Update: GameStop Outs Fake Battlefield 3 PC System Requirements

by Mike Bendel on July 8, 2011 @ 7:21 am

Update: DICE rendering architect Johan Andersson says these aren’t the real deal in a post over at Beyond3D. Apparently GS lifted them from a BF fansite.

Is your rig up to snuff for what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest titles to grace PC this year? While we have yet to receive official word from DICE, a GameStop listing has outed the system requirements for Battlefield 3.  Here’s the skinny:

Minimum
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: 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

Recommended
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: 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 Radeon HD 6850

About in line with what we expected. Note the Windows Vista/7 requirement, as DICE did say it was leaving DX9 behind with the release of BF3.

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Comments
MenaceInc says:

Any DX10 card? Including a 4250? It's hardly very descriptive requirements. :\

July 8, 2011, 2:29 pm
El Diablo says:

Why is the digital version so much smaller?

July 8, 2011, 2:45 pm
x3sphere says:

DICE just called fake on these. GameStop lifted them from a fansite apparently

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1557278&postcount=273
July 8, 2011, 2:47 pm
MenaceInc says:

Thought so. Way too ambiguous.

July 8, 2011, 3:29 pm
Ecko says:

I did not believe these specs for a second. They seemed wayyy too low, especially considering that the OFFICIAL ARMA 3 minimum specs are

CPU: Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Phenom X4 or faster

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5770, shader Model 3 and 896 MB VRAM, or faster

RAM: 2 GB

HDD: 15 GB free space

DirectX: 10

So my guess is that BF3 minimum req's are more along those lines, perhaps slightly less demanding since I imagine Dice and EA are more concerned about drawing a larger audience.
July 12, 2011, 2:08 am
Seth says:

I too wanna know this...

July 12, 2011, 4:04 am
MenaceInc says:

I wouldn't say they were too low, just too vague. My issue with them was that there was no performance index given for the GPU, it just said "any DX10 card"

July 12, 2011, 10:14 am
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