If you can get it to work, then add other things back in one by one until you find which one causes the problem. If you update directx, video & sound drivers, and still have problems, then try unplugging any peripherals apart from very basic mouse and keyboard, disabling any unusual software, re-installing with anti-virus briefly disabled. Or out of date sound card drivers, unusual custom keyboard settings, or anything else really. Civilization V keeps crashing : In this case, the game keeps crashing unexpectedly either in-game or when launching. Or Aero frames in vista / win 7 (the 'glassy' window border style) has been known to cause crashes. Civ 5 won’t launch after DirectX selection: Whenever you launch the game, you are asked to select a DirectX version.

For some nvidia drivers, I've known turning Ambient Occlusion off on the control panel (even though according to nvidia it is always off except for games explicitly included in a list of theirs) to stop crashes. And if you have a steam download, verify the game cache (or re-download) because installs can occasionally be incomplete but unaware of it.īut on a PC there are 1001 unanticipated hardware / OS settings that might cause problems. The obvious things to attempt are ensuring you have the latest version of DirectX and video drivers.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this. My NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS has its latest drivers.

I'm running Win 7 Pro 64bit, 4 GB, IntelCore2 at 2.4GHz. It's early still, but has anyone else run into this problem or do you have suggestions? I have tried turning off the opening movie in the UserSettings.ini file but that didn't help. I have the latest version of DirectX 11, which I also reinstalled just to be sure the dlls were up to date. I installed Steam & Civ 5 today and the DirectX 9 version loads, but I get an instant Application Crash when trying to run the DirectX 10/11 version.

Civ v crashes when starting game