Download the.civ5mod file by copying the mod's Steam Workshop URL into steamworkshop.downloader Place the downloaded.civ5mod file into your DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier's Civilization 5MODS folder. The Elder Scrolls Civilization V Pack (BNW) Jul 20 2013 Released 2013 Turn Based Strategy Mod adds 13 Elder Scrolls factions as civilizations into Civilization V. Includes a Tamriel map with True Start Locations, 24 TES city-states, 13 TES.
This page includes information on the Civ5 Modding Tools as well as links to other useful programs.
- 5Testing and debugging
World Builder
- The stand-alone world builder allows users to create and modify maps and scenarios for Civilization V.
Mod Buddy
- An editor (IDE) for the XML and Lua elements of the game and allows for the creation, packaging, and uploading of mods. To use it, you have to install the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Redistributable Package. ModBuddy will prompt you to install this if you don't have it already
- Installing ModBuddy Extensions
Nexus
- A collection of tools to to work with the art in Civilization V.
- Initial Look at Nexus, 3D Unit Art, and Reskinning
- Note that Photoshop templates for icons are also bundled in the SDK, under the Art folder (in Programs Files/Steam/...).
FireTuner
- An advanced debugging terminal. It displays the lua output, provides an interactive console and can be simply extended with custom controls and tables.
- Do not forget to modify your *.ini files, see Debugging#Configuration.
- Simple Tuner Modifications
Since the documentation is sparse, you need a tool to quickly inspect the civ5 source and data files and search in all of them at once. See also this comparison of search tools.
Notepad++
- A great and renowned text editor with a 'search in all files' feature (hit ctrl + shift + f). Used by many developers around the world. Download.
Visual C++ 2010 Express
- This is Microsoft's free C/C++ IDE, which is needed in order to compile the DLL. It includes code editing, autocompletion, compilation, and debugging and can be downloaded here. NOTE: any more modern version of Visual Studio should work so long as you have VC++ 2010 installed as well.
Dragon unpacker
- Can extract the Firaxis packages (.fpk files). Download.
DDS Unpacker
- Some DDS files have been compressed even further and look messed up if you open them in an image viewer. This tool rebuilds them. Download.
XnView
- An images browser to get a quick look at all the DDS files to spot the one you're looking for. Download.
FireTuner: Textures Viewer
- A FireTuner panel to browse most of the game's textures. Download.
FireTuner: Icons Viewer
- A FireTuner panel to browse the game's icons. Download.
NVidia Texture Tools for Photoshop
- A Photoshop plugin to save textures under the DDS format. Download
Paint.net
- An easy-to-use and moderately powerful open-source image editor for Windows that natively supports the DDS format. Download
GIMP
- A free & open source image editing and manipulation tool. Very useful for creating 2d assets (icons). A windows installer version can be downloaded here.
Nexus Buddy 2
- Created by a member of the CFC community, this tool makes it much easier to work with 3d assets, especially for things other than units. You can download the latest version from the forums here, and it is actively updated by its author.
SQLite tools
Anytime it starts a game, Civilization V saves a SQLite snapshot of the database, including the changes made by mods, under Civ5DebugDatabase.db.
SQLite Manager
- NOTE: This is at the moment not compatible with the latest version of Firefox. The latest version it is compatible with is 19.0.
A Firefox plug-in, slightly more powerful than the previous tool. Download
SQLiteSpy
- A Windows software to inspect the SQLite files. Download
SQLite Browser
- A Windows software to inspect the SQLite files. Download
Cheating tools and game inspectors
In-game Editor (IGE)
- Add or remove units, cities, resources, change the terrain, trigger wars, etc. Convenient to quickly test your mod. Download (also on the Steam Workshop).
FireTuner: Techs and policies panel
- A FireTuner panel to list, grant and revoke techs and policies. Download.
Update: If you are looking for a guide to fix the errors in the new Sid Meier’s Civilization VI game, you can find it here.
Sid Meier’s Civilization V is a Flagship Turn-Based Strategy that was released some time ago. Recently, during some updates of the game, a lot of players are encountering errors and bugs, and they are unable to play the game. The most encountered Civilization V errors are Crashes, Game Not Starting and Performance Issues like Low FPS and Stuttering. Follow our guide below to fix all of these errors.
Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age: Wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, go head-to-head with some of history’s greatest leaders and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
First, make sure that you meet the minimum system requirements of the game and after that, you can skip to our tutorial and fix your issue. If you don’t meet the requirements, please upgrade your PC and see if you are encountering any other errors after that because probably this is your main issue and this is why you are encountering the error.
MINIMUM:
- OS: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2GB RAM
- Graphics:256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better-integrated graphics
- DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
- Note: Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device
RECOMMENDED:
- OS: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
- Processor: 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better
- DirectX®: DirectX® version 11
- Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
- Note: Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device
Civilization V Errors:
#1 Civilization V Windows 10 Issues
Some users are experiencing problems with the game (and indeed lots of other games) after upgrading to Windows 10. The following steps have resolved it for most users:
Make sure you have the most up to date drivers available from the GPU maker. This means Intel, AMD or nVidia, not your system OEM. OEMs are rarely up to date with the drivers they provide.
Check that Windows hasn’t mysteriously made parts of your user folder (“My Documents” etc., ) read-only, for mysterious and unexplained reasons.
