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There is a native Civilization 5 port in Steam, but the Linux port is not compatible with a few very popular, Windows-only mods.
Application Details:
| Version: | Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://civilization5.com |
| Votes: | 8 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0 |
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What works
The full game, low-res graphics. All of the different setup options, sound, etc.
What does not
High-res graphics, full-screen mode, cinematics.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
AMD x4 core 3.9 ghz 4G RAM ATI HD 4k series, 1G Had to install Steam from steampowered.com because the Steam installer on the disk wouldn't work. Needed winetricks: vcrun2010 and d3dx9. Needed to set orm to backbuffer, or else all the graphics were scrambled and it crashed as soon as it loaded the world. Also needed to set wine to windowed mode or else a large part of the Civ window was offscreen and all the buttons' images were a little below where you had to click, but I think that was an issue with my dual displays and not the game itself. The game slows down noticeably when there are a lot of factions moving a lot of units/managing a lot of cities, but it is still completely playable (and I get those slowdowns on Windows, too).
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 19 2023 | 8.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | luisguerra | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2019 | 4.9 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Aaron Franke | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | May 11 2019 | 4.8-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | cyberphy | |
| Show | Antergos | Jan 27 2019 | 4.0-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Allison Smith | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 16 2019 | 4.0-rc6-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Allison Smith |
Steam
If you are using this game with steam, see the Steam page for details on how to install Steam.
If you are unable to install Steam from the DVD, try installing it from http://store.steampowered.com/about/
Also remember to disable in-game community if you are using Steam.
Installation
For best results, start with a clean wine prefix, then install vcrun2008, d3dx9_36 and vcrun6sp6 using winetricks, then install the game normally.
DirectX 11 is not currently known to work, use DirectX 9 instead.
Use of downloadable content (DLC) may eventually cause the game to crash after a number of turns. If you are experiencing consistent crashes when near the renaissance age when playing with civilizations from the DLC, disabling any DLC other than the expansion packs is advised.
Lot of users are reporting
Unhandled exception which crashes civ5
This might be because of bug
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31113
