Civ VI GS not activating in DX11 or 12
I am once again having trouble getting Plitch to activate when playing Civ Vi Gathering Storm. This has been the most troublesome game I have ever had trying to work with plitch.
There are some obviously weird behaviours, such as plitch starting the DX12 version even when I select the DX11 version from the plitch dropdown menu. The DX12 version completely refuses to do anything for me, no matter what I do.
I therefore normally play in DX11 mode, but now even that fails to enable me to "activate" plitch. I have tried selecting "gathering Storm", vanilla Civ VI and even Rise and Fall, but none will activate. Offline mode makes no difference (I usually use this out of preference anyway).
Am fairly sure I had this problem before, but can't remember how I resolved it. For now, none of the modes seem to work, even when I tell Steam to force DX11 mode or to allow me to select DX11 at start. It is definitely DX11 client that is operating at this time. Version is correct ( 1.0.12.68 (1023995))
Any help gratefully appreciated
I am once again having trouble getting Plitch to activate when playing Civ Vi Gathering Storm. This has been the most troublesome game I have ever had trying to work with plitch.
There are some obviously weird behaviours, such as plitch starting the DX12 version even when I select the DX11 version from the plitch dropdown menu. The DX12 version completely refuses to do anything for me, no matter what I do.
I therefore normally play in DX11 mode, but now even that fails to enable me to "activate" plitch. I have tried selecting "gathering Storm", vanilla Civ VI and even Rise and Fall, but none will activate. Offline mode makes no difference (I usually use this out of preference anyway).
Am fairly sure I had this problem before, but can't remember how I resolved it. For now, none of the modes seem to work, even when I tell Steam to force DX11 mode or to allow me to select DX11 at start. It is definitely DX11 client that is operating at this time. Version is correct ( 1.0.12.68 (1023995))
Any help gratefully appreciated
Hey K1lted,
are you playing via Steam, Epic or Msstore?
When using the Play button for Steam for example, it uses the Steam App ID which is 289070 for Civ 6. Since DX12 is the default selection in Steam, it launches the DX12 version instead of the DX11 one. If you want to play the DX11 version, you need to launch the game manually via Steam.
Hey K1lted,
are you playing via Steam, Epic or Msstore?
When using the Play button for Steam for example, it uses the Steam App ID which is 289070 for Civ 6. Since DX12 is the default selection in Steam, it launches the DX12 version instead of the DX11 one. If you want to play the DX11 version, you need to launch the game manually via Steam.
Thanks - but I already said that it is Steam and that I have set steam to launch DX11 version by default (I have also tried the setting that lets me choose at launch, but it makes no difference).
I have had some limited success launching the Plitch clients in administrator mode with DX11, but it completely refuses to do anything in DX12......
Thanks - but I already said that it is Steam and that I have set steam to launch DX11 version by default (I have also tried the setting that lets me choose at launch, but it makes no difference).
I have had some limited success launching the Plitch clients in administrator mode with DX11, but it completely refuses to do anything in DX12......
My bad... I must have missed that.
What exactly do you mean by limited success when launching Plitch as administrator? The trainer requires admin rights to fully function.
Do the cheats work when launching the game manually via Steam instead of using the Play button in the trainer?
My bad... I must have missed that.
What exactly do you mean by limited success when launching Plitch as administrator? The trainer requires admin rights to fully function.
Do the cheats work when launching the game manually via Steam instead of using the Play button in the trainer?
Thanks you for the quick reply again... I was having difficulty getting anything to work, but what you said led me to check and the trainer was not set to run as administrator by default - I have now fixed that and as a result, it is working in both DX11 and 12.
What I meant by "limited" was that some things were working but others were not, but that may be due to the scenario I was trying to play....the current Chine one.
Thanks again
Thanks you for the quick reply again... I was having difficulty getting anything to work, but what you said led me to check and the trainer was not set to run as administrator by default - I have now fixed that and as a result, it is working in both DX11 and 12.
What I meant by "limited" was that some things were working but others were not, but that may be due to the scenario I was trying to play....the current Chine one.
Thanks again
I'm glad it's working for you now :)
Happy Gaming! 🥳
I'm glad it's working for you now :)
Happy Gaming! 🥳