With Battlefield 3, EA has the ambition to set new standards regarding ingame graphics. Therefore the only logical conclusion is that a powerful PC is needed to play this game smoothly and enjoy is high quality graphics.

Minimum requirements Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz Display Card: DirectX 10/11 Nvidia / AMD ATI card API: DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 Memory: 2 GByte Free Disk Space: 15 GByte Operating System: Windows Vista / Windows 7
Recommended system requirements Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU Display Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia / DirectX 11 AMD ATI, GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 6850 API: DirectX 11 Memory: 4 GByte Free Disk Space: 16 GByte Operating System: Windows Vista / Windows 7