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Alien: Isolation’s Linux and Mac system requirements appear from the shadows

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It was only a few days ago when the news broke that Feral Interactive were bringing one of the best scary games of recent times to Linux and Mac.

I couldn’t stop myself writing lots of words to try and convince anyone who hasn’t played it to give it a go. Now I’m going to write less words to tell you if your system is even capable of running it. No worries.

There is one caveat, however: these spec recommendations are provisional and could change before release. They will likely be either the same or very similar, though. With that in mind, off we go:

MAC REQUIREMENTS

Minimum requirements

OS: Mac OS X 10.10.4

Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel

RAM: 4GB

Hard Disk: 35GB

Graphics: 1GB

Input: Keyboard

Recommended requirements

OS: Mac OS X 10.10.5 or higher

Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel

RAM: 8GB

Hard Disk: 35GB

Graphics: 2GB

Input: Gamepad

The following graphics cards are not supported: AMD Radeon HD 4xxx series, ATI X1xxx series, ATI HD2xxx series, Intel Iris 5100, Intel HD5000, Intel Iris 6100, Intel HD6000, Intel HD5300, Intel GMA series, Intel HD3000, Intel HD4000, NVIDIA 1xx series, NVIDIA 9xxx series, NVIDIA 8xxx series, NVIDIA 7xxx series and NVIDIA 3xx series.

LINUX REQUIREMENTS

Minimum requirements

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64bit) or SteamOSProcessor2.6 GHz

RAM: 4GB

Hard Disk: 35GB

Graphics: 1GB

Input: Keyboard & Mouse

Recommended requirements

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64bit) or SteamOS or higher

Processor: 2.6 GHz

RAM: 8GB

Hard Disk: 35GB

Graphics: 2GB

Input: Gamepad

*Requires an NVIDIA 600 series or better running driver version 355.11 or better.

**Requires an NVIDIA 700 series or better running driver version 355.11 or better.

Intel and AMD GPUs are not supported. A Steam account is required.