{"id":5576,"date":"2019-06-29T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2019-06-29T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:34:16","slug":"linux-steam-a-fix-for-civilization-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5576","title":{"rendered":"Linux Steam: A Fix for Civilization V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(And apologies for the misspelling; that words is spelt “civilisation” around these parts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’m a Linux user and whilst I don’t often play games, an occasional break spending time slaughtering pedestrians (in GTA V) or conquering the world (in ‘Civilization’) can be fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that I have not been able to play Civilization V since I bought it through Steam – usually instant crashes although sometimes it worked well enough for a few turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I sat down and tried out various suggestions on fixing it until I found one that worked for me :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Right-click the game name in Steam.<\/li>
  2. Select “Properties”<\/li>
  3. Select “Startup options”<\/li>
  4. Specify one of the following :-
    1. (Failed for me) LD_PRELOAD=’.\/libcxxrt.so:\/usr\/$LIB\/libstdc++.so.6′ %command%<\/li>
    2. (Failed for me) LD_PRELOAD=\/usr\/lib32\/libopenal.so.1 %command%<\/li>
    3. taskset –cpu-list 0-3 %command%<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      As implied, the “taskset” startup option appears to have worked for me. According to the site I nicked it from, Civilization has trouble running on systems with more than 8 core threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Tower Stonework<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (And apologies for the misspelling; that words is spelt “civilisation” around these parts) So I’m a Linux user and whilst I don’t often play games, an occasional break spending time slaughtering pedestrians (in GTA V) or conquering the world (in ‘Civilization’) can be fun. Except that I have not been able to play Civilization V […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,209],"tags":[1870,43,1795],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux-it","tag-civilization","tag-linux","tag-steam","category-4-id","category-209-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1rW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}