After 500 driver update downloads and 60000 "civilization V demo has stopped working" I've found a way to make it work.
First of all, problem in short:
When starting the civilization demo on steam I would usually see the first part of the introvideo (The rating of the game on a black background) and then I would get the error message "civilization V demo has stopped working".
Fix:
My game was located in /C:/Username/Documents/Mygames (something like that), what I did is that I used the option "cut out" to cut out the documents folder and then I pasted the documents folder at /C: so the path would just be /c:/documents/mygames/civ V demo etc and VOILA, just played through the 150 turns as Persia, oh Persia.
Dont know how many times this have been posted but I couldnt actually find this fix in the civfanatics forums, only in the 2k forums, so I decided I might aswell give you my 2 cents of how I got the Demo to work.
I do not know if this will make any change for an American with the full game.
As some might already have guessed I am myself an European still 2 days away from the full game!
TL : DR = The main thing seems to be to move the documentsfolder (which your civilization V demo should be located in somewhere) to an easier-to-reach folder. Example: Moved from /C:/users/username >>> /C:/.
Anyways, I hope this can be helpfull!
First of all, problem in short:
When starting the civilization demo on steam I would usually see the first part of the introvideo (The rating of the game on a black background) and then I would get the error message "civilization V demo has stopped working".
Fix:
My game was located in /C:/Username/Documents/Mygames (something like that), what I did is that I used the option "cut out" to cut out the documents folder and then I pasted the documents folder at /C: so the path would just be /c:/documents/mygames/civ V demo etc and VOILA, just played through the 150 turns as Persia, oh Persia.
Dont know how many times this have been posted but I couldnt actually find this fix in the civfanatics forums, only in the 2k forums, so I decided I might aswell give you my 2 cents of how I got the Demo to work.
I do not know if this will make any change for an American with the full game.
As some might already have guessed I am myself an European still 2 days away from the full game!
TL : DR = The main thing seems to be to move the documentsfolder (which your civilization V demo should be located in somewhere) to an easier-to-reach folder. Example: Moved from /C:/users/username >>> /C:/.
Anyways, I hope this can be helpfull!
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