14 DAY TRIAL // Alien: Isolation -The Collection will arrive tomorrow and Feral Interactive, the studio that ported the game for Linux users, has just released the official system requirements.
Alien: Isolation is one of the best looking games on the Linux platform right now, and that is an increasingly difficult bar to pass. The developers of the game, Creative Assembly, put a lot of work into the game, and they tried to make it as scary as possible. They needed a powerful engine, and they built one from the ground up, which incidentally is also quite flexible and can be made to run on Linux.
"Will Alien: Isolation - The Collection play nice with your Mac or Linux PC? Or will it burst through the casing? Find out here. Time to tool up for the launch of Alien: Isolation - The Collection for Linux and Mac because the system requirements are out!" reads the announcement made by Feral.
The funny thing is that they say stuff like "burst through the casing" or "tool up," but the truth is that the system requirements are not all that big. Users will need to have at least Ubuntu 14.04.3 or SteamOS (64-bit), a 2.6 GHz processor, 8GB of RAM, 35GB of HDD space, and a video card with 2GB of memory.
AMD is not supported, again
And here comes the kicker. For Alien: Isolation, the Intel and AMD GPUs are not supported. This is bound to upset quite a few people, but this is not the first game with this problem and it's not going to be the last either.
AMD does have a stellar record when it comes to driver support, and the company doesn't seem to do anything in this regard. The funny thing is that the latest drivers released by AMD had an entry that mentioned a fix for the latest Alien game, which, in fact, ruined the surprise for Feral, announcing that a Linux game was in the works. Now, Feral is saying that AMD hardware is not supported, at least not for now.
Oh, the irony.