Startopia

What works

installer

patching

playing

What does not

All your creatures are not rendered, they are there and with some practice you can select them if you can find them.
Finding them is the hard part since they are invisible.
The roof of the station turns white very often, sometimes it shows the right texture.
The cinamatics at the beginning of the game run but they are very jittery.

Since the game is very hard to play when you cannot see your creatures I gave it a bronze rating.

Workarounds

What was not tested

uninstalling.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

At the moment of this writing the wine version is 1.5.11

I have played startopia for an hour or so, and everything works fine.

Installation manual:

google for the following two updates on the web and download them.

startopia_patch_1_01.exe

startopia_patch_1_02.zip

mount the startopia cd

Configure your wineprefix to use win32 winecfg

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/prefix/dir/ winecfg

Verify that wine is set to windowsXP with winecfg and close it.

run the AutoRun.exe found on the cd with wine

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/prefix/dir/ wine /path/to/AutoRun.exe

follow the usual installation steps. Do not install gamespy.

cd to your startopia dir

cd '/prefix/dir/drive_c/Program Files/Eidos Interactive/Mucky Foot/StarTopia/'

Run the 1.01 patch 

wineWINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/prefix/dir/ wine /path/to/ startopia_patch_1_01.exe

unzip the 1_02 update in the startopia dir overwriting all files as needed

cd '/prefix/dir/drive_c/Program Files/Eidos Interactive/Mucky Foot/StarTopia/'

gunzip /path/to/startopia_patch_1_02.zip

Now start startopia

Take some time to adjust the video settings, you should be able to play it in very high resolutions, also due to the 1.02 patch you can enable all kinds of opengl goodies that you were never able to use on when you first bought startopia.

Cheers

Rob

If you want some more attention from the wine team for this app, vote for it.

Find the vote link above and click on it. :)

When you have performance issues.

Set your audio to lower quality en less sound events.

It seems that wine is not very good with dealing with a lot of sound events and pulse.

 Cheers

Rob