

In some rare cases, a game may simply fail to launch if the drivers are old or corrupted. Drivers are like a mini-OS of a hardware component and if they’re outdated, they may result in gaming issues like crashing. If the game is running its latest version at this time, the next important software component that you must check is the graphics drivers. Solution #4: Keep the graphics drivers updated.

However, you can manually check if Civ 6 hasn’t been updated anytime by opening Steam and checking your game library if there’s an update that you are yet to install. The Steam client is designed to automatically check for game updates.

If Civilization 6 still won’t load on Steam after force closing it in Task Manager, simply reboot the PC and see what happens. This can happen if you clicked the Play button in Steam multiple times, or if there’s already another user that launched the game without logging out their account. It’s possible that there’s already an instance of the game that’s running in the Operating System so all you have to do is to close and launch it again. Make sure that you refresh the game by closing it using the Task Manager. Sometimes, all it takes to keep a game running again on Steam is a simple restart.
