well i know now it's being optimized but when they release the game you think i can run it at max?
playing for two years at medium settings, this did not suit me, but in 2020 I bought an MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GAMING X video card, bought DDR3 16Gb Kindston HyperX FURY 1866 MHz, my processor is AMD FX 6100, I started playing at ultra settings, but I was going to buy an AMD FX 8350 to make it even better, but now I have to say goodbye to Elite Dangerous.
I´m now playing first phases of alpha with i5-3470 and 1050Ti 4GB just fine, even though those specs are under minimum required for alpha.
And if this goes anything like first alpha / beta before game originally launched back at 2014, lots of things will still change (for either better or worse, more likely towards better optimization in general).
And then there is the "last generation console thing":
If PS4 or XBox One can run Odyssey at launch at low or medium graphics at worst, then I assume that much more recent PC´s will be able to run ED : Odyssey with good graphics.
My bet for high spec requirements for Odyssey alpha is that it has something to do with the optimization, because if you put your goal high, there is more room to come down from.
Or then again they were afraid alpha or beta will do some damage on some hardware, and wanted people play safe, even though they still have run it with GTX 760