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Earth & Beyond

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Earth & Beyond
Earth & Beyond cover
Developers
Westwood Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Westwood 3D
Release dates
Windows September 24, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 82
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Subscription
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Persistent, Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres MMORPG
Vehicles Space flight
Themes Sci-fi, Space
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Earth & Beyond is a multiplayer third-person MMORPG game.

The game's official servers were shut down on September 22, 2004. Since then, the only way to play it have been community-run servers such as Net-7's Earth & Beyond Emulator.

General information

Earth & Beyond Emulator forums
Earth & Beyond Emulator Wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Westwood Studios\Earth and Beyond[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Requires Earth & Beyond Emulator.
Ultra-widescreen
Requires Earth & Beyond Emulator.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Via external configuration utility.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Cannot dictate number of samples used.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game keybindings.
In-game keybindings.

Audio

External sound settings.
External sound settings.
In-game sound settings.
In-game sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound, Dialog
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

References