This is very annoying

[Naokaukodem]

I usually let my PC on idle when i don't use it.

So i was gonna use it again, pressed a key of the keyboard and launched Civ5. It already did it to me, that Civ5 thinks i'm not online to that point. It displays the according message and ask me if I want to play offline or cancel.

The thing being that this time, it froze. I used the alt+del+ctrl old trick to end steam processus. Bad idea, but what could I do ?

Now, when I'm lauching Civ5, it displays again the DX9/DX11 box, whereas it did not display before. Direct X 11 option is greyed out and IP can't clic on it. When I right clic on it and choose "DX11 shortcut on desktop", it does nothing, beside overwriting my actual link.

Now, I have under the icon of the shortcut "Sid Meier Civilization 5 (Direct X 11)"

The thing being that the box where to choose from Direct X 9or 11 still appears, with still the direct x 11 being greyed out !

What the heck ?!

Do you have a solution for this problem ?

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support.

For the solution please see here.

 

[zevel]

I used the alt+del+ctrl old trick to end steam processus

You need to end your civ process not your steam process. Looks like your PC still has the "CivilizationV_DX11.exe" process running. Have you tried a system restart ?

 

[Naokaukodem]

Have you tried a system restart ?

Yep.

TheJ : it works but what bothers me now is that i still have to select which version from a box, what wasn't the case before when I put a Direct X 11 shortcut on my deskstop.

 

[FeiLing]

I never had any problem like this, but I can't see why letting a link point to (or create a shortcut from that exe) would not work as expected (start civ v in dx 11 mode):

X:\whateverwherever\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\CivilizationV_DX11.exe