After numerous attempts I've happened upon how to get Civ V for linux to work under the lastest version of Ubuntu. It appears that the game doesn't like dual monitor setups. For me this manifests as an extremely small display on one of my monitors of the initial splash screen generally with missing parts. After a lot of research I discovered the config file. :~/.local/share/Aspyr/Sid\ Meier\'s\ Civilization\ 5/GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini" There are 3 settings to tweak FSResID, WindowResX, and WindowResY. The trick is to set WindowResX, and WindowResY to your monitor's resolution. This might be enough but most people find they need to tweak FSResID. I can't find a reference to what the settings mean, but in general it appears you can set it from 0-9 or more. The larger numbers seemed to work well for me.
I used:
FSResID = 9
WindowResX = 1600
WindowResY = 900
This resulted in a full screen display 2/3 on one monitor and 1/3 on the other, but it worked well enough to change to windowed mode. (Which honestly is what I wanted.)
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