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culkid
2003-02-21, 07:03 PM
i just signed up for beta, and when it asked for my video card, i have a radeon 9500, IT WASNT A CHOICE!! will i be able to play with my 9500?

Khronos
2003-02-21, 07:04 PM
i believe there was an "other" category right?(or was that for sound cards etc.)

and plus your DXdiag should include your vid card.
I wouldn't worry about it if i were you.

maybe im wrong?

Saint
2003-02-21, 07:10 PM
You're are fine calm down, I put GeForce 4 Ti4600 cause that is the card I have in my computer, but the computer I signed up on only has a GeForce 2 in it, but they will realize that my Diag is not the computer I will have in 2 days as soon as I get everything installed on it.

Khronos
2003-02-21, 07:14 PM
speakin of worrying...im actually worried my lil 64mb Intel card will make me not wanted for beta..but what can ya do? (except buy a new card hehe)

:(

Oh well ill have a new card by the time PlanetSide is released anyways so then i cna play
:love:

OmnipotentKiwi
2003-02-21, 08:16 PM
Guys, they are taking 20,000 people, I doubt they truly give a damn.

Nightmare
2003-02-21, 08:17 PM
depends on how many people sign up.

OmnipotentKiwi
2003-02-21, 08:23 PM
I doubt they will even look at anything if more then 20,000 sign up. They will just randomly select. They want to get a huge cross-section anyhow. This is a test of full compatability.

The only thing I would imagine excluding you is running a non-supported OS, or working for a company they don't want to allow in.

Saint
2003-02-21, 08:24 PM
Chances are if you signed up for open beta, and your specs are a little below the min reqs you might actually get in, because they want to see if your computer can handle it.

Nightmare
2003-02-21, 08:28 PM
cool, although mine only meet about half of what they would want. (500MHz instead of 1GHz, etc.)

Nightmare
2003-02-21, 08:44 PM
Just noticed something. Although I don't know the exact number, there aren't going to be 20,000 people accepted yet. That is for the open beta.

diluted
2003-02-21, 08:49 PM
..this is for open beta

and wow im glad i went through that terms and agreement. they have checkpoints that ur supposed to check throughout to filter ppl who just fly right to the bottom and slam on 'accept'

btw i feel like i am getting in since i have a very nice computer. i had to do (model or higher) for like every one :)

Nightmare
2003-02-21, 08:53 PM
This is for open beta? I coulda sworn it was gonna be later. Oh well, still cool.

Scarab
2003-02-21, 09:16 PM
I'm glad it's open beta...that means the game is closer to coming out instead of another closed beta.

Moleculor
2003-02-21, 10:07 PM
No. NO NO NO NO NO! This is -not- exclusively for open beta, unless they plan on having only a SINGLE restricted beta phase, which I -highly- doubt. (Though since they're doing external beta so late in the process, the chance that there's only one phase to the restricted beta is a bit higher.)

This is for any and all future beta openings, both closed and open. Unless you just selected Open Beta on your app, at which point you'll only be getting the chance at open beta.

OmnipotentKiwi
2003-02-21, 10:27 PM
Originally posted by Moleculor
No. NO NO NO NO NO! This is -not- exclusively for open beta, unless they plan on having only a SINGLE restricted beta phase, which I -highly- doubt. (Though since they're doing external beta so late in the process, the chance that there's only one phase to the restricted beta is a bit higher.)

This is for any and all future beta openings, both closed and open. Unless you just selected Open Beta on your app, at which point you'll only be getting the chance at open beta.

No, applying in November made you elligible for closed beta, they stated they wouldn't let new applicants in till open beta.

Duritz
2003-02-22, 09:46 AM
Then why was there a choice between closed beta and open beta?

No, the new applicants for closed beta will probably be applying for the last stages of closed beta, and then moved over to the open beta part.

OmnipotentKiwi
2003-02-22, 02:40 PM
Originally posted by Duritz
Then why was there a choice between closed beta and open beta?

No, the new applicants for closed beta will probably be applying for the last stages of closed beta, and then moved over to the open beta part.

No, it is called they reused the exact same app as before. That is also why you couldn't find any of the new model video cards on the app, as it is the same one. Dave covered the fact that new apps is ONLY for open beta weeks ago.

OmnipotentKiwi
2003-02-22, 03:03 PM
Originally stated by Dave "SmokeJumper" Georgeson
We will be opening up the beta applications again just before we do the mass external beta. For the closed beta that we will be doing soon, we are going to use the existing applications that were created originally in November. Those mail-outs will happen next week.

Kidshocker
2003-02-22, 03:08 PM
lets just all pray they won't see our computer specs before choosing us :P