EA and Dice have released minimum and recommended system requirements list for upcoming Battlefield 4 title and there are quite a few interesting details, including possible support for DirectX 11.1 as well as a rather reasonable minimum system requirements that are not that much different from the Battlefield 3.

While there is no support for Windows XP, Battlefield 4 does not apparently take advantage of 64-bit systems and will feature 32-bit executables, despite the fact that it can take advantage of over 4GB of system memory and over 3GB of video-memory. The minimum system requirements include Windows Vista 32-bit with Service Pack 2 and KB971512 update, AMD's Athlon X2 2.8GHz CPU or Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB of RAM, and 2009-class DirectX 10 GPU.

The recommended system requirements list is a bit more interesting as EA/DICE prefers Windows 8 64-bit over Windows 7 which should suggest that it might have something to do with support for DirectX 11.1 which Widnows 7 lacks. The rest of the list includes any six-core AMD CPU or any Intel quad-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and at least Radeon HD 7870 or GTX 660 graphics card with at least 3GB of video memory. Unfortunately, there is no HD 7870 graphics cards with 3GB of video memory, so we guess that you would rather need something a bit more in the high-end range.

It also needs up to 30GB of HDD space in both minimum and recommended list. It appears that the EA/DICE Battlefield 4 might be the game that will push a lot of gamers to Windows 8, or at least if the eye-candy ends up to be much better than on the Windows 7. We still do not know how well did EA/DICE used the DirectX 11.1 but we are sure that AMD will push it as much as possible.



Source: Examiner.com, via Techpowerup.com.