Battlefield 3 PC system requirements revealed

Moorpheus on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hahahaha - if I tried to play this on mine, my PC will probably just flash up a message saying 'LOL are you ******* joking?!'

To be fair, my PC meets all the recommended requirements - except for the graphics card. My poor HD 5450 is many orders of magnitude worse than the minimum 3870 the game needs.

Xbox 360 it is

Cogglesz on 20 Sep '11 said:

I'm saving up for a 2gb 6970 right now, and i've got a 3.1ghz quad core cpu and 8gb of ram, however i'm still worried that its going to chug on my 1680x1050 native resolution, i'm done with my old 5770.

Vonshithouse on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

Gambini on 20 Sep '11 said:

Can you run it?

Why yes I can!

Can't bloody wait...!

morpheus2n on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

From what I can tell you your Amstrad would eat this game for breakfast and want seconds lol

Seriously though Looks like I'll be running this a max settings then sweet

hi0marc on 20 Sep '11 said:

Minimum settings and Ps3 it is for me

Vonshithouse on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

From what I can tell you your Amstrad would eat this game for breakfast and want seconds lol

Seriously though Looks like I'll be running this a max settings then sweet

Excellent thanks morpheus2n.

After researching more, it seems it will only ship on 14,268 tapes, result! I'll get the missus to change them for me.

rivariad on 20 Sep '11 said:

SON OF A...

Channel4 on 20 Sep '11 said:

The minimum requirements are pretty much the recommended Crysis specs. The game that made current consoles look obselete is now being made to look obselete. Hurry up new consoles!!!

Is B3 being released on Onlive? I may be tempted to use Onlive if it is.

Sleepaphobic on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hahahaha - if I tried to play this on mine, my PC will probably just flash up a message saying 'LOL are you ******* joking?!'

HAHA that would be awesome.

a 560 isn't too bad tbh but the biggest problem if you want to max it out and everybody should have a quad and 4GB RAM nowadays. If anybody doesn't then maybe it's time to upgrade if you can even call it that (It is like 5 year old technology guys).

mw13 on 20 Sep '11 said:

if you ran it on minimum would it still look better than consoles?

DoomGuy84 on 20 Sep '11 said:

Good luck to all you pc gamers who need to spend £10,000 to play the game to your high standards!

trooperdx3117 on 20 Sep '11 said:

Those actually arent too bad those system requirements are only slightly higher than bad company 2's so basically if you can run bad company 2 above bare minimm then you'll run battlefield 3 fine!

Headsrinker on 20 Sep '11 said:

DoomGuy84

Good luck to all you pc gamers who need to spend £10,000 to play the game to your high standards!

What a load of tosh. Recommended settings:

GTX 560- £150

quad core processor with motherboard- £100 (if that)

4 gig ram - £25

If your upgrapding, it wont cost you much more than £300 to play BF3 (and any other PC) on recomended settings. So anyone jealous of the PC version of BF3 should pipe down a little. PC aren't for the well off, they are very much affordable.

sample3 on 20 Sep '11 said:

DoomGuy84

Good luck to all you pc gamers who need to spend £10,000 to play the game to your high standards!

What a load of tosh. Recommended settings:

GTX 560- £150

quad core processor with motherboard- £100 (if that)

4 gig ram - £25

If your upgrapding, it wont cost you much more than £300 to play BF3 (and any other PC) on recomended settings. So anyone jealous of the PC version of BF3 should pipe down a little. PC aren't for the well off, they are very much affordable.

GTX 560 costs 300$ idiot. More if you live in another country.
A quad core processor and a motherboard: If you want a good processor for BF3, you are going to need the i5 2500k, which is 200$
The motherboard will be a MSI P67, which costs 150-200$. The ram price differs depending on what you want. It can cost 50$ to 100$. And last, but not least, the screen,tower, cpu cooler. When you buy a more powerful cpu and gpu, you are going to need a better tower and cooling, I also assume that most people dont have a 22-24" LED full hd screen. But I am not going to include the prices of these things, as it would just make you look like an idiot even more. So the price for an upgrade consisting of only a CPU, GPU and a motherboard, the price is 700$. PC gaming is everything but cheap.

spaceman_DOUG on 20 Sep '11 said:

Calling people idiot on here really isn't appreciated.

wasted-again on 20 Sep '11 said:

I could scrape through on the minimum spec, but i expect it'd look like a PS2 game running on a slide projector...

nolim on 20 Sep '11 said:

GTX560 for recommended spec, that's a bit harsh!

Mastermue on 20 Sep '11 said:

I guess if I'm getting this game at some point it'll be on the 360 then. Ho hum.

RustySpoon80 on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

Excellent thanks morpheus2n.

After researching more, it seems it will only ship on 14,268 tapes, result! I'll get the missus to change them for me.

Imagine how long that would take to load...brrrr, zzzz, shshhhhhhhhhh. Insert tape 2.
Luckily I have a 6128 so I'll get it on Disk. Will load much faster.

The Bossman on 20 Sep '11 said:

Reckon I'll ask for this as an Xmas gift for PC, need to configure a 360 controller for it too once I've bought one which will be interesting, have only used one once I think at least 8 years ago. My PC probably won't run it on max but if I can get about 70-75% capacity I'll be happy. Also need a HD monitor..

The_KFD_Case on 20 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

The_KFD_Case on 20 Sep '11 said:

DoomGuy84

Good luck to all you pc gamers who need to spend £10,000 to play the game to your high standards!

What a load of tosh. Recommended settings:

GTX 560- £150

quad core processor with motherboard- £100 (if that)

4 gig ram - £25

If your upgrapding, it wont cost you much more than £300 to play BF3 (and any other PC) on recomended settings. So anyone jealous of the PC version of BF3 should pipe down a little. PC aren't for the well off, they are very much affordable.

GTX 560 costs 300$ idiot. More if you live in another country.
A quad core processor and a motherboard: If you want a good processor for BF3, you are going to need the i5 2500k, which is 200$
The motherboard will be a MSI P67, which costs 150-200$. The ram price differs depending on what you want. It can cost 50$ to 100$. And last, but not least, the screen,tower, cpu cooler. When you buy a more powerful cpu and gpu, you are going to need a better tower and cooling, I also assume that most people dont have a 22-24" LED full hd screen. But I am not going to include the prices of these things, as it would just make you look like an idiot even more. So the price for an upgrade consisting of only a CPU, GPU and a motherboard, the price is 700$. PC gaming is everything but cheap.

True, yet that is only one of several possible PC spec configurations that a person could opt for in a gaming PC. In some of those areas you can shave the prices further. Also, the door swings both ways; for the console-only crowd let us not forget the cost of a large screen LCD, plasma, LED, OLED TV, a surround system or high-end surround sound emulating headset, controllers, chargers, battery packs, HDMI cables, hard drive upgrades, motion sensor controls, etc, etc., etc. Console gaming is NOT all that much cheaper than PC gaming - especially when you factor in the much cheaper pricing of PC games. What console gaming does have is a greater "ease-of-use" factor at the cost of fewer user options and inferior technical capabilities.

p0tn00dle on 20 Sep '11 said:

HEY NUMB NUTS $300 of you PISH dollars is Roughly £150 so shut up and sit down.

DoomGuy84

Good luck to all you pc gamers who need to spend £10,000 to play the game to your high standards!

What a load of tosh. Recommended settings:

GTX 560- £150

quad core processor with motherboard- £100 (if that)

4 gig ram - £25

If your upgrapding, it wont cost you much more than £300 to play BF3 (and any other PC) on recomended settings. So anyone jealous of the PC version of BF3 should pipe down a little. PC aren't for the well off, they are very much affordable.

GTX 560 costs 300$ idiot. More if you live in another country.
A quad core processor and a motherboard: If you want a good processor for BF3, you are going to need the i5 2500k, which is 200$
The motherboard will be a MSI P67, which costs 150-200$. The ram price differs depending on what you want. It can cost 50$ to 100$. And last, but not least, the screen,tower, cpu cooler. When you buy a more powerful cpu and gpu, you are going to need a better tower and cooling, I also assume that most people dont have a 22-24" LED full hd screen. But I am not going to include the prices of these things, as it would just make you look like an idiot even more. So the price for an upgrade consisting of only a CPU, GPU and a motherboard, the price is 700$. PC gaming is everything but cheap.

Paul_Boland2 on 20 Sep '11 said:

I can't run it. I have a Pentium 4 3.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM, Windows XP and a Nvidia 6800 graphics card. As a matter of fact I can't play any new games for a long time now. I need a new computer but I can't afford it .

The_KFD_Case on 20 Sep '11 said:

GTX560 for recommended spec, that's a bit harsh!

My thoughts too.

Emoticons Only on 20 Sep '11 said:

humanhand on 20 Sep '11 said:

It's the new ilovenewtech.

The Bossman on 20 Sep '11 said:

I have a 3.30 GHZ AMD Phenom II X4 850 processor, 8GB Ram and a Radeon 6790 graphics card, with 2TB HD, will it run Battlefield 3?

aawells07 on 20 Sep '11 said:

Calling people idiot on here really isn't appreciated.

Agreed its one thing to disagree but that was a little over the line and uncalled for.

spaceman_DOUG on 20 Sep '11 said:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_led79voVZH1qarkuho1_500.gif

AegisK on 20 Sep '11 said:

My PC is slowly dying, so I guess a few upgrades won't go amiss even with the recommended spec covered.

ZeroTime on 21 Sep '11 said:

"Graphical requirements will not be Crysis-like"

"Recommended System Requirements:
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR ATI RADEON 6950"

chancy319 on 21 Sep '11 said:

LMFAO @ all the people that were bragging and making mouth of how they can't wait to get it on PC and how us inferior PS3 and 360 users have to suffer with inferior graphics. Look at them coming over to our side now because they're too poor to afford a graphics card. L-muthaf*cking-A-O.

Ali_ on 21 Sep '11 said:

Hi,

Can anyone help me out, I was wondering if this would run on my Amstrad CPC464?

I haven't upgraded it for a while so I wasn't sure.

Thanks,

I'm sorry to have to tell you, but this doesn't come on cassette. You'll need to upgrade to a CPC6128 to play it. There will, however, be some minimal interruption to your playing experience as you switch between the 25,000 floppy discs the game comes on.

wasted-again on 21 Sep '11 said:

If you spent £700.00 three years ago on a gaming PC(6750/8800gt/2GB/20"LCD) and the same on an XBOX 360+32" Samsung LCD(+all the leads and other stuff), the question is, how much would you need to spend to make the PC play BF3 like they show it running in the PC videos, and how much would it cost to make the 360 run it like they show in the 360 video?

pRM8 on 21 Sep '11 said:

I would have thought that the vast majority of PC gamers would already actually have a PC and would only need an upgrade if necessary.

My GFX falls just below the recommended spec with a HD5870 but was able to play the alpha quite easily. We will see how the beta holds up though but I dont mind playing with slightly lower graphical bells and whistles if it gives me a better and smoother frame rate.