Civ 5 Manual

[terje439]

You can remove the intro video, but that would only leave you with a black screen. What is not known by all is that the intro video is in fact a loading screen, but unlike most other game you do not see some sort of progress bar.

Terje

[warspite1]

Thanks Terje439.

One other question: Do you know why I am given the choice of:

Play Sid Meiers Civilization V
Sid Meiers Civilization V (Direct X 9)

at the start?

[terje439]

The game is designed for DirectX 10 and 11, but alot of graphic cards does not support those, so you get the option to run it with DirectX 9.
(atleast this is what I have read at civfanatics...)
(DirectX 9 gives me better performance in game speed, but the graphics drops a little, something that does not bother me at all, since in my book, CiV ain't about graphic but game play anyway).

Terje

[JudgeDredd]

Yes, but what is annoying is it says to right click and create a shortcut for your option...which I did - then when I started the game from the shortcut, I got the same annoying menu.

And I found DX10 VERY sluggish after a while of playing...DX9 is fine though so far.

I think I don't see peoples beefs with Civ V and going back to Civ IV because I never really got into Civ IV - so Civ V is a breath of fresh air to me tbh.

[LarryP]

I renamed the intro video so it won't load and the game fires right up.

Also, with me, DX10 runs much faster than DX9.

One other thing too... I keep reading about the heat this Civ5 generates, and my laptop does NOT have good cooling and it runs it just like Civ4, cool. The complaints and remedies sure do vary. [X(]

[ezzler]

Never liked civ 4. Not a bit. In fact went back to civ 3 almost straight away.
But this one is keeping me up until the small hours.

Railroads are a b~gger though. Auto settlers destroying the economy with their railtracks.

[ilovestrategy]

I tried twice to get into Civ IV. Just wasn't my cup of tea. I got tired of the city cultures, seemed too much like micromanagement.