Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2 PC System Requirements Revealed

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  Quad core! Boooooooo! : jodiuh
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    yah really wonder how my E8500 will do with it... might end up upgrading for this : Shadowdane
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      I bet an E8500 will handle it without breaking a sweat. : CyCo_PL
      • My E8400 @ 4.0Ghz w/ a GTX 260 216 runs like a gimped dog. Come to me Q9550! : jodiuh
    • I'm from the future! It will do terrible. : jodiuh
• Yeah I will need to upgrade for this. :( : deject

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  I am in the same boat. Good to know my older stuff cuts it. : sheepraper
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    same. hey sheep, did you ever find your view of this shot from last night? http://www.easyscreens.info/i... : yacoub35
    • It is just a 1680x1050 black box. :( : sheepraper
• Typically clueless console idiots. Rest of us knows that as long as you don't go above 1920x1200 a decent... : levente@speakeasy.net
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  Good to see the computer I build 2 years ago doesn't meet these (just the quad core) : SlingBlaze
  • Sounds like you built a crappy system. Sorry man. Considering how cheap PC upgrades are, though, you'll... : wytefang
• It doesnt when games are built for consoles and ported to the pc. : Tommy Toolbag
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  That's pretty amazing, especially considering the GTX 260 wasn't even released until 2009 ;) : carbontree
  • I believe vanilla 260's were released in mid-2008. : at0micgarden
  • LOL i was going to say the same thing! : fausto412
  • Yea I have changed my 8800 GTX with 768 megs of RAM out for a 4890 since then. But everything else is ra... : Jimbo Ro
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  My PC doesn't have any of that crap and I'm not upgrading :-/ Oh well doesn't mean I'd have to max the g... : phinn
  • Great news on the dedicated servers! Operation Flashpoint DR was another game that decided to omit dedica... : szimm
• It's true, I built my PC in Nov 07, with a 2nd hand 8800GTX, and I think this is only the 3rd game so far... : terylene
• Maybe those reqs are for 1920x1200 at max detail settings? In that case they seem fine to me.... but who... : Cubictoast
• you can thank engines designed to run on consoles for that : Mansmells
• GTX 260 ftw. Best card on the market for value and performance. : pepelouis
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  I have not kept up to speed on the video cards. Do I need to upgrade my Geforce 8800 GT (I have room for... : TheArtMan
  • It won't hurt, i went from an 8800gt sc to a gtx275 and it was a big jump, even on my old 45nm Core2duo @... : supaslasha
  • ive got dual 8800gt's and havnt had a problem with any game so far. Id recommend getting a card with more... : technotica
  • 260gtx is roughly 1.5x the performance of a single 8800GTS : hyperwired

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• nvidia have superior drivers and support. : hyperwired

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  Good luck with that. Chances are that Fermi will be less powerful than AMD's 5800 series. : Link.
  • your ass seems to know a lot about this stuff, but please, share your insights somewhere else. There a... : anal justice
  • Highly unlikely, why would they release something slower? Either it will be the same performance wise or ... : abjectblitz
  • The 5800 series isn't that much faster than the GTX 295. I would be surprised if Fermi was slower. : Serpico74
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  Yes, the poor Nvidia die-hards are too stuck in their ways to realize that ATI is the way to go at the mo... : szimm
  • Hey, don't jump on him when even his nick is "pointless" - nomen est omen... :) : levente@speakeasy.net
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    if only 5870's were available to buy.... : johnny rotten
    • @johnny: The 5870's are not hard to get - it's the 5850's that are always sold out, due to production sh... : szimm
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    Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's not just loyalty, I'm just afraid of going with ATI. I always hear o... : CaptainSurly
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      I've owned four Nvidia cards and three ATI cards. There is not, and has never been, a quality difference.... : szimm
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        They may be aiming for the high end market there but they still will make it perform for us. I don't see ... : supaslasha
        • It's a simple fact that you have to make trade-offs in order to be flexible. If Nvidia starts pursuing th... : szimm
  • Looking at simple price/performance isn't always the best way. If you want to prevent a company from havi... : Mr. Goodwrench
• ROFLMAO - Fermi's earliest arrival date is now about 2 MOTNHS after this game came out. : levente@speakeasy.net
• WTF.. Fermi isn't even meant for gaming..... : ShadowRam

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• That would be nice, especially if it could be released before the game comes out. : Jiven
• Well in the case of Bad Company 2 there will be a demo to test your machines ability.. As for BF 1943... : sirtesticles
• I think that's why they list a processor model along with the clock speed. "2.0GHz CPU" isn't a good ind... : deject
• It's not that difficult to look at minimum and maximum specs to decide whether you can play it. It's mor... : socom8271
• One thing I think game makers should be including is what resolution they're running at for each level of... : NeoChaosX
• Agreed : Longgshot
• Capcom has done this with Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5 and a few others. It's a great idea. : Alice O'Connor
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  From my experience the minimum requirements are usually set a notch higher than necessary, they are quite... : Lukiopimp
  • Actually something like this built into Steam or GFWL would be very helpful, because buying with DD means... : Lukiopimp
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    http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/ Like this? : The Future
    • Aw you beat me to it. : SlingBlaze
    • Woot ! :) Thx! Would still be even better if a function like this were included into Steam / GFWL : Lukiopimp
• You mean big games like this need demos. : Cliffzorz

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• your dual will perform better than quads if all 4 procs aren't in use. but if this thing does multi-proce... : festivalman
• I guess the video games you make have system requirements that make more sense. What? You don't make ga... : haysoos
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  really? your dual 2.53Ghz is more processing power in aggregate than.. what Quad exactly? as for the g... : Toraz Chryx
  • Take it easy on the kid will ya'? Jeesh. Recommended specs are typically the lowest specs required to g... : ezanga
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    If the game doesnt suppport multi threading then yeah, a dual core will run as good or better depending o... : thewindcriesmary
    • ... then doesn't "quad core" on the recommended specs fairly strongly infer that the game IS multithreade... : Toraz Chryx
• Well most games aren't optimized for quad cores so they don't end up making full use of four separate cor... : 1Mystic-G
• It's simple math - even a 2 GHz quadcore will be way faster than your 2.5 GHz dual core, if the applicati... : szimm
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  "Skillmore" needs to be a little bit 'skilled more" - just WTF "dual 2.53 performs better than some quad... : levente@speakeasy.net
  • "recommend quad-cores but wouldn't support multi-cores in their code... " ya that kinda blew my mind w... : technotica
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  Duals are more reliable than quads. Also I meant a 9800 won't do for the recomended specs. Stop trying so... : Skillmore
  • "Duals are more reliable than quads" With a statement like that who needs to "try" to sound superior. : FuryVII
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    In what way are duals more reliable than quads? And no, a 9800GTX is roughly equivalent in performance... : Toