Civ 5 no longer launches

[barzyk]

After nVidia update, Civ 5 crashes after "updating executable" message. Icon just goes back to "Play" and nothing happens. I'm running Win 11 with a RTX 3090 card. Anyone else having this issue? I'm not buying Civ 7 until I know it will run.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by barzyk:

Civ 5 no longer launches

After nVidia update, Civ 5 crashes after "updating executable" message. Icon just goes back to "Play" and nothing happens. I'm running Win 11 with a RTX 3090 card. Anyone else having this issue? I'm not buying Civ 7 until I know it will run.

CIV V forum... https://steamcommunity.com/app/8930/discussions/

[ƝՕϹ]

There have been times where an NVIDIA update made a game unplayable. My only experience with this was an update that made me unable to play Halo Infinite until there was a new software update I could download weeks later.

If my situation is happening to you, then on that board you'll soon find other people complaining and also directions and how to undo the update.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Noc:

There have been times where an NVIDIA update made a game unplayable. My only experience with this was an update that made me unable to play Halo Infinite until there was a new software update I could download weeks later.

If my situation is happening to you, then on that board you'll soon find other people complaining and also directions and how to undo the update.

You could downgrade it or contact nvidia support. I had to do both downgrade and contact nvidia when i played AC Valhalla for not starting. Found that downgrading did help my game, albeit with crashing every 4-5 hours.

[Zylva]

Odd that a new NVIDIA update would affect Civilization V out of nowhere.

Have you tried verifying the integrity of the game's files?

To do so, right-click the game in your Steam library, then go to Properties, then "Installed Files," and click "Verify integrity of software files." It might take a while depending on the game's size. Or else you could reinstall the game and see if that fixes your issue. If not, then your only solution would be to install an older NVIDIA driver; if you know which one you were using, just google it and you'll quickly find its installation file.

[TheTrippyHippie]

I have had that problem in widows 11 and Linux and still do, I think it could be more Valves end if I am honest ,I have had this happen with a few games lately like say on both win11 and linux

some of them you can keep hitting launch 4 - 5 times then it works and there after launches every time some simply won't launch after you have installed it uninstalling and reinstalling the game/s dose not fix the issue.

but it is annoying that for is sure, Valve should look in to this. maybe Valve needs to update the client software or at the very least look into it.

Oh and the system uses an AMD GPU so prob's not just an Nvidia driver issue.

[Lithurge]

The updating executable bug happens across a lot of 2K games, I haven't dug into it too deeply but it seemed to start happening around the time they removed the crappy launcher they forced on everybody. This was long before the most recent Nvidia drivers so that's most likely a coincidence and it affects Win 10, so it's not a Win 11 issue.

They claimed to have fixed it on Xcom, but it didn't work for me. There've been a lot of suggested fixes across forums, but as far as I can see it's just random if it suddenly decides to work.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Raven Silva:

Odd that a new NVIDIA update would affect Civilization V out of nowhere.

Have you tried verifying the integrity of the game's files?

To do so, right-click the game in your Steam library, then go to Properties, then "Installed Files," and click "Verify integrity of software files." It might take a while depending on the game's size. Or else you could reinstall the game and see if that fixes your issue. If not, then your only solution would be to install an older NVIDIA driver; if you know which one you were using, just google it and you'll quickly find its installation file.

NOT That odd. Alot of times Nvidia or AMD do not test their products with older games. So alot of times, a new improvement or enhancement for example can break a game. This has happened when i played AC Valhalla. When i upgraded my driver version, it broke the game. When i downgraded it back to the previous version it worked, but now it crashed every 4-5 hours unlike before i updated it. So yea, it can happen. NVIDIA and AMD do not long term test their drivers with all games, so it ends up sometimes you get broken games.

I actually proved this in the AC VAlhalla forum by finding a file called NVLDDMKM files in my windows event viewer why the game crashed. It is definetly something that can happen, and will happen.

NOTE: I found a screenshot i took of it long ago. Take a look for yourself about it:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3021234045

That file is a nvidia driver file that was causing the crashes in my game. The evidence is in the screenshot and is definetly a nvidia update problem when you update drivers. I also posted this evidence on the nvidia forum and about my game crashing, but i never received a response from their support forum.

[Bradly105]

Try clearing your download cache in Steam settings.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Raven Silva:

Odd that a new NVIDIA update would affect Civilization V out of nowhere.

Have you tried verifying the integrity of the game's files?

To do so, right-click the game in your Steam library, then go to Properties, then "Installed Files," and click "Verify integrity of software files." It might take a while depending on the game's size. Or else you could reinstall the game and see if that fixes your issue. If not, then your only solution would be to install an older NVIDIA driver; if you know which one you were using, just google it and you'll quickly find its installation file.

I had dragon ball fighter z not work due to using a newer version of nvidia drivers. Researched and saw this occurred before not only in dbfz but other games with eac, rolled back the gfx drivers and that fixed the issue. I've updated since of course skipping that version and have had no problem.