Locate your Sid Meier's Civilization 5 user directory. Possible locations:
- Windows 7, 8, 10:
C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5 - Windows 7, 8, 10: [Git Bash]
cd ~/Documents/My\ Games/Sid\ Meier's\ Civilization\ 5 - Mac OS X:
Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sid Meier's Civilization 5 - Mac OS X:
cd ~/Library/Application Support/Sid Meier's Civilization 5
From there you can find config.ini. Locate line 66 which should state: Language = en_US.
Replace with Language = fi_FI.
Next you need to copy Suomi*.xml files from this repo to the Text directory within the same path as config.ini.
After this the game will boot in Finnish and you can play with other players with no additional DLC or MOD limitations!
If you do not have Git installed then go get your copy! (You can use default settings.)
- Open command line / Git Bash
- Move to the Civ 5 user directory:
cd ~/Documents/My\ Games/Sid\ Meier\'s\ Civilization\ 5/ - Set language to Finnish:
perl -pi -w -e 's/^Language = en_US/Language = fi_FI/;' config.ini - Now we can copy the files. You can do this in two ways: simple copy, or as a fully working Git clone.
To copy only the files from Git:
rm -f Text/* && git clone https://github.com/Merri/civ5suomeksi.git temp && cp -r temp/* ./ && rm -rf temp
To make it a fully functional Git clone:
rm -f Text/* && git clone https://github.com/Merri/civ5suomeksi.git temp && mv temp/.git* ./ && cp -r temp/* ./ && rm -rf temp
Should anything go wrong you chould be able to recover by writing:
rm -rf .git
rm -rf temp
Those remove Git clone and the temp directory if it exists.