Comments on: MacOS System Requirements

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:24:39 +0000

I bought this and I have a imac with 10.11.6. After installation I received message that it would not work without “Metal’. I don’t know how to install metal. please help.

By: John Artry

John Artry — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:31:02 +0000

I bought the witness on a separate Apple account on my iPad before I bought a computer. When I got the computer I set up family sharing but when I went to get the game it said I had to purchase it again. Please help!

By: iPadCary

iPadCary — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:39:53 +0000

Man, I gotta visit this blog more often! lol
I had ZERO idea “The Witness” was *finally* on Mac!
Will be buying it the instant after I tap the POST COMMENT button!
Thank God I just got a new 2017 MacBook ….

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:47:05 +0000

Any chance this is coming to Nintendo Switch? Otherwise I’ll bite the bullet and get it on PS4 but I’d much rather play it at the airport waiting for flights! :D

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 06:05:43 +0000

Hi,

Although the 2012 Mac Mini meets the minimum requirements (mine has 16GB, 2.6 GHz i7),will it a ‘pleasant’ experience running it on this machine?
Thanks,
Richard

By: Mekani

Mekani — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:37:14 +0000

I have an iMac 2009 version running the latest version of El Capitan, with a 2.66Ghz Intel core i5, 12 GB RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB Graphics.
Will The Witness run properly on my computer? It would be nice to know before I purchase it. Thanks

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:33:44 +0000

I have a Mac Pro (late 21013) with AMD FirePro D300 graphics cards (which are supposed to support Metal) and have major framerate problems in parts of the game and occassional crashes. The game runs just fine on my Mid 2015 MacBook Pro with AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics even on high graphics quality..

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:22:00 +0000

Wow. I think my four year old macbook air just about sneaks in there. Not that it would be a pleasant experience, but I’m certainly curious after devouring this on the ps4. Best of luck with the iOS release, which really is a unique proposition I think.

By: max

max — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:00:25 +0000

@Peter I’ve got a 2014 13 inch MBP with Intel Iris graphics, and the game ran really surprisingly well. IIRC, I kept it at medium settings and only rarely saw stuttering frame rates.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:33:59 +0000

I assume that macbooks with non-discrete GPU are out? So no Intel graphics on those mentioned devices?

By: brahn

brahn — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 03:57:38 +0000

I asked earlier about how to move save files between machines when purchasing from the Mac App Store, and I think I’ve figured it out. Leaving the results here in case others come looking as well —

Moving the files located in these two directories from one machine to another seems to have done the trick:

~/Library/Containers/com.thekla.the-witness/Data/Library/Saved Application State/com.thekla.the-witness.savedState
~/Library/Containers/com.thekla.the-witness/Data/Library/Application Support/The Witness

I did not test whether moving the second directory without moving the first would have been sufficient.

By: brahn

brahn — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 03:13:23 +0000

Delighted to have the Witness on MacOS — but now I have to switch machines! How can I move my save files? (Purchased from the Mac app store.)

I found ~/Library/Containers/com.thekla.the-witness/Data/Library/Saved Application State/com.thekla.the-witness.savedState but transferring the three files in that directory (data.data, window_1.data, windows.plist) from the old machine to the new didn’t seem to have any effect.

Thanks for your help!