Civ V has strange display in DX9 - too slow for DX10 or 11

[tmw]

I installed Civ 5 today and everything went fine. There was a bit of lag in the opening movie which I was expecting because I have never had a graphically strong laptop so the first thing I usually do when installing PC games is turn everything onto low, which is fine by me.

But the game still lagged while running in Direct X 11, so I tried to run it in DX 9 mode, which starts, but strangely the text appears as the following on each and every menu and in game screen.

See attached.

To run the game in DX 9 mode I choose the option from the Steam installer, which gives me the choice, but have also tried directly from the game .exe file, to no avail.

What can I do to get this game to run in DX 9 mode without any text distortion?

All replies would be appreciated.

Kind regards,
tmw.

 

[fimbles]

Im not sure if this applies to your problem but it cant hurt to try

Found this at the 2kgames forums:

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1210691

Hope it helps.

 

[tmw]

Thanks for that the solution worked for me. I know its not technically a solution, just making the best of it really but at least I can play the game now.

Thanks a lot!

 

[fimbles]

Glad it helped. it will probably be fixed in a patch or so.