Originally developed by
The Creative Assembly
Developed for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
As part of the Mac App Store purchasing process, the game has already been installed on your computer. Read the Getting Started section to start playing the game.
If Alien: Isolation is not already running, double-click on the Alien: Isolation™ application icon. By default this is to be found in the Applications folder on your computer's hard drive.
The Alien: Isolation pre-game Options window will appear. Click on the Play button. The game will launch.
After the loading screens, the Title screen will appear. Press any key to continue.
The Main Menu will appear. Select Play Game.
Select Alien: Isolation.
Select Start Game.
Select a difficulty setting for the game. The recommended setting is Hard, which provides a tense and challenging experience, but if you're new to survival horror games, you may prefer to play on an easier setting.
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The most important factors in determining how smoothly Alien: Isolation plays are your CPU speed, the amount of built-in RAM, the type of graphics card in your computer and the in-game settings you select.
Alien: Isolation is playable with the minimum specifications listed below, but it will play more smoothly on faster computers with more RAM. However, if you are dissatisfied with the performance of the game on your computer, there are a couple of things you can do that are likely to improve performance:
In addition to these general Mac actions, there are numerous specific in-game settings you can select to speed up the game. These are listed below in order of performance improvement (largest improvement first). Move down the list adjusting settings until you find an acceptable balance between performance and graphics.
NOTE: All of these settings are found in either Alien: Isolation's pre-game Options window under the Display tab or within the game under Options → Video, accessible from the Main Menu.
Feral games come with a pre-game Options window. This window offers Mac-specific extra features, described below.
Extras Tab - iTunes Pausing
Selecting this feature will automatically pause any currently playing song in iTunes while Alien: Isolation is running. Playback will be resumed when the game is quit or paused.
Extras Tab - iChat or Messages Away Status
Selecting this feature will automatically set your iChat (called "Messages" in OS X 10.8 or later) status to "away" while Alien: Isolation is running. You can select different "away" messages from the pop-up menu. The "away" options are taken from the user's iChat (or Messages) status listings.
Support Tab - Support - A Helping Hand
If you encounter a problem with Alien: Isolation, you can use the Support tab to consult Feral's online FAQs. If your problem is not covered by the FAQs, you can contact Feral using the automated game report system. This automatically creates a file with information about your computer that is useful to the Feral Technical Support team in helping to solve the problem.
If you wish to uninstall Alien: Isolation, simply drag the Alien: Isolation™ application from your hard drive and drop it in the Trash, then empty the Trash. You may also wish to remove the Alien: Isolation preferences, which are stored in the com.feralinteractive.alienisolation folder in your computer's ~/Library/Containers folder (where the "~" symbol refers to your home directory). Deleting the com.feralinteractive.alienisolation folder will remove the save files, and all game progress will be lost.
Minimum System Requirements
Processor: 2 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
Graphics: 1 GB
Mac OS: Mac OS X 10.10.4
Hard Disk: 35 GB
Input: Keyboard
Recommended System Requirements
Processor: 2.8 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
Graphics: 2 GB
Mac OS: Mac OS X 10.10.5
Hard Disk: 35 GB
Input: Gamepad
The following graphics cards are not supported: AMD Radeon HD 4xxx Series, ATI Radeon HD2xxx Series, ATI X1xxx Series, Intel GMA Series, Intel Iris 6100, Intel HD4000, Intel HD5300, Intel HD5000, Intel HD3000, Intel HD6000, Intel Iris 5100, Nvidia 1xx Series, Nvidia 8xxx Series, Nvidia 3xx Series, Nvidia 9xxx Series and Nvidia 7xxx Series.
This game is not currently supported on volumes formatted as Case-sensitive.
Every effort has been made to make Alien: Isolation as compatible with current hardware as possible. However, if you are experiencing problems when running Alien: Isolation, please read on.
The latest version of the FAQs can be found by selecting the FAQs button in the Support tab of the Alien: Isolation pre-game Options window (this is the window that opens when you launch the game), or by going straight to the Feral website: http://support.feralinteractive.com
Contacting Feral
If the FAQs and/or updates do not solve your problem, then please feel free to contact us. The following information must be obtained before contacting Feral Technical Support:
All the information required can be obtained by opening Alien: Isolation and clicking on the Support tab in the Alien: Isolation pre-game Options window. In the Support tab, click on the Generate Report button. Once the report is generated it will appear as a file in your ~/Downloads folder (the “~” symbol refers to your home directory). Now click on the Create Email button. Remember to attach the Alien Isolation Report.txt file to your email.
In your email, please include a brief description of the problem you have experienced with Alien: Isolation.
email: support@feralinteractive.com
Please check the warranty information provided by the Mac App Store.