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DICE has announced the minimum and recommended system requirements for the Frostbite engine powered Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943. As you can see, you’ll need a pretty powerful rig just to get the games up and running.
Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
Graphics memory: 256MB
OS: Windows XP
Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2), 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
Recommended Frostbite PC Specifications
Processor: Quadcore
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
Graphics memory: 512MB
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2), 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is scheduled for release on March 5, 2010, while Battlefield 1943 is expected in Q1 2010.