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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) (Wine) October 1, 2015[1]
Linux (Wine) February 16, 2016[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Sci-fi
Series Earth
Earth 2160 on HowLongToBeat
Earth 2160 on MobyGames
Earth 2160 on Wikipedia
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

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 2160 is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Earth series.

General information

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
CD key
Reality Pump DRM activation (for multiplayer). Serial keys for multiplayer available by request to GOG support team.[5]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
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Requires online activation
Reality Pump DRM activation.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
LAN multiplayer access does not require a serial key. EarthNet not accessible.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patches 1.37 and 1.38 are available from Patches-Scrolls.

Skip intro videos

Change registry settings[6]
  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[6]
  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[6]
  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

Video settings.
Video settings.
You may need to adjust registry settings for the UI to be non-stretched or illegible.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
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.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
1x-16x[7]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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

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; download.
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[6]

Issues fixed

Cannot select non-4:3 resolutions in options menu

Change registry settings[6]
  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[6]
  1. Take the desired resolution, then divide it by the number of monitors wide that the multi-monitor configuration is. For example, if a multi-monitor configuration is 2 monitors wide by 1 monitor tall, and a multi-monitor resolution of 3840x2160 is to be used, 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 from Step 1.

Ultra-widescreen/4K Ultra HD

Change registry settings[6]
  1. Take the desired resolution, then divide its width by 2. For example, 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 from Step 1.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 1.3, 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
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

  1. Steam Community Announcement - Mac OSX Version available! - last accessed on May 2023
  2. 2.0 2.1 Available for Linux & Steam OS now! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Earth 2160
  3. Earth 2160 - FAQ's - Activations - last accessed on May 2023
  4. PC Activation Issues? READ FIRST - TopWare Forum - last accessed on May 2023
  5. Earth 2160 - product activation for online play - last accessed on 2021-06-13
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-07-12
  7. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2017-03-07
    Game seems to enumerate whatever MSAA options are available to the GPU; on my old GTX 970, it was 2x-8x, while on my current, iGPU Intel laptop, it's 1x-16x.