Alien: Isolation is undoubtedly one of the most popular horror titles of the Xbox One generation, but players have long reported mixed experiences with its performance, with some suggesting it runs perfectly fine on any console they've tried it on, while others have reported bouts of lag and stuttering - even on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
The game was recently added to the list of FPS Boost titles on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, but it doesn't appear to have fixed the issue, and Xbox's Jason Ronald has confirmed the team is investigating:
Looking back over the years, players have highlighted that the game's frame rate has sometimes dropped to severe levels on Xbox One, and a whole bunch of fixes have been suggested including changing the hard drive the game runs on, clearing the console's cache, and even clearing the console's Blu-Ray persistent storage!
Then, the release of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this past November appeared to affect Alien: Isolation once again - including for those who had no issues on Xbox One - with reports of "big dips in framerate, like single digits."
Of course, assuming the eventual fix will be applied to the FPS Boost version of the game, players on Xbox One may still need to utilise workarounds in the future, but hopefully the issue disappears forever on Series X and S very soon.
Have you run into performance issues with Alien: Isolation on Xbox? Let us know down below.
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Well then. I was just about to start playing it, think I'll push it back to my post Yakuza playlist
I can chime in on this one.
There was a rewards task for this game a few weeks ago, a repeated one. I did it first time round on a Xbox one X, no problems.
This time round, it was impossible on my series X, the game chugged at about 1 frame per minute in the menu.Restarts did nothing.
I tried it on my series s and it initially worked. After I completed the task I ran round a little and suddenly started to experience severe frame drops, then it dropped to maybe 1fps. I quit and it then went the same way as my series X, unplayable.
The game was a fresh install on both consoles.
I was thinking about this, it's had a frame boost, maybe it runs at 2fps now! 🤣
I could be wrong but sure I read that the switch version of all things runs and looks better than the ps4 and 360 versions?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/video_alien_isolation_looks_better_on_switch_than_ps4_says_digital_foundry
Need to get around to playing this, I have the physical copy still waiting to be played.
@suikoden Yeah I remember the digital foundry video. Even though it runs at a lower resolution on the switch the antialiasing is much superior and eliminates the jaggies which are pretty bad on PS4 and Xbox One. It's a shame that the back compat feature set doesn't include additional antialiasing isn't it?
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