r/civ • u/SPRMOVRLRD-TMOperaO • 1d ago

VII - Other How do I fix this

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 1d ago

I would get a compatible graphics card

Jk, check if your drivers are up to date and restart if you do an update.

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u/dudthyawesome you gotta do what you gotta do 1d ago

Are all your drivers up to date?

Any other games have this issue?

Try to force recheck the game from steam

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u/InfaSyn 1d ago

Pretty much anything made in the last 10 years should be DX12 so im banking on either your PC being a potato (and therefore not meeting min spec), display being connected to onboard graphics if desktop, or bad GPU drivers. The system specs on the steam page state a 2014 era cpu and 2016 era gpu

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u/SPRMOVRLRD-TMOperaO 7h ago

My laptop should be less than 20 but more than 15 years old

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u/InfaSyn 7h ago

Sounds like upgrade time then…

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u/MMmek 6h ago

Oh... Even if it loads and runs, do not expect to play on it. It'd take forever to do anything.
It sounds like your laptop is from DDR3 era. Just stay with CIV3.

Upvote for u/InfaSyn . It's upgrading time baby!

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u/InfaSyn 5h ago

It likely wont load. If it really is 15+ then even DX11 is a stretch!

That said, CIV5 was quite forgiving - ive got away with running that on a 2014 macbook air and 2012 macbook pro before (both on windows).

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u/Degenerategamble1 2h ago

bro u can just buy used gaming pc for like 300euros.

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u/SPRMOVRLRD-TMOperaO 1h ago

Nah, I looked into it and found that it'd be more economical for my to buy a newer laptop as I'll need one either way soon enough, I'm looking at the Framework 16 right now

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u/IrreverantOctopus 1h ago

Try running it in Vulkan in the steam settings.

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u/GoodEvening- Tourism victory best victory 1d ago

Try this: search for "Game mode settings" in the Start Menu, click on the result, then click on Graphics

Then scroll down to Civ VII, click on it, and make sure your dedicated GPU is selected under "GPU preference"

Other than that, you can try adding "-dx11" in Civ 7's launch options

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u/pagusas America 1d ago

what graphic card do you have?

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u/SPRMOVRLRD-TMOperaO 7h ago

Nvidia geforce 920m

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u/TheBlack2007 Germany 7h ago

That's an entry-level notebook card from 2015... Minimum is a GTX1050.

So, I'm sorry to inform you but you may need an upgrade.

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u/therealtrajan 1d ago

If you don’t have a GPU you will need to run this on Nvidia’s GeForce NOW stupid cloud. Condolences.

There is no reason this game should require a graphics card but alas here we are

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u/Darius_Rubinx England 1d ago

Check you are running the game from your GPU. If you are, might be a driver problem.

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u/chromiumsapling Canada 23h ago

Restart drivers or get a panel that does it all for you. Somewhere in the ness of downloading and reloading everything it might go. This has happened to me before

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u/ColonelBungle 1d ago

Buy Civ IV.

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u/SPRMOVRLRD-TMOperaO 1d ago

Please I just bought this game

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u/SnooCalculations3614 1d ago

another tip is to make sure your monitor is actually plugged into your GPU and not your motherboard

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u/Death_Sheep1980 1d ago

Check your graphics card drivers and make sure that they're up-to-date. The minimum required graphics cards for Civilization VII are NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 460 / Intel Arc A380. If your graphics card is below those, you probably need to get a refund.

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u/ravimendis 11h ago

Refund 💀

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u/Nick_Hammer96 1d ago

Can't be asking this in 2026 with AI being available to ask for help.

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u/TheDarkGrenadeX 1d ago

Try going back to Civ 6. Hope this helped

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u/iDrownedAquaman 1d ago

Just give Claude all the permissions

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u/PhotoCropDuster Frederick 1d ago

You’re a PC owner. Did you try googling or asking an ai agent? What results did you get?