Alien Nations
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Developers | |
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Neo Software Produktions | |
Publishers | |
1999-2011 | JoWood Productions |
2011-2016 | Nordic Games |
2016-present | THQ Nordic |
North America | Simon & Schuster Interactive |
Russia | 1C Company |
Poland | CD Projekt |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 11, 1999 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 2001 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select, Multiple select |
Genres | Building, RTS |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Alien Nations |
Alien Nations | |
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Alien Nations | 1999 |
The Nations | 2001 |
Alien Nations is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building and RTS game in the Alien Nations series.
Key points
- Also released as Die Völker in Germany and Amazons & Aliens.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Illegal Table of Contents DRM | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Mission Pack |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Use replacement intro.avi |
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Apply the Alien Nations intro skip. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Savegames\an.cfg[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Savegames[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Displays at only 4:3 resolutions 800x600 and 1024x768. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Effects, Music, Mentor. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | Retail only Details | |||
Russian | Retail only |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 3 | |||
Online play | 3 | The official multiplayer service was shut down. |
Issues fixed
Crashes and renderer problems
Use DDrawCompat[1] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 6 |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95/98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 233 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 130 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 8.6 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 96 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 200 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 6 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Nessy on 2021-11-20