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Revision as of 09:28, 30 July 2022

StarTopia
StarTopia cover
Developers
Mucky Foot Productions
Publishers
Retail Eidos Interactive
Original digital Square Enix
Current digital My Little Planet Ltd
Release dates
Windows June 15, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 86
Startopia on HowLongToBeat
Startopia on IGDB
Startopia on MobyGames
Startopia on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]. Removed in the official 1.01b patch, but still has a disc check.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

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

Patches

The 1.01 Patch updates the retail version of the game to the latest version.
The 1.01b Patch is merely an alternative to the 1.01 patch, in case you experience problems with it.
There is also the semi-official 1.02 Patch which requires either 1.01 or 1.01b to be installed already (it was created by a former Mucky Foot employee).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/startopia.ini[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243040/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/Profiles[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243040/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

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

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controlled via sliders.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4
Online play
4 GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
Z3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

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. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References