Failure to Launch Workaround (AVX2 Related)

[Bob Loblaw]

It seems that the problem with launching for a lot of people is caused by a lack of avx2 support.

Intel has a software development emulator that can at least get the game running. Performance seems pretty bad, although it does improve a little over time.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/software-development-emulator.html


I'm in linux so, I just dropped the linux SDE files (downloaded above) in the linux binary directory. I edited the launcher script "Civ7_linux_Vulkan.sh" to use the eumlator to run the game.

 
#./Civ7_linux_Vulkan_FinalRelease $@

./sde -hsw -emu-xinuse 0 -- "/home/craig/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VII/Base/Binaries/linux/Civ7_linux_Vulkan_FinalRelease" $@

The # indicates I commented out the original text and replaced it with the text under it. -hsw refers to haswell as its the lowest arch with avx2 and the following text should improve permormance.