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Revision as of 14:46, 22 June 2016

Earth 2160
Earth 2160 cover
Developers
Reality Pump Studios
Publishers
Zuxxez Entertainment
Deep Silver
Engines
Earth-4 Engine
Release dates
Windows June 3, 2005
macOS (OS X) October 1, 2015[1]
Linux February 16, 2016[2]
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Earth 2160 on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Earth
Earth 2140 1997
Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet 2000
Earth 2150: The Moon Project 2000
Earth 2150: Lost Souls 2002
Earth 2160 2005

Key points

Natively supports 4K and ultrawidescreen resolutions.
In-game cutscenes are designed for 4:3 resolutions, causing display issues in any other resolution.
All in-game cutscenes force a letterbox format, regardless of resolution.

General information

Official Site
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
Can only be used x times		 3 computer limit[3]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Requires online activation
 DRM: Reality Pump activation.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Enable anti-aliasing in Windowed mode

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
You may need to adjust registry settings for the UI to be non-stretched or illegible.

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Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Requires an EarthNet account

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

In-game cutscenes do not display correctly using non-4:3 resolutions

Example of in-game cutscene display issues.
Example of in-game cutscene display issues.
When a non-4:3 resolution is used, in-game cutscenes will assume the resolution is still 4:3, causing various display issues.
Instructions

Issues fixed

Cannot select non-4:3 resolutions in options menu

Instructions

UI is stretched/illegible

Multi-monitor configuration

Instructions

Ultra-widescreen/4K Ultra HD

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 1.3, 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 1.3 support		 ATI Radeon/X-series
Nvidia GeForce 6600
Nvidia GeForce 6800
Shader model 2 support
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or SteamOS
Processor (CPU) Intel/AMD Single Core CPU with 2.0 GHz Intel/AMD Core Duo CPU with 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB 256 MB
Shader model 2.0 support
The Linux version uses Wine.[2]

References