My god I have to click to many times to start the game!

[Heraclitus]

If you hate things being slow, I have to wonder why you're playing a turn-based strategy game. Seriously. WTF?

P.S. The reason why the intro video takes a while before you can skip it, it's because the game is loading in the background while it distracts you with pretty pictures of an old man. Editing the .ini file just means you can stare at a black screen instead.

But hiding the loading screen behind a intro movie means that the user has no idea when the loading is done without experimentation.

[acheron]

Hit ESC as soon as the movie starts. The movie will end and take you to the menu once the game finishes loading. If you'd rather look at the black screen, go for it, but this is a silly complaint.

However I totally agree about the DirectX 11 thing. It gives you the option to make a shortcut that supposedly takes you directly to the DirectX 11 version, but the "choose 9 or 10/11" window comes up anyway. If this can't be automatically detected (why not?) then I should have only needed to make the choice once.

[Dr Strangelove]

Hit ESC as soon as the movie starts. The movie will end and take you to the menu once the game finishes loading. If you'd rather look at the black screen, go for it, but this is a silly complaint.

Since the last patch download I've been noticing that if I hit ESC during the intro the intro movie terminates sooner, but I get a black screen that just hangs indefinitely. I have to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the Task Manager then cancel the task manager to coax the game to move on.

However I totally agree about the DirectX 11 thing. It gives you the option to make a shortcut that supposedly takes you directly to the DirectX 11 version, but the "choose 9 or 10/11" window comes up anyway. If this can't be automatically detected (why not?) then I should have only needed to make the choice once.

Yes, very silly.

[Louis XXIV]

I think your Ctl-alt-dlt problem isn't the game, but something with you processing it. I've noticed that hitting esc still gives me about 3-4 seconds of the video and then the game loads. It used to go until "Welcome Back, I've missed you." Now it seems to cut a second before that point. But I haven't had any crashes because of it (although I have had crashes after a save loads. That's not fun).

[robm15]

1) I double click the icon on my desktop
2) then I select either play the game, or play the game (DX9) - I choose the first
3) then I select either DX11 version or the DX9 version - I choose the first, i also used this option screen to create a DX11 short cut, but that doesnt help as it still asks this question twice (its the shortcut I used in step 1)
4) then I have to click bypass all the videos
5) then I have to click to accept some agreement - why do I have to click this every stinking time?
6) finally get to the main menu after my clicking finger is exhausted

Firaxis, can please eliminate steps 2 through 5, so I only double click on the desktop icon and I'm taking emmidately to the main menu, no DX choices, no accepting agreements, no videos etc...

The way it is now, i get annoyed with the game before its even launched!

+1 Agree!

[Proteus_MST]

Hit ESC as soon as the movie starts. The movie will end and take you to the menu once the game finishes loading. If you'd rather look at the black screen, go for it, but this is a silly complaint.

However I totally agree about the DirectX 11 thing. It gives you the option to make a shortcut that supposedly takes you directly to the DirectX 11 version, but the "choose 9 or 10/11" window comes up anyway. If this can't be automatically detected (why not?) then I should have only needed to make the choice once.

Yep, it seems like the selector between DX9/11 that was programmed by Firaxis
is wrapped up in a DX9/11-Version selector made by Steam,
without the Steam selector being able to communicate the choice to the Firaxis-Selector