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Revision as of 10:12, 10 April 2018

StarTopia
StarTopia cover
Developers
Mucky Foot Productions
Publishers
Square Enix
Release dates
Windows June 15, 2001
Startopia on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

GameSpy online server browser no longer works due to GameSpy services being shut down

General information

Startopia Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
May be launched without Steam running.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Rename .bik files in the installation folder[citation needed]
  1. Go to Intro in the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename eidos.bik and startopia.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/startopia.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243040/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/Profiles[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243040/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4
Online play
4 GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Enable intro videos

Applies if Startopia isn't in the expected install path (as with the Steam distribution)
Edit configuration file[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\startopia.ini
  2. Under the [Intro] section, set IntroPath=<path-to-game>\Intro\. Trailing slash required.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95B
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0a compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References