Battlefield 3 PC requirements are as much of a tank as you thought they would be

(Posted by: Eric Rees)

Battlefield 3 is shaping up to be one of the games to beat this fall, promising huge 64-player battles and damn near fully destructible environments for the PC version of their game. Throw in tanks, planes and helicopters and you've got one hardware intensive game on your hands. But today EA has released the minimum and recommended system requirements for your PC and they aren't really that bad:

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• OS: WINDOWS VISTA (SERVICE PACK 2) 32-BIT
  
• PROCESSOR: 2 GHZ DUAL CORE (CORE 2 DUO 2.4 GHZ OR ALTHON X2 2.7 GHZ)
• MEMORY: 2 GB
• HARD DRIVE: 20 GB
• GRAPHICS CARD (AMD): DIRECTX 10.1 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 SERIES, WITH ATI RADEON 3870 OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
• GRAPHICS CARD (NVIDIA): DIRECTX 10.0 COMPATIBLE WITH 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 SERIES WITH NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT OR HIGHER PERFORMANCE)
• SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
• KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
• DVD ROM DRIVE

Catch the recommended list after the break, that is not too bad either considering the scope of this game.

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 560 OR ATI RADEON (6950)
• SOUND CARD: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
• KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
• DVD ROM DRIVE

This is very very good news. I don't have the biggest beast of a PC but with these specs I should be able to run it just fine. You can hear the collective sighs of people around the world as they read this news today. It's certainly welcome for one of the most anticipated games of the year.