Earth 2160

Earth 2160

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
Linux (Wine)	February 16, 2016
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
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

Key points

Natively supports 4K and ultrawidescreen resolutions.

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.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		3 computer limit
GOG.com		Reality Pump DRM activation (for multiplayer). Serial keys for multiplayer available by request to GOG support team.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam		Reality Pump DRM activation.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Change registry settings
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface 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
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface Change the value of ShowCredits from 1 to 0

Enable anti-aliasing in Windowed mode

Change registry settings
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Graphics 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.

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

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen 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
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.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

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
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

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

In-game cutscenes do not display correctly using non-4:3 resolutions

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

Issues fixed

Cannot select non-4:3 resolutions in options menu

Change registry settings
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Graphics Change the value of Only4x3Modes from 1 to 0

UI is stretched/illegible

Multi-monitor configuration

Change registry settings

Take the resolution you plan on using, then divide it by the number of monitors wide your multi-monitor configuration is. For example, if you have a multi-monitor configuration which is 2 monitors wide by 1 monitor tall, and you intend to use a multi-monitor resolution of 3840x2160, divide 3840 by 2 to get 1920. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface Change the value of MaxInterfaceWidth to the number you got in Step 1.

Ultra-widescreen/4K Ultra HD

Change registry settings
Take the resolution you plan on using, then divide its width by 2. For example, if you intend to use a resolution of 2560x1080, divide 2560 by 2 to get 1280. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\Earth2160\Interface Change the value of MaxInterfaceWidth to the number you got in Step 1.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	1.3, 2.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 1.3 support	ATI Radeon/X-series Nvidia GeForce 6600 Nvidia GeForce 6800 Shader model 2 support

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or SteamOS
Processor (CPU)	Intel/AMD Single Core CPU with 2.0 GHz	Intel/AMD Core Duo CPU with 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB	2.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	256 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support

The Linux version uses Wine.