Battlefield 4 PC system requirements revealed
Battlefield 4 may be pretty, but it has surprisingly lax min-spec requirements for PC players. Looks like supporting both current and next-gen consoles resulted in an engine that can support a pretty wide range of PC tech.
Battlefield 4 may be pretty, but it has surprisingly lax min-spec requirements for PC players. Looks like supporting both current and next-gen consoles resulted in an engine that can support a pretty wide range of PC tech.
Oddly, DICE recommends Windows 8 for their game. Check out the full list after the break.
Minimum Requirements:
- OS: Windows Vista SP2 32-bit
- CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
- RAM: 4GB
- GPU: AMD Radeon HD 3870 or Nvidia Geforce 8800GT with 512MB of memory
- HDD: 30GB
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 8 64-bit
- CPU: AMD six-core or Intel quad-core
- RAM: 8GB
- GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 with 3GB of memory
(via Polygon)
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Battlefield 4 may be pretty, but it has surprisingly lax min-spec requirements for PC players. Looks like supporting both current and next-gen consoles resulted in an engine that can support a pretty wide range of PC tech.-
Windows 8 requirement for the recommended specs is due to dx11.1 features that weren't added to win7
http://www.bf4blog.com/battlefield-4-on-windows-8-will-have-better-cpu-optimization/-
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I've been using Win 8.1 on my laptop for some time now and as soon as I get get a subsidised copy of Win8 through work I'll be getting it. I've been able to configure it so it doesn't feel like you're using a tablet on a PC with no touchscreen. And it performs significantly better than Windows 7.
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Win8 has a lot of improvements over 7.
The big drawback I would say is trying to get used to some of the interface elements. Some are a tad obtrusive or unobvious.
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It's not odd they recommend Windows 8. The latest games run the best on Microsoft Windows 8, and I know because I switch back and forth between it and Windows 7 x64 and test constantly.
Windows 8.1 is fantastic, and placing the current desktop background in the Modern UI actually works really well. Now all they need to do is make it so we can optionally run Windows 8 apps in Windowed mode and not fullscreen.-
Agree. You can sort of get the experience you are after with Windows 8 apps if you have multiple monitors and the snapping functionality.
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look into modernmix... works (mostly) great for running metro apps in a window. well enough to be worth the 5 bucks, for sure....
http://www.stardock.com/modernmix/-
Link didn't work for me; here's the corrected one.
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
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When the hell did my 2GB 7850 become obsolete? :(
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in the future because its still above minmum spec.
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my graphics card can run this but not rogue legacy! something is wrong with this world
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Hell yeah! No modern games for me any more! Indie games by force for life!
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RIP Smellsy, murdered by his 8800GT upon trying to run BF4 at min-spec. The videocard melted down minutes later.
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Not as much as you'd think. I find gamepad dudes are more than able to hold their own in a PC match.
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Just by pure statistics, you've likely played against (and been outscored by) a dude playing BF3 with a controller.
There's no question that the mouse provides more points of input and thus is more accurate, but that doesn't mean that every person using a M+KB is utilizing their precision in the best way possible. An analog stick provides plenty precision with which to waste dudes. I feel like a factor often overlooked regarding console gamers VS. the PC crowd is actually framerate and IQ. People make way too much about the disparity in control interfaces. If you're good at a game, you're good at a game.
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I feel I could hold my own in a random pub server with a gamepad. I'm not saying I'd be top but it's not THAT much of a disadvantage - if you play tactically most kills are because you get the jump on someone anyway and then assuming you don't have broken thumbs there's no reason you can't shoot em dead quick enough to negate the advantage of a mouse.
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I actually played a good few rounds of Crysis 3 with an Xbox controller when it came out just because I'd had it set up that way for single player. I won or came close to the top of every single match. I wouldn't recommend it for top level competitive play, but if you're decent with a pad I'd say you can do just fine.
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I'd happily wager any amount you'd like when pitting a middling mouse and keyboarder against a gamepad player, all other system devices equal. See gamepad player >>> get behind him >>> stay behind him forever >>> never die once.
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