Civilization – Clicking “next” in the mods selection dialog is extremely slow

civilization-5

When I go to the "MODS" option in the main game menu, it shows me a list of all installed mods and offers me the chance to enable/disable them, to get more mods, and to continue to the next screen where I can start or load a game:

MODS

However, when I click "NEXT" to go to the next screen it takes a relatively long time – feels like a minute or two – to proceed to the next screen:

NEXT

It's quite annoying. Is there a way to solve this slowdown?

Best Answer

No, this "slowdown" is as noted by @SaintWacko caused by your game loading in your active mods.

In the list on the screenshot I'm expecting "ingame editor" and "R.E.D. modpack" to be the biggest mods and thus causing the most slowdown.

The only way to reduce the slowdown is to use less/smaller mods.