Romping around in The Isle as your favorite meat-eating or plant-munching dinosaurs is a fun time. Especially when you gather your friends on a custom dedicated server. But before you start living the dino life, you should make sure your PC can run the game. Here, we've outlined both the minimum and recommended PC specs for The Isle so you can ensure your rig is up to snuff.

The Isle System Requirements: Minimum & Recommended PC Specs & Settings

As an early access game, The Isle is still unfinished. As a result, it's not fully optimized, it has its fair share of bugs, and it can experience general online stability issues. With all of those Early Access quirks, it can be tricky to know if problems you experience are because of your PC or the game itself. If you're having some stuttering gameplay trouble, here are a few things you can do to potentially improve performance:

• Set the following graphics settings to Medium or Low:
  • Post Processing
  • Anti-Aliasing
  • Shadows
  • Effects
  • View Distance
  • Foliage
• Anytime you change your graphics settings, restart the game.
• Ensure the game's Smooth FPS box has been checked.
• Use the FPS cap setting to set a hard cap for your game's frame rate.
  • A frame rate of 60 or 30 is recommended if your game is truly experiencing stuttering.
• Ensure your graphics card drivers are always up to date.
• Delete your game's Config Folder by doing the following:
  • Close the game.
  • Open your computer's Run box by pressing the Windows Key & R.
  • Type "%localappdata%" and press Enter.
  • Scroll until you find the file named "TheIsle" and enter it.
  • Enter the file "Saved" and delete the Config folder inside.
  • This can remove unwanted junk files that are bogging down your game's performance.

For the best results, look at the system specs listed below. These are the official recommendations from The Isle developer Afterthought LLC. As the names imply, one group of specs will allow you to run the game, but at the lowest possible settings. For the best results, you'll want to meet the recommended system requirements.

Minimum System Requirements for The Isle

• OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD - 3.0 GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet Connection
• Storage: 25 GB

Recommended System Requirements for The Isle

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD - 3.4 GHz
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet Connection
• Storage: 25GB

Unfortunately, there isn't a demo or downloadable benchmark test for The Isle. However, Steam does have its generous refund policy, which could give you plenty of time to hop in and see if your machine has any trouble running the game. Additionally, The Isle costs a relatively affordable $19.99 USD on Steam.