I searched and didn't see a thread like this already going. Since the Beta test is only about 5-6 weeks away, I thought it'd be a good time to start speculating about the game and some realistic pc hardware requirements!
I did a little searching and it seems that there are no official requirements out for the game. We all know that official recommended requirements are all lies anyway right? Unless you like to play your games at 1024x768 at 30fps that is I've been around pc gaming long enough to know that it's very hard to trust these. So I always assume things will need to be taken up a notch, or two..
So what I did find was these requirements off a site called bf4central:
Quad core CPU (Intel Core i5 or i7) at 3 Ghz
4 GB memory (8 GB for 64-bit operating systems)
A modern DX11 graphics card with 1 GB of video memory, GeForce 600 series or Radeon 7000 series
Windows 7 64-bit operating system (Windows 8 is supported as well)
20+ GB of free harddrive space
And these from various sites including a site called bf4talk. These are apparently taken from the ubisoft store. Though I followed the link there and there was no such thing listed. Maybe they just took them down:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core CPU
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Video Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Origin has nothing as you can see: https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/b...dition#details
Now I'm pretty sure that when I watched one of the first BF4 gameplay videos, the devs said it was playing on a 7970 and that AMD were their hardware partners. That's all I heard I think..
BF3 and Skyrim were the games that gave me upgradeitis back in 2011/12. I've been very happy with my setup since then. But I'm starting to think I'm going to get a bad case of it again later this year :/
I'm wondering if my 2500K @4.5ghz and single 7970 are going to cut it for this game! I can see all these new destruction features in the game demanding a pc juiced up with some serious hardware steroids! Especially when it comes to full scale MP battles.
What do you guys think are realistic requirements for this game? I'd probably like to play it on at least high settings at 60fps.. Also, what are your general thoughts on the game, think it looks much improved from BF3?
Edit: If anyone has played the BF4 Alpha - Please give us your feedback!!