Civilization V Forum

I was quite enjoying the game (once I got over the grey terrain - the suggestions of putting some of the settings up worked for me. Though I did not put them all up.) then it glitched and froze. I rebooted and now I can not start it again. I get the error from the subject title. Please advise.

Did you reboot just the game, the bottle or the whole computer?

At that point I had to hard reboot the computer as it froze. I have soft reboot multiple times before.

(Thank you for your time by the way)

Did you try the integrity check?

In Steam: Right click on Demo -> Properties -> Local Files -> Verify integrity of game cache

At what point are you getting that error? I assume Steam is starting up. You're getting the dialog asking if you want to play the DirectX 11 or DirectX 9 version (at which you should select the DirectX 9 version)? Then... ?

Do you get the odd blank window/screen as it tries to play the opening movie? Do you get to the game menu? Please explain exactly how far it gets.

Also, Civ V keeps its settings in ~/Documents/My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 5. You can try editing settings in the .ini files in there, or maybe moving them to the trash to restore the defaults. You can even try renaming that whole folder to restore everything about the game to its defaults. If you can get the game working again, you can recover your saved games from in there.

Oh, and another thing:

If a full-screen game crashes or hangs, you may get stuck. It should not be necessary to power down your Mac, though. Press Command-Option-R to force CrossOver out of full-screen mode, so you can access its menus. Then, you can use the tools in the Manage Bottles window to kill the stuck process(es): either the Task Manager control panel or the Quit Bottle / Force Quit Bottle buttons.

If for some reason that doesn't work, you can try force quitting CrossOver using Command-Option-Escape followed by Return.

If your computer really did totally freeze up, then that's a serious problem that can't really be the fault of CrossOver or any Windows program that it runs. It must be a bug in the Mac OS X kernel, some kernel-level software like the graphics driver, or the Windows Server. It might even be a hardware issue, like the GPU overheating. Even if, hypothetically, CrossOver were trying to freeze up your system, it's the OS's responsibility to prevent that.

It was happening when I chose which version (DirectX9) and didn't load anything up.

I checked integrity of files and that fixed it. Although it has just happened again. I think because I am further in the game and it is being more resource intensive.

I'm also using windowed mode in hopes that it will be less stressful.

Thanks for everoyne's help.

I'm getting this same problem. I haven't been able to launch the game yet (although the demo worked). I get to the Launch Civ V or Civ C (DirectX9) screen. If I select DirectX9, it says its finishing installing, gets to 96%, and then 0% just before the window closes and nothing happens. If I select the non-DirectX9 option, I see the "Serious Problem" window half the time, there's no sign anything happened the other time. The game enver appears to try to launch. After that I verify the local cache, there's always 1 file wrong, and this cycle repeats.

After typign this up, I tried validating 3 times in a row. Every time there was one file that wasn't good.

Deleted local content and installed again. Same problem :( Is there a safe mode trick or anything to this game I'm missing?

Well, I tried the next thing on the solution list after doing some house work. I created a new bottle.

Wouldn't you know it works so far.

My guess as to why it didn't work is all of the tweaks taken to get Recettear to work, mainly instaleld the "old" DirectX 9. That at least solves my problem.

Zach - have you tried a fresh bottle?