Battlefield 3 requirements released

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Kuga

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Ive always been a fan of the BF series and unfortunately I dont game much anymore so it would be a huge waste to spend 10k on a rig and not use it.

So, I want to play BF3 but my system is a little outdated. Its pretty much handled everything up until now but I want to enjoy BF3 when its released so im looking for a quick win.

I have:
Q6600
8800GTS 320MB
3Gigs DDR2
etc

It goes without saying that my gfx card is the biggest let down. Will grabbing a 2nd hand 285GTX or similar help a whole lot or is there some sort of bottleneck? SHould I get an extra stick of RAM or brand new paired 4gigs? WIll theses be the 2 quickest wins for me to get some decent performance?
 
This game is going to cost me a lot of money I can just see it :(
 
RandomGRK said:
Ive always been a fan of the BF series and unfortunately I dont game much anymore so it would be a huge waste to spend 10k on a rig and not use it.

So, I want to play BF3 but my system is a little outdated. Its pretty much handled everything up until now but I want to enjoy BF3 when its released so im looking for a quick win.

I have:
Q6600
8800GTS 320MB
3Gigs DDR2
etc

It goes without saying that my gfx card is the biggest let down. Will grabbing a 2nd hand 285GTX or similar help a whole lot or is there some sort of bottleneck? SHould I get an extra stick of RAM or brand new paired 4gigs? WIll theses be the 2 quickest wins for me to get some decent performance?
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Get a 6870, everything should be fine but your vga card is going to take a beating, even a 6850 will do. Ram and cpu will be fine i highly doubt bf 3 will use 4gb but with memory being so cheap just go grab 2 4gb sticks for 500 bucks or something or leave it and see.
 
They updated the recommended specs.
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: WINDOWS 7 64-BIT
PROCESSOR: QUAD-CORE CPU
MEMORY: 4 GB
HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
GRAPHICS CARD: DIRECTX 11 COMPATIBLE WITH 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 OR ATI RADEON 6950)
SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
DVD ROM DRIVE

FYI, recommended Nvidia card has been updated to GTX 570.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/htm...battlefield_3_

Nvidia advises GTX 570 for high @ 1920x1080

http://stagegeforce.geforce.com/Game...-3/GPUAnalyzer

GTX 560 = high quality 1680*1050

GTX 570 = high quality 1920*1080

GTX 580 = ultra quality 1980*1080
 
I just upgraded my foundation to an i7 2600k and 8GB RAm on an ASUS ROG mobo. Graphics card is a 5770. Will see how the system handles BF3 before I think of upgrading the GFX.
 
RandomGRK said:
Ive always been a fan of the BF series and unfortunately I dont game much anymore so it would be a huge waste to spend 10k on a rig and not use it.

So, I want to play BF3 but my system is a little outdated. Its pretty much handled everything up until now but I want to enjoy BF3 when its released so im looking for a quick win.

I have:
Q6600
8800GTS 320MB
3Gigs DDR2
etc
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i've got an almost identical system
Q6600
5870 - my 8800 died a few months back :}
6Gigs RAM

hope its enough to take me to at least high
 
Eish I'm thinking low-medium settings for me. Running an Athlon II X4 at 2.9Ghz and a 5770. Will probably upgrade at the end of this year.
 
this is my specs not sure what i am going to get out of this to be very honest

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz (4 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 12288MB RAM
Hard Drive: 1 TB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1.2gig 320bit
 
Intel I5 750 Processor
4Gig OCZ memory
Radeon 4870x2 Video card
1 Tb hard drive

will these specs of my pc work for BF3
 
beta wont have all settings , that full game will have :(

but meh think will run ultra on my hd 6870 hawks oced at full hd.
 
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