I have installed Civilization 5 from Steam and it was working fine, but when I tried to run it this morning it got stuck at the first step with the message Preparing to launch Sid Meier's Civilization V. What should I do?
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Best Answer
Try opening Task Manager and see if Civ's service (Launcher.exe) is already running in the background.
When I get this error with games, usually the above is the cause of the problem, and killing the process and starting the game again from Steam solves it.