Either uninstall and reinstall the ga or verify game files.
Make sure the executable is not set to any compatibility mode or run as administrator. If that doesn’t work, try enabling those options instead (but they shouldn’t be necessary.
Some people have reported needing to run one or more of the redists that come with the game affected (such as a VC redist and DirectX); you may have to select a ‘repair’ option when you run them.
#2 Civilization V Crashes
Some players are encountering crashes at the startup of the game or random crashes while they are playing. Also, some of them reported crashes on opening movies, but you can quickly fix them with the workaround below.
To fix the game crashes, you need to follow our tutorial at the end of the post, and after you apply it to your game, it will run fine with no crashes.
“I keep crashing on the games I start… I’ve been saving as I go and it’s always the same (for instance this playthrough it’s on turn 92). No matter how many times I reload, it always crashes at that point. New PC, supposed to handle this game easily. My graphics card is not overheating. Any advice?”
*Game crashing on opening movies:
If the game crashes when the movies are playing, you may need to delete the movie files. These are found in
C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonSid Meier’s Civilization V
and end in WMV (Civ5_Opening_Movie_en_US.wmv, for example). If you have Gods and Kings, you will also need to delete the WMV file (Civ5XP_Opening_Movie_en_US.wmv) from
C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonSid Meier’s Civilization VAssetsDLCExpansion
#3 Civilization V Not Starting
“I start the game. I get to which DirectX version I can choose. I choose 10/11. My steam stopped saying that I played Civ 5. Nothing happens.”
“I’m haveing the core i7 vPro T520. I could play the game perfectly for a long while. Now suddenly after I didn’t play for like two months It doesn’t start anymore. Must have been a steam update. Several people couldn’t play the game anymore. But that was like two months ago. And I still cant play it.”
For some players the game doesn’t even start they click Play in Steam Library, and nothing happens, or they choose the DirectX version, they want to run the game with, and after that also, nothing happens. Steam stops, and it says that Civilization V is running, but no game starts.
Solution: To fix this issue and start the game you need to follow our tutorial at the end of the post.
#4 Civilization V Servers Too Busy
This is usually caused by antivirus software stopping the Steam client from downloading the game. Temporarily disable your antivirus and try downloading the game again. Be sure to turn it back on once the game is installed.
Another possible cause is trouble connecting to Steam’s download server. In Steam settings, change your download region and try the download again.
#5 Civilization V Linux Issues
*Unable to use DLC
If you installed Civilization V the day it was launched on SteamOS, you might not be able to use any DLCs for the game. This was fixed quickly, but you will need to validate your game files (verify game cache) one time to access your DLCs.
*No text using ATI/AMD graphics
If the game does not show text while using ATI graphics, try using the latest beta drivers[support.amd.com] from AMD’s site. These instructions may help.
#5 Civilization V Low FPS and other performance issues
Don’t see a thread addressing this so thought I’d jump in with my patch problem. Since the patch was applied a day or so ago, my game’s performance has completely tanked. Was fine before the patch. Have latest drivers and the computer is well above the game’s “requirements.”
At first, it looked a lot like the known core threading problem. Huge delays after clicking a button, etc., so tried that fix without success. Also, dumbed down completely the video options and tried in DirectX9. Still no help.
Symptoms:
1. Game response incredibly slow once a game is loaded or started.
2. Long time lags for almost everything.
3. Choosing next turn takes forever as the computer chugs through the AI players incredibly slowly.
Anyone else experiencing performance issues (rather than the crashes which have already been discussed in other threads, but not resolved as far as I can tell)?
If you are encountering performance issues like Low FPS, FPS Drops, Stuttering and Freezes it may be due to the latest update of the game. To fix the performance issues and optimize your FPS you need to follow the tutorial below.
Civ V Mod Folder
Our team of developers managed to release a patch that helps you fix the errors described above. You can see how our patch looks like below, where you can also find a tutorial on how to use it and a download link. Please follow the tutorial step by step before asking any questions regarding your issues. Our patch won’t interfere with your Steam account, it will just change some files and .dll in the game folder for the errors to be fixed.
Civ V Mod Folder Deze
Follow the tutorial below to apply the patch correctly to your game.
How to apply our patch:
- Download the archive of the patch from here: download
- Extract the downloaded archive on your PC, and open the patch from the folder.
- Your GPU will be selected automatically, make sure that you use your dedicated GPU if you have a laptop!
- Select the game executable from the game folder, if you used the default install folder it should be: “C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamappscommonSid Meier’s Civilization V”
- Select your issue or issues from the box to the right and click the corresponding “Fix” button.
- After your errors are successfully fixed, you can click the “Launch Game” button and play the game.
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How to download: Well, you might think that our download service is pretty annoying but is very effective. To download you just need to complete a simple offer, it usually takes a few minutes, and after that, you will be able to download the patch. We use this service because is the only way to support our developers and to keep releasing and updating patches for games. Thank you! We hope you understand us and have fun playing Sid Meier’s Civilization V!
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We hope that your tutorial helped you fix your Civilization V errors and bugs, if you encounter any other issues in the game or if you don’t know how to apply the patch to your game, comment below or use our contact page and we will help you fix your game. –GamesErrors Team