Au Ra Twitter Campaign vs Console players

[Mishini_Dracoto]

The benchmark doesn't have very stern requirements for running. DirectX 9 and Windows Vista/7 are pretty much all it needs. If you're posting in this thread, your computer most likely is beefy enough to run it. It may not run it WELL, but it will run it. If it runs, you should be able to crank out an Au Ra. It might be slow and jerky if your computer really does suck, but give it a try before assuming that the benchmark won't work for you!

especially because you don't need to run the benchmark, you just need to launch the menu, and go into character creation. People are able to install it and run it to get a result of "Insufficient" so I don't see why they can't download it and run it.

It would be nice if they tossed in the Au Ra to the PS4, even if we can't complete the procss to log into the game with an Au Ra. (Since PS4 Share can directly upload screenshots to twitter . . . ) but they don't. there will be more contests in the future. Don't sweat it so much.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

My craptop can't run the benchmark which means it can't run the character creator. It's a bit disappointing but what can you do? Like a bunch of other console players I'm just going to have to wait until June to make an Au'Ra. Patience is a virtue that I lack but I'll just have to be for now.

I'm in the same situation... My PC is about 5-6 years old, it cannot support the benchmark for Heavensward... I play on PS4 and was so looking forward to having some fun in creating an Au'Ra. Then I heard about the Twitter campaign. I'm disappointed this is not including us console players, it's just not fair. Now I have to wait until June 23rd to trying the character creator?? Yeah, this hardly seems fair.

[raelgun]

I get that it would require a lot of resources that are best used elsewhere, but it would be lovely if they could have made just a character creation tool we could have downloaded from the PSN store.

We don't need the benchmark as we know its made to play on the PS3/4. It would just be nice to be given the option to play around with the Au'Ra. Or have it patched into the start screen.

Sony charges developers anything uploaded to the PSN store, anything even demos or stuff like this, why would they pay sony that, your problem should lie with sony.

[Seryne]

I'm in the same situation... My PC is about 5-6 years old, it cannot support the benchmark for Heavensward... I play on PS4 and was so looking forward to having some fun in creating an Au'Ra. Then I heard about the Twitter campaign. I'm disappointed this is not including us console players, it's just not fair. Now I have to wait until June 23rd to trying the character creator?? Yeah, this hardly seems fair.

The laptop I'm trying to run it on is only two years old. I keep getting the fatal error crap so I've just given up. I'm pretty sure we'll get to play during early access though. That's June 19th I think. Still that's in June and that seems like forever away.

[Nominous]

I'm in the same situation... My PC is about 5-6 years old, it cannot support the benchmark for Heavensward... I play on PS4 and was so looking forward to having some fun in creating an Au'Ra. Then I heard about the Twitter campaign. I'm disappointed this is not including us console players, it's just not fair. Now I have to wait until June 23rd to trying the character creator?? Yeah, this hardly seems fair.

It doesn't need to support the benchmark. It needs to support character creator, which is literally just a character model standing in open space. You can turn it down to lowest settings and run it at 60fps on even the oldest of computers. I ran 1.0's character creator on max, at above 50fps with an integrated laptop graphics card. I can agree that this situation is an inconvenience at best, but nothing at all is stopping anyone from participating in the contest if they're so inclined to.

Barring the obvious complications in the release of a character creation client for PS4, I do hope they can make it happen for next expansion. Even if I still can't understand how people don't have any capable computer in this day and age...

[Lollerblades]

Sony charges developers anything uploaded to the PSN store, anything even demos or stuff like this, why would they pay sony that, your problem should lie with sony.

I don't have an issue with SE, nor Sony. I was just giving my opinion. I'd much rather they patched in the character creator so at least the console users could experiment.

It's just an idea and by no means an attack on SE themselves.

[Kuro_Mao]

Still trying to figure out exclusive to pc players. Works on Mac too... sorry to ps3 and ps4 players. Kinda upsetting, but the benchmark just ran at work on a machine from 2005 Celeron. Had a 512 mb video card. It scored a whopping 488.. but my point is access to a machine it can run on, is not a problem. Hell, had the wife try on a public access machine in a library. 15 minutes to download, no install, and making her character with 8 minutes after. How lazy are people, I mean you don't have a laptop, or a friend with a pc to make all your entries?

[Ryuukishi]

Seems like people are grasping for reasons to complain, to me.

Are you new here? That is this message board's raison d'etre.

[NaliaBrown]

Still trying to figure out exclusive to pc players. Works on Mac too... sorry to ps3 and ps4 players. Kinda upsetting, but the benchmark just ran at work on a machine from 2005 Celeron. Had a 512 mb video card. It scored a whopping 488.. but my point is access to a machine it can run on, is not a problem. Hell, had the wife try on a public access machine in a library. 15 minutes to download, no install, and making her character with 8 minutes after. How lazy are people, I mean you don't have a laptop, or a friend with a pc to make all your entries?

It worked on the two computers you tried. This means it works on EVERY computer!

Um. No. I tried two nights, for hours, trying to get this to run on my laptop. It doesn't work. I have given up and will be waiting until I get the expansion on my PS4 to create my Au Ra girl.

[Seryne]

Still trying to figure out exclusive to pc players. Works on Mac too... sorry to ps3 and ps4 players. Kinda upsetting, but the benchmark just ran at work on a machine from 2005 Celeron. Had a 512 mb video card. It scored a whopping 488.. but my point is access to a machine it can run on, is not a problem. Hell, had the wife try on a public access machine in a library. 15 minutes to download, no install, and making her character with 8 minutes after. How lazy are people, I mean you don't have a laptop, or a friend with a pc to make all your entries?

My laptop just won't run it. I keep getting a DirectX fatal error. If I could figure out what's causing it I'd be able to with a horrible score. I don't care about the contest honestly. I just want to play around with the Au'Ra.