Battlefield 3 PC system specs revealed

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The Battlefield 3 demo – powered by DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine – certainly impressed yesterday at E3. However, considering the power of system it was running on, many of us were left wondering how proficiently our more modest system set ups would handle the game.

Gamefront suggests that the following specs will be required for Battlefield 3, although without a concrete source it’s possible they may be slightly off the mark.

Minimum System Requirements:

OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7

Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz

RAM: 2GB

Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card.

Graphics card memory: 512 MB

Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

Recommended System Requirements:

OS: Windows 7 64-bit

Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU

RAM: 4GB

Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon HD 6850

Graphics card memory: 1 GB

Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

Battlefield 3 will be released in the UK on October 28.

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Battlefield 3

  • Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
  • Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter

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