Latest game version on Steam, with or without expansions or DLC.
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: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.9 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Single playing. Load & save...
What does not
The game often crashes on launch : you need to try again and again before succeding to play (sometimes more than 10 times).
Three video settings are always reset to "low level" (nvidia GTX460) whatever level you choose : ShadowLevel, TerrainTessLevel, TerrainShadowQuality
 Intro movie does not run (black screen)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multi-player
Modding
DX11
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
No winetricks !!! Just install & play.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| 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 | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 12 2019 | 4.0-rc6 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Nowres rafed |
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
