Arch Linux Civilization 5 not working

After two weeks of totally forgetting to reboot or check for updates, Civilization 5 was not working.

I finally made some time on Saturday morning to fix it, instead of  going cycling. It took a couple hours more than I hoped, but hey, I can destroy empires again!

After reading and trying different solutions found on the internet, some went as far back as 2014, the only thing that worked was a ‘go find the problem yourself’ post.

So, I checked dmesg and there seemed to be a problem with a lib called lib32-libpulse.

Downgraded it to 10.0-1, and bam! Up and running, instantly!

Error messages that I found and helped solve the problem:

“Civ5XP[18755] general protection ip:ede6d4e1 sp:f3e60134 error:0 in libpulsecommon-12.0.so[ede1f000+8c000]”