Battlefield 3 PC system requirements – Gaming News
Battlefield 3, Electronic Arts’ return to the core Battlefield series, is nearing its eagerly anticipated release date, and as the day draws ever closer, the inevitable flood of news begins to flow.
GameStop, one of the United States’ largest video game retailer, gave the PC community of gamers an idea of what they would have to beef their systems up to if they wanted to run Battlefield 3. GameStop released both a list of Recommended Specs along with
a Minimum Specs list, to let PC gamers know exactly how much they ought to be saving till the game’s release.
The Recommended Specs were listed as follows:
“Hard Drive Space: 15GB (Disc version), 10 GB (Digital version)
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon HD 6850”
For those PC gamers who are cautious about beefing up their system for a game they have not played as yet, especially when Modern Warfare 3 will be releasing around the same time, there is an alternative. Battlefield 3 can also run on the following specifications:
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
Operating System: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card
However, gamers are urged to be cautious as neither DICE, the game’s developer, nor EA, the game’s publisher, have confirmed the specifications.
This time around EA is opting to make PC the flagship platform for one of its titles. While this does not mean that EA would port inferior models on to PCs earlier, what it means is that the game was designed and developed with PCs in mind, meaning that
the game would look its best on that platform.
The move should not come as a surprise as the Battlefield series, excluding the Bad Company spin offs, were all known as PC titles. Therefore EA is aiming to stay true to that fan base and fittingly so.
EA also confirmed that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version of the game would only run at 30fps (Frames per Second) while the PC version would run at a cool 60fps. The reason, according to EA, was that the Frostbite 2 engine had so much going on in terms
of rendering that consoles would not be able to provide a smooth 60fps output.
However, EA also conceded that the PlayStation 3 version of the game would perform better than the Xbox 360 version. Again gamers are reminded that this does not mean that console gamers are getting an inferior version; it means that they are getting a version
optimized for their systems.
Battlefield 3 is due out on the 28th of October on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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