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TheMarshmallowBear
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Nope, I believe Steam broke the version of the editor recently.
geolawyerman
Chieftain
If you end the steam task and then go in to the folder where you have worldbuilder and open it up, it will work and steam will reopen automatically. If you close out of worldbuilder and want to reopen it through this process, you have to shut down your computer and start it up again.
Cripes! I haven't had a chnace to try it yet. Oh, well.
geolawyerman
Chieftain
There's a better explanation on the steam forums.
geolawyerman
Chieftain
1. Exit steam from task manager (Just end the steam.exe process)
2. Go to the SDK directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V SDK\WorldBuilder\x89 (This might change depending on your OS and installation configurations)
3. Double click the WorldBuilder application to launch it
When WB launches Steam will re-open automatically
2. Go to the SDK directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V SDK\WorldBuilder\x89 (This might change depending on your OS and installation configurations)
3. Double click the WorldBuilder application to launch it
When WB launches Steam will re-open automatically
Got all that, it still never finishes loading. Hasn't since the last steam update. Deleted SDK... rebooted and re-installed.
notta - nothing - zip
geolawyerman
Chieftain
Weird. It worked for me.
http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?215716-If-you-re-having-troubles-launching-WorldBuilder
This works like a treat.
1) Open the Civilization V SDK entry from within Steam. This will display the Launcher which allows you to choose between ModBuddy, WorldBuilder, the Tuner etc.
2) Right click anywhere on the launcher and select "Create Desktop Shortcut to WorldBuilder". This will create a shortcut on your desktop that goes directly to WorldBuilder.
*Here's where the work around starts*
3) Locate the WorldBuilder desktop shortcut and right click on it, then select Properties.
4) Select the "Shortcut Tab".
5) Where it says Target:, Add just after the last " -PromptForGamePath.
Your target should look something like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V SDK\WorldBuilder\x86\WorldBuilder.exe" -PromptForGamePath
*NOTE that -PromptForGamePath happens AFTER the quotation mark.
6) Launch the Shortcut. This will bring up a new dialog asking if you'd like to manually select a Civ5 exe. Say Yes.
7) Navigate to where your Civ5 exe is stored.
For me, it was C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\CivilizationV.exe
Hit OK!
8) You will notice the Civ5 Launcher comes up.. Select the DX9 version of Civ.
9) Everything should be good to go!
This works like a treat.
1) Open the Civilization V SDK entry from within Steam. This will display the Launcher which allows you to choose between ModBuddy, WorldBuilder, the Tuner etc.
2) Right click anywhere on the launcher and select "Create Desktop Shortcut to WorldBuilder". This will create a shortcut on your desktop that goes directly to WorldBuilder.
*Here's where the work around starts*
3) Locate the WorldBuilder desktop shortcut and right click on it, then select Properties.
4) Select the "Shortcut Tab".
5) Where it says Target:, Add just after the last " -PromptForGamePath.
Your target should look something like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V SDK\WorldBuilder\x86\WorldBuilder.exe" -PromptForGamePath
*NOTE that -PromptForGamePath happens AFTER the quotation mark.
6) Launch the Shortcut. This will bring up a new dialog asking if you'd like to manually select a Civ5 exe. Say Yes.
7) Navigate to where your Civ5 exe is stored.
For me, it was C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\CivilizationV.exe
Hit OK!
8) You will notice the Civ5 Launcher comes up.. Select the DX9 version of Civ.
9) Everything should be good to go!
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Deity
That method leads for me to an error message saying that World Builder can't run while the game is running (even when the game is not running). So no luck with that either.
I would recommend restarting your computer, opening Steam, launch SDK, right click on Worldbuilder to create the shortcut, fix the shortcut as instructed and then restart again.
After restarting, make sure Steam is not running (just in case), and then launch WB from the shortcut. Identify the path to your CIV V exe and then select the DX9 option.
After I did all that, the shortcut worked and WB launched. I then shut down WB and restarted again and relaunched again from the shortcut--also worked (you do have to specify the path to your CIV V exe file each time you launch).
After restarting, make sure Steam is not running (just in case), and then launch WB from the shortcut. Identify the path to your CIV V exe and then select the DX9 option.
After I did all that, the shortcut worked and WB launched. I then shut down WB and restarted again and relaunched again from the shortcut--also worked (you do have to specify the path to your CIV V exe file each time you launch).
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