend on Steam, it ran fine on average settings. However when I bought I went for the Game of the Year edition that came out with numerous pieces of DLC; ever since downloading those the game refuses to run at all, getting a few seconds into the intro screens before crashing.
Because of the way Steam works I can't remove the DLC without uninstalling the game entirely, and I've been pulling my hair out over this, since I have tried:
- Uninstalling and redownloading the game (Admittedly only once)
- Doing my best to update my graphics drivers
- Verifying the integrity of the game cache (Multiple times; each time I try to run the game it gets a new file that turns up bad for it to redownload, I assume it's always the same one since it's always the same size)
- Turning off the intro videos
- Deleting the file ClientRegistry.blob in my Steam folder based off an obscure forum post that suggested it
I'm going to add my DxDiag file as well, but like I said, it ran just fine on DirectX 10/11 mode before I got the DLC. I'm currently redownloading the game to see if that works this time, but any advice would be appreciated.
Because of the way Steam works I can't remove the DLC without uninstalling the game entirely, and I've been pulling my hair out over this, since I have tried:
- Uninstalling and redownloading the game (Admittedly only once)
- Doing my best to update my graphics drivers
- Verifying the integrity of the game cache (Multiple times; each time I try to run the game it gets a new file that turns up bad for it to redownload, I assume it's always the same one since it's always the same size)
- Turning off the intro videos
- Deleting the file ClientRegistry.blob in my Steam folder based off an obscure forum post that suggested it
I'm going to add my DxDiag file as well, but like I said, it ran just fine on DirectX 10/11 mode before I got the DLC. I'm currently redownloading the game to see if that works this time, but any advice would be appreciated.
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