ALPHA (fka Tech Alpha 2) Invite Emails

[Tuskin38 6,499]

Alpha Registration and DX Diag uploading are open again FYI

[rfelger 71]

Beginning to think my I7 with 3.3 GHZ is hurting my chances...

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

7 minutes ago, rfelger said:

Beginning to think my I7 with 3.3 GHZ is hurting my chances...

It's not, there are some people on Reddit saying they got in with rather old Core i5 CPUs (Ivy Bridge and Haswell).

[chuckyb 4]

I have a 4790K and a 780 video card.  I think my video card is hurting my chances right now.

[YVRLHRDXB 321]

From what I've read on reddit it seems like they're still targeting people with 32gb but cpu and video card don't matter much.

[Dirtysouth09 35]

Ok.  So they are opening chances again.  What about those of us that have been registered from day 1.  Sorry,  I just dont get it.

[Baber20 1,438]

1 minute ago, Dirtysouth09 said:

Ok.  So they are opening chances again.  What about those of us that have been registered from day 1.  Sorry,  I just dont get it.

Exactly my thoughts. Why are they opening the registration again for the Alpha? Why not finish inviting the current applicants or atleast those who were the first ones to register for TA1 and are still waiting after 3 months...This is really disheartening.

[zemez 184]

5 minutes ago, Dirtysouth09 said:

Ok.  So they are opening chances again.  What about those of us that have been registered from day 1.  Sorry,  I just dont get it.

Yep, like pulling carpet under your feet.

We have waited months. I checked website and email every day multiple times.

Edited January 23, 2020 by zemez

[hatchna 136]

4 minutes ago, zemez said:

Yep, like pulling carpet under your feet.

We have waited months. I checked website and email every day multiple times.

Same here. It's beginning to get frustrating seeing people that signed up recently getting in over those of use who have been waiting since day 1.

[Mengy 814]

1 minute ago, hatchna said:

Same here. It's beginning to get frustrating seeing people that signed up recently getting in over those of use who have been waiting since day 1.

Yes, yes it is.  😞

Edited January 23, 2020 by Mengy

[rfelger 71]

41 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

It's not, there are some people on Reddit saying they got in with rather old Core i5 CPUs (Ivy Bridge and Haswell).

OH wow,ok who knows, thx for the info!

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

I think this is the recruitment process that they talked about last month, so it was already in the plans. I have the feeling this was supposed to be for the Tech Alpha 3, but now they're probably converging all builds into one since they've made good progress.

Anyway, users with 32GB RAM still seem to be the priority, but there have been quite a few reports of 16GB users getting in this time, and a couple with 8GB even. So they've definitely expanded the hardware range.

[udidwht 133]

Got invite. See my sig for current system specs.

[threexgreen 3,139]

Are we sure they are only going after certain systems specs? They will probably have other criteria as well based on the survey which may explain why some with similar systems to those who have been selected have not been invited (so far).

[udidwht 133]

I'm going to lean towards....

 

They're going to try and have as wide a swath of PC specs as possible (low - high end spec). This way it will give them a better idea as to what final system requirements will be.