Battlefield 3 will feature the maximalist combined arms battles that made the series popular across single-player, co-operative and multiplayer modes. It will reintroduce several elements absent from the Bad Company games, including fighter jets, the prone position and 64-player battles on PC. To accommodate the lower player count on consoles, the ground area will be limited for Xbox 360 and PS3, though fly space will remain the same.
Battlefield 3 features the return of class-based game play, with four classes: Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon. The abilities of the Frostbite 2 engine will be utilized, with the Engineer's flashlight able to blind other players, and concentrated LMG fire blurring the vision of suppressed players.
Several game modes have been announced: Conquest, Rush, and a new mode, Team Deathmatch.

Battlefield 3 System Requirements

9 Jun 2012 - Specs reviewed

Minimum Requirements

OS: Win Vista 32
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 or NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB
System Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 20 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 10 Compatible Graphics Card

Recommended Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz / AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6950 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
System Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 20 GB Hard drive space

PC System Analysis For Battlefield 3 Requirements

Battlefield 3 requires at least a Radeon HD 6950 or GeForce GTX 560 to meet recommended requirements running on high graphics setting, with 1080p resolution. This hardware should achieve 60FPS. System memory required for Battlefield 3 is 4 GB performance memory. Recommended needs around a 10 year old PC to run.

FPS System Benchmark

200+ FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is Battlefield 3 for PC? Battlefield 3 is excellently optimized

9.3

Where does Battlefield 3 rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: 1st Person, Online, Shooter, Social, War

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Battlefield 3 System Requirements

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Minimum Requirements

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AMD CPU

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Pentium Dual Core E2180 2.0GHz

Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+

GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB

Radeon HD 4650

512 MB

2 GB

Win Vista 32

DX 10

20 GB

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Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz

Athlon II X3 405e

GeForce GTS 250

Radeon HD 4770 512MB

512 MB

4 GB

Win 7 64

DX 10

20 GB

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Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz

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Radeon HD 6950

1 GB

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Win 7 64

DX 11

20 GB

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Battlefield 3 PC Release Date:

28 Oct 2011

Alternative Game Tags: bf3, battlefield 2 sequel, battlefield3, bf1943, bf 3, battlefield iii

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