So Civilization V [Flash Warning] – the latest buggy installment of Sid Meier’s lovechild of a game series – was ported to the Mac and is available on Steam as a multi-system download; awesome, right? Well unfortunatley Aspyr did too good of a job porting the game and it came with some of the same annoyances as the Windows version. Namely that you have to sit through the obnoxious intro each time you launch the game. Thankfully this issue has already been solved for us by the Windows community and all that really changes is the directory path for the ini file we need to edit. So here goes, how to skip the annoying Civilization V intro screen in OS X:
- Open ~/Documents/Aspyr/UserSettings.ini
- Search for “SkipIntroVideo” (without quotes)
- Set the value to “1″ (again without quotes)
I also have to say i’m disappointed, but not surprised, that Aspyr appears to be completely unaware of the Library folder and like so many other cheap OS X ports throws all their files in the Documents folder like this is a Windows box. Keep it classy Aspyr.
BTW thanks for the info on killing the intro.
So Aspyr are the idiots who ported this game over?!?
The intro get’s real old real quick and in my opinion that’s minor in comparison to NO MOD capabilities, network (Local / Internet) only multiplayer (which is a joke by comparison as Hotseat acts like a party style single player mode). Personally after seeing what Feral Interactive did for Borderlands GOTY Ed., The Movies and Sid Meier’s own Pirates how could 2K give it to Aspyr and not Feral!
They implemented an undocumented fix to the Documents folder pollution… see here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/index.php/t-405831.html
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up on how to get all the saves out of the Documents folder. :)
Thanks. Great info..
I’m trying to do this but it isn’t saving inside the game. I alter the file and save but it just makes a new file inside the civ 5 folder.