Application Details:
Version: | 1.x |
License: | |
URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... |
Votes: | 4 |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.5.11 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
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:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 | Aug 30 2012 | 1.5.11 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Rob Verduijn | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 7.x "Wheezy" x86_64 | Mar 28 2013 | 1.4.1 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 08 2011 | 1.2.3 | N/A | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user | ||
Show | openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 | Mar 29 2010 | 1.1.41 | Yes | No | Garbage | Rob Verduijn | ||
Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 29 2010 | 1.1.41 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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
RobIf 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