Then again, people pay extra to alpha test so I guess FD gets what they, err, get for.I was thinking earlier that perhaps they need to have alpha testers sign an affidavit or some form of consent form, followed by a 20 questions that have to be answered correctly to 90% or you're out. One of the questions would be: "Is this a finished product without any bugs or features missing? Yes No." Wrong answer disqualifies you.
Odyssey Alpha PC Specifications & Download Time
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True. They get paid in dollars and salt.
Mine still says longer than the trip to Hutton.....
Will the game with Odyssey continue to support SLI? SLI works quite well on my Titan Black cards for the release game as it is now. They're getting a bit long in the tooth now though and would struggle to run the game well on one card. I know Nvidia has dropped SLI support on newer cards and games this year, with the last card to support it being the 3090, of all things. 
Can you see which part of your system is bottlenecking? Are there settings you can increase without any further performance loss?
At least for Hutton you get a free Anaconda. But here...
Anyway, finally finished, and played a bit... performance a bit poor on my computer, but that was expected. Love the look. Really think Frontier got something good going on here. A lot of question marks in my mind how to use tools and whatnots. Had no issues with key-bindings. Took on a mission. Went for a Apex trip. Got to my destination. Got lost in the building. Got attacked and now stuck in a bedroom with doors closed and no button to open them... ROFLMAO!!!! Love it!
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Does this mean that a system with only 8GB won't be able to run Odyssey ?
at high 12-10 5 frames, at low 10-15-30
If I play horizons then I have 60-45 frames.
I have the same issue with an extra on top: there is simply no PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER_64 folder anywhere in my appdata. I have Frontier Developments folders and one of them has this. I have tried installing Odyssey 2 times so far (3 hours down the drain so far), ran out of space both times. How do I mlink a folder which does not seem to exist...?Thanks Alec and SystematicChaos - I had exactly the same problem. Main game installed on SSD on C: drive but want Alpha installed somewhere else.
To be SUPER explicit with how to set up the link ('cos sometimes you have to scratch your head a bit over the syntax)
- Main game is installed on C:\Users\sinhedgie\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\ (note I'm using the FDev launcher, will be different for steam i suspect)
- I want the alpha files to be installed on my D: drive
So I create a folder D:\EliteDangerousAlpha\PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER_64
Then I opened an elevated CMD prompt (i.e. run as administrator)
Then I ran the following cmd.....
C:\WINDOWS\system32>mklink /J C:\Users\sinhedgie\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER_64 D:\EliteDangerousAlpha\PUBLIC_TEST_SERVER_64
Again - sure others have figured this out if they needed to, just wanted to give an explicit example
Then ran the installation and the alpha installed on the d: drive.
(I am seeing hidden / system files to that is not an issue).
This is not how I imagined this launch and my evening...
Well, my download time dropped from 20 hours to TWO DAYS.....
It won't show up there. You'll see it in the Elite launcher.cannot install Odyssey...the game does not show up in my Steam library, and in store it says it IS in my library...this sucks.
It told me something like 4 months at one point.
And if you still don't see it there (like I and many others have encountered), you should make sure your Frontier account and Steam account are linked.
Once I did that, it showed up and I was able to get in!
To do this, on the launcher I clicked on 'Options' near the top and then 'Log Out Machine'. After that it automatically kicked me to the linking screen so I could link to my Steam account, and then Odyssey showed up on my launcher.
same here waited and waited and then somewhere down the line I realized my account is not linked to steam, went through process, Alpha popped in launcher instantlyAnd if you still don't see it there (like I and many others have encountered), you should make sure your Frontier account and Steam account are linked.
Once I did that, it showed up and I was able to get in!
To do this, on the launcher I clicked on 'Options' near the top and then 'Log Out Machine'. After that it automatically kicked me to the linking screen so I could link to my Steam account, and then Odyssey showed up on my launcher.