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[hlhbk]

My specs are as follows:

Intel Core I7 2600K
Nvidia GTX 670 4 GB
8 GB RAM
Win 7
SSD

I run at a constant 60 FPS at 1080p with everything maxed.


To remove intro movies (20th century fox, Creative Assembly, AMD):

Go to \DATA\UI\MOVIES in the installation folder.
2. Delete or rename AMD_IDENT.USM, FOX_IDENT.USM, and CA_IDENT.USM.

per http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Alien:_Isolation

 

[SolarPowered]

wow @ those frame rates.

No one should have trouble with this game.

 

[Levito]

Boy the GTX 580 is such a beast, thing is like 4 years old and can still pull off most games 60+ FPS on highest settings no problem at 1080p.

 

[MRORANGE]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

 

[Kezen]

For reference the console versions are limited to 30fps and it sounds like the PC has graphical effects absent on consoles :

Alien: Isolation' is a game that plunges players into a haunting, terrifying atmosphere," said Clive Gratton, Lead Programmer, Creative Assembly. "The visual experience plays such a fundamental role in the 'feel' of the game that we went the extra mile to craft an in-house engine that fully articulates our vision. AMD has graciously helped us augment that engine for the PC with a number of effects, such as contact-hardening shadows, compute-based particles, HDAO and DirectX 11 tessellation. Support for immersion and performance technologies like AMD Eyefinity and CrossFire technologies make the whole PC experience even better!"

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

It should be good at 720p.

 

[Murtrod]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Nah.

 

[hlhbk]

wow @ those frame rates.

No one should have trouble with this game.

I have the game preordered for both PC and PS4. If it runs great on PC I am not sure if I will keep my PS4 preorder since NBA 2k15 comes out the same day. I just wish I knew for sure. Ever since the new consoles have come out PC ports have been terrible.

 

[ghst]

For reference the console versions are limited to 30fps and it sounds like the PC has graphical effects absent on consoles :

pretty insane considering a 7850 breezes past 60fps. the engine must be more CPU bound.

 

[bidguy]

sounds like its unoptimized on consoles

 

[Brannon]

What's the equivalent of a 660ti on there?

 

[ViviOggi]

Looks like I'm in the clear.

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

Better get the PS4 version just to be sure

 

[Nzyme32]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

640x480 1fps. Game will be terrifying

 

[Krejlooc]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

you need a 2TB SSD to run this comfortably, sorry.

 

[Kezen]

pretty insane considering a 7850 breezes past 60fps. the engine must be more CPU bound.

Don't tell me that you don't prefer the cinematic feel of 30fps ?

 

[Leb]

What's the equivalent of a 660ti on there?

Just slightly slower than the 670s.

 

[Turin Turambar]

I'm not sure we are going to need this thread, really.

 

[SolarPowered]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

So no 8GB cards? Maybe you should consider getting the PS4 version instead.

I have the game preordered for both PC and PS4. If it runs great on PC I am not sure if I will keep my PS4 preorder since NBA 2k15 comes out the same day. I just wish I knew for sure. Ever since the new consoles have come out PC ports have been terrible.

Doesn't seem any worse than usual to me as a 2GB 670 owner. Considering the lack of bodies and commotion to eat up raw processing power in this game it should be a piece of cake.

 

[Kezen]

I'm not sure we are going to need this thread, really.

We need it to praise Creative Assembly.

So no 8GB cards? Maybe you should consider getting the PS4 version instead.

The PS4 has 8GB of GDDR5 for graphics and the Carmack law stipulates that you need 2x that for equal performance so we need 16GB !!

 

[mrklaw]

Are there any benchmarks for 2560x1440? Wondering what I could run at with my 970 downsampling

 

[Durante]

Seems like a good candidate for 4k downsampling!

 

[Kezen]

Are there any benchmarks for 2560x1440? Wondering what I could run at with my 970 downsampling

1600p benchmark here :
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/alien-isolation-test-gpu.html

 

[JaseC]

Are there any benchmarks for 2560x1440? Wondering what I could run at with my 970 downsampling

Here's 2560x1600:

Edit: Beaten by moomooseconds.

 

[Mupod]

Are there any benchmarks for 2560x1440? Wondering what I could run at with my 970 downsampling

should be fine at 4k even.

 

[TheRed]

Are there any benchmarks for 2560x1440? Wondering what I could run at with my 970 downsampling

I run Mordor at 2560x1440 on my 970 with almost all settings ultra and get consistent 50+ fps so it'll probably run this game smooth as butter at even higher downsampling.

 

[Serandur]

lol 1920x1080


Guys on 780s/290s/970s and up really shouldn't trouble themselves with such a lowly relic of a standard.




Impressive-results with the SLI/CF setups, I would have thought CPU limitations would have prevented such high FPS if the game were so heavily CPU-bound (unless it's making good use of multiple threads, which is rare for the truly CPU-bound games, hence why they're usually so explicitly CPU-limited).

 

[Spaghetti]

hrm. think there will be a benchmark tool?

 

[The Janitor]

pretty insane considering a 7850 breezes past 60fps. the engine must be more CPU bound.

The CPU used in the benchmarks is extreme, so I'm thinking the same thing.

 

[Randam]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

thoughts?
you wasted a lot of money on those stuff and still can't play mordor with ultra textures. :lol

 

[Durante]

The CPU used in the benchmarks is extreme, so I'm thinking the same thing.

It looks to scale really nicely with CPU performance and threads as well, if you check the CPU benchmark part of the article.

 

[Spazznid]

Dat 120 fps gaming on my 780.

Can't wait. Gonna be so gud.

 

[Denton]

With those framerates, what's it like on consoles? I assume 1080p/60fps ?
Seems like really well optimized engine.

 

[JaseC]

lol 1920x1080


Guys on 780s/290s/970s and up really shouldn't trouble themselves with such a lowly relic of a standard.

I run two 670s and still use 1680x1050. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"... although that being said my monitor is literally falling apart in places. Maybe I'll buy a new one after Steam's Winter Sale.

 

[The Janitor]

It looks to scale really nicely with CPU performance and threads as well, if you check the CPU benchmark part of the article.

Ah, I missed that.

 

[Derpcrawler]

The CPU used in the benchmarks is extreme, so I'm thinking the same thing.

It has lower IPC than Devil's Canyon, X99 CPUs are more for workstations than gaming, i7 4790K will outperform it in games, as well as any Core i5/3 variant, since games are more sensitive to IPC performance, rather than scale with number of cores.

I run two 670s and still use 1680x1050. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"... although that being said my monitor is literally falling apart in places. Maybe I'll buy a new one after Steam's Winter Sale.

Dat silky smooth 144FPS+ though...

 

[Nethaniah]

This seems to run great on almost anything, job well done by the devs.

Side note, AMD not doing too hot lately with Mordor and this game now being beaten quite badly on the cpu front.

 

[real_slime]

What about GT 630 2gb VRAM, 2.7ghz i5 quad core? I don't need full specs or anything just playable.

 

[pfkas]

played this on x1 at egx. ran like a dog

 

[checkeredknight]

I have a few years old Nvidia GTS 560. I never really play PC games, but I really want to try this. CPU, RAM and PSU isn't a problem. I don't really care what frame rate - so long as it's above 30FPS. Should I go for it?

 

[Corpekata]

Whaddya know, developer that's generally PC focused made a decent PC version.

 

[CyberPunked]

Hope my PC can run it,

Asus X99 DLX Motherboard
Intel Core i7 5960X @ 4Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz DDR4
GTX 980 SLI
Samsung 1TB SSD
Corsair 850w PSU

Thoughts?

Lol. No joke you'll probably get 300+fps

 

[Nethaniah]

I have a few years old Nvidia GTS 560. I never really play PC games, but I really want to try this. CPU, RAM and PSU isn't a problem. I don't really care what frame rate - so long as it's above 30FPS. Should I go for it?

I would advice against it imho.

Edit: ignore this post.

 

[Derpcrawler]

I wonder if consoles will be locked to 30FPS again. It seems, that at least PS4 should be bale to handle 60FPS no problem, from these tests it seems like game should run at 1080p@60FPS on PS4 and 900p@60FPS on Xbox One, if taking only GPU into account.

If Alien runs at 30FPS on PS4 and Xbox One, seems like CPUs are the cause of these, probably being same case with Shadow of Mordor.

 

[Corpekata]

I have a few years old Nvidia GTS 560. I never really play PC games, but I really want to try this. CPU, RAM and PSU isn't a problem. I don't really care what frame rate - so long as it's above 30FPS. Should I go for it?

Don't see why not, it's on the benchmarks. 1080 at VHQ will get 50ish FPS it appears. Knockit down a couple pegs and it'll probably be 60.

 

[UnrealEck]

It's a game full of small rooms and cooridors. It doesn't surprise me much that it runs so well.

 

[Kezen]

I wonder if consoles will be locked to 30FPS again. It seems, that at least PS4 should be bale to handle 60FPS no problem, from these tests it seems like game should run at 1080p@60FPS on PS4 and 900p@60FPS on Xbox One, if taking only GPU into account.

If Alien runs at 30FPS on PS4 and Xbox One, seems like CPUs are the cause of these, probably being same case with Shadow of Mordor.

It's 30fps on consoles apparently. Never heard any report of 60fps but the hardware could allow that.

 

[checkeredknight]

Don't see why not, it's on the benchmarks. 1080 at VHQ will get 50ish FPS it appears. Knockit down a couple pegs and it'll probably be 60.

Thanks, sounds excellent. As I say, I'm not really fussed about frame rate. So long as it runs and my PC doesn't explode. I have an i7 processor, 16GB RAM and a 900w PSU. It's just my graphics card that's out of date...!

I would advice against it.

Why?

 

[Lord Error]

Maybe it's just due to art direction, but to me, the game looks crazy good. Very surprised at these framerates. I can't imagine this game being very CPU heavy either (you do after all get the same game with same exact gameplay features on PS360), so it's that much more weird that it's not 60FPS on PS4 if it can run 50 average even on 7770.

 

[rtcn63]

From video reviews, the game looked pretty dated graphically. Or maybe I watched wrong.

 

[Nethaniah]

Thanks, sounds excellent. As I say, I'm not really fussed about frame rate. So long as it runs and my PC doesn't explode. I have an i7 processor, 16GB RAM and a 900w PSU. It's just my graphics card that's out of date...!



Why?

I think you'll encounter issues and might have to lower way too many settings and in turn would be unable to get a decent looking game with it nevermind an average of 30 fps.

Or worse, having to drop the resolution.

Spoiler

just my two cents, i have my limits as far as lowering settings

Edit: ignore this post.

 

[catmincer]

Cool. My laptop would be able to run this properly. I'm excited now.