A tweet from Gustav Halling on May 26 has just caught our attention and for good reason. Halling states that as long as you have a DX10 or DX11 capable video card and can play Bad Company 2 already, then you're probably capable of playing Battlefield 3. On what setting? That wasn't revealed, but hey, you can play Battlefield 3!
A reminder of what the Bad Company 2 requirements are:
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT/ATI X1900)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Any Quadcore Processor
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
With the information we've now just received about Battlefield 3. We can make a prediction of what the minimum requirements for Battlefield 3 may be!
Possible BF3 Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT/ATI HD4000)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
The actual specs for Battlefield 3 have not been released, so these are NOT the official specs. These are estimates based off of what we know so far about Battlefield 3. We may here more about BF3's specs at E3 in a few days.