Planetary Annihilation is a singleplayer and multiplayer free-roaming camera RTS game in the Planetary Annihilation series.
As of August 17, 2018, the rights to the game were taken over by Planetary Annihilation Inc., a company formed by the game's original developers and several long-time community members.[1]
The base game has been delisted from Steam in favor of the Titans standalone expansion pack, but both titles would receive updates regardless as they are mutually compatible in multiplayer in the Classic mode. Owners of the base game were granted a permanent 90% discount for purchasing Titans.[2]
There are several known issues with the Linux version.
General information
- Uber Entertainment Forums
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
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DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
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| Retail |
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| GamersGate |
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| Steam (unavailable) |
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DRM-free when launched directly from executable. |
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| Origin (unavailable) |
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DRM: Uber Entertainment Account Activation |
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Version differences
- Planetary Annihilation: Titans includes all content and features from the original title.[3]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System |
Location |
| Windows |
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\localstore\Local Storage\coui_ui_0.localstorage |
| macOS (OS X) |
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| Linux |
$HOME/.local/Uber Entertainment/ |
- This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
| System |
Location |
| Windows |
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\ |
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Video
Input
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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Master, music, voice and sound effects. |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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Some voice messages lack visual cue (e.g. full resource notification). |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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| Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
- Possible to select from wide variety of community made translations.
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| Finnish |
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Community translation. Not complete. |
| French |
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| German |
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| Italian |
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| Spanish |
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Network
- Multiplayer is compatible with Planetary Annihilation: Titans (limited to the original game's content).[3]
Multiplayer types
Issues fixed
Long load time and low FPS
- Because of how Planetary Annihilation is a bit more memory intensive than most games it is a good idea to actually close any open programs such as Google Chrome before playing.
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Enable threaded optimization[5]
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- Open the Nvidia Control Panel.
- Under Global Settings select the drop-down box next to Threaded optimisation.
- Change this to On and click Apply.
Notes
- This only applies to Nvidia cards.
- If you get poor performance with multiple Nvidia cards, you will need to disable SLI.
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Change priority[5]
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- Open Task Manager and right-click
PA.exe.
- Select Set Priority: and set it to High.
Notes
- Press Ctrl+U to toggle the UI, if there is a noticeable FPS improvement this may benefit you.
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Disable Steam Community overlay[5]
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- Right-click on the game within your Steam library and select Properties.
- Uncheck Enable Steam Community In-Game and click CLOSE.
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Black screen/black planet
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Change settings[6]
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- From the main menu select Settings.
- Under Graphics set anti-aliasing to
OFF.
- Press F5 to refresh the game screen.
Notes
- If this does not work try setting HDR to
OFF aswell. If they are both already disabled, enable and disable them again then refresh by pressing F5. You may need to refresh many times.[7]
- If nothing helps try to wait a bit, then press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, open Task Manager and then go back to the game window.[7]
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Black lines
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Disable anisotropic filtering[8]
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- Open the Nvidia Control Panel.
- Under Global Settings select the drop-down box next to Anisotropic filtering.
- Change this to Application-controlled or Off and click Apply.
Notes
- This only applies to Nvidia cards.
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Game won't start
- This issue is most likely due to outdated drivers.
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Update drivers[9]
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- Download and install the latest driver version for your video card (ATI/AMD, Nvidia, Intel).
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Overly dark planets
- This issue is seen on older Intel and AMD graphics cards.
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Update drivers[10]
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- Download and install the latest driver version for your video card (ATI/AMD, Nvidia, Intel).
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Disable HDR
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- From the main menu select Settings.
- Under Graphics set HDR to
OFF.
Notes
- Only a known issue on older AMD GPUs
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Disable Ambient Occlusion
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- From the main menu select Settings.
- Under Graphics set Ambient Occlusion to
OFF.
Notes
- Only a known issue on older Intel GPUs
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Older AMD / Intel GPUs or Brightness Issues
- This issue may be seen on Intel Arc graphics cards as well.
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All modern GPUs should now support sRGB and sRGB multiple render targets blending.
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Historical sRGB workarounds for AMD / Intel GPU’s were removed in 114880.
Use the following if you need to enable the previous settings:
--gl-disable-srgb
--gl-disable-mrt-srgb
Download and install the latest driver version for your video card (ATI/AMD, Nvidia, Intel).
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Other information
Offline Gameplay
Even though the download of the game itself as well as any updates requires usage of the downloader (Uber Launcher), once obtained the game itself can be copied to other computers and played without any DRM-restrictions. For this to work, all game files have to be copied to the new location, no separate install is necessary. The game must however be started directly (through the PA.exe on windows or the PA.app on Mac) since the Uber Launcher will not start the game without login.
Once the game has started, single player and multi player modes might be deactivated on some machines. To fully activate go to Options -> Settings and set Local Server to "ON".
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| Direct3D |
9.0c |
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| OpenGL |
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| Shader Model support |
3.0 |
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| Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
| Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
| Audio |
FMOD |
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| Interface |
Coherent UI |
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System requirements
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
Vista SP2 | |
| Processor (CPU) |
Dual Core
| Quad Core |
| System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
8 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
Shader model 3.0 support | |
| macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.7 | |
| Processor (CPU) |
Dual Core
| Quad Core |
| System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
8 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
Shader model 3.0 support | |
- 64-bit only.
| Linux |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
Ubuntu 12.04/13.04, Mint 14/15 |
| Processor (CPU) |
64-bit Dual Core or better |
| System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2 GB |
| Video card (GPU) |
Shader model 3.0 support |
- 64-bit only.
References
