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Alien Nations

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Alien Nations
Alien Nations cover
Developers
Neo Software Produktions
Publishers
JoWood Productions
Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows July 1, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) 2001
Alien Nations
Alien Nations 1999
The Nations 2001

General information

Nordic Games Forum - Publisher technical forum (link displays older threads).
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Mac OS
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use replacement intro.avi

Apply the Alien Nations intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegames\an.cfg[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegames[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
3
Online play
3

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

  1. 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