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Earth 2160

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

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
Can only be used x times
3 computer limit[3][4]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Reality Pump DRM activation (for multiplayer).
Windows
Steam
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Requires online activation
Reality Pump DRM activation.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Change registry settings[5]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface
  2. Change the value of ShowIntro from 1 to 0

Skip credits

The game normally shows credits after the player chooses to exit the game.
Change registry settings[5]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface
  2. Change the value of ShowCredits from 1 to 0

Enable anti-aliasing in Windowed mode

Change registry settings[5]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Graphics
  2. Change the value of EnableMultisampleInWindowedMode from 0 to 1

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth 2160\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Earth 2160\Players
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
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
Czech
Not available in the GOG.com version.
French
Not available in the GOG.com version.
German
Not available in the GOG.com version.
Italian
Not available in the GOG.com version.
Polish
Not available in the GOG.com version.
Russian
Spanish
Not available in the GOG.com version.

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

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.
Use a 4:3 resolution[5]

Issues fixed

Cannot select non-4:3 resolutions in options menu

Change registry settings[5]
  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Graphics
  2. Change the value of Only4x3Modes from 1 to 0

UI is stretched/illegible

Multi-monitor configuration

Change registry settings[5]
  1. Take the resolution you plan on using, then divide it by the number of monitors wide your multi-monitor configuration is. For example, if you have a multi-monitor configuration which is 2 monitors wide by 1 monitor tall, and you intend to use a multi-monitor resolution of 3840x2160, divide 3840 by 2 to get 1920.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface
  3. Change the value of MaxInterfaceWidth to the number you got in Step 1.

Ultra-widescreen/4K Ultra HD

Change registry settings[5]
  1. Take the resolution you plan on using, then divide its width by 2. For example, if you intend to use a resolution of 2560x1080, divide 2560 by 2 to get 1280.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface
  3. Change the value of MaxInterfaceWidth to the number you got in Step 1.

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
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 1.3 support
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or SteamOS
Processor (CPU) Intel/AMD Single Core CPU with 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
The Linux version uses Wine.[2]

References