Civilization V Forum

Anyone,

For ~1 month I have enjoyed playing Civ V on my workstation (Dell Precision M6500). Originally, with CrossOver Pro. With the latest update (or at least that is best I can determine) from Steam, the prompt to manually select DX9 is gone and the "Preparing to launch Sid Meier's Civilization V..." is the only indication anything is happening. About 1 out of 10 attempts of launching Civ V from the Steam tray-icon will succeed. Normally, the launching dialog just dies after a few seconds.

Today I downloaded the CrossOver Games 9.2.0 package. It installed everything much smoother; but the general behavior of launching Civ V is identical.

Has anyone else seen similar behavior? What additional information can I provide?

Thanks.

Andrew

I have seen similar behavior. I don't use the Steam tray icon (it's not usually accessible in CrossOver on the Mac). When I launch Civ V from the Steam window, I get the "Preparing to launch" dialog several times in a row. It's random have many times, from like 2 to ~12. Eventually, Civ V does launch.

However, one time I closed the Steam window while it was doing that dance with the repeated "Preparing to launch" dialogs, and they just stopped and Civ V didn't launch.

So, I suspect that Steam only keeps trying so long as its window is open. Since you run with it minimized and use its tray icon, that's never. If it doesn't work the first time, you have to launch it again manually.

Mind you, the repeated dialogs are a symptom of something going wrong. We don't yet know what it is or why it's happening. But for now, launching from the open Steam window and letting it retry a bunch of times is a viable workaround.

I am getting the same response for civ V except this is my first install of civ 5 using corssover games 9.2.0. NO prompt for dx9. I am using LM isadora 9 64 bit. After several "preparing to launch" it loads to a black screen with no sound. But sorry still trying to figure something out

Armen

Have you waited a good while (a minute or two) for the black screen to go away and the game to come up? What is happening is that Civ V is playing (or thinks it's playing) its intro video. The video display is obviously not working in CrossOver. Also, it doesn't appear you can cancel the video. (I don't know if that part is a CrossOver issue or a game issue.)

However, if you give it enough time, it will "finish" and the game will start.

Ken Thomases wrote:

Have you waited a good while (a minute or two) for the black screen
to go away and the game to come up? What is happening is that Civ V
is playing (or thinks it's playing) its intro video. The video
display is obviously not working in CrossOver. Also, it doesn't
appear you can cancel the video. (I don't know if that part is a
CrossOver issue or a game issue.)

However, if you give it enough time, it will "finish" and the game
will start.

In Civ under windows, you can cancel it, by hitting escape, at a certain point, but it doesn't always work. In all installations of my versions of it, I have the user init file set to not display the video, as viewing it once or twice was enough...so consider this a benefit of crossover :D

But, yeah, Ken's right, it will black screen for a while, but eventually come up. This is my experience under crossover with Snow Leopard on both my MacBook Pro and Mini.

I waited for a while then the Civ V mouse point comes up and I can move it around. However the screen is still black. Any pointers on how to fix this.

Same here, after waiting minute or two mouse pointer comes up and that's it.

Screen is left blank.

Any hints would be nice!

People encountering this issue should open support tickets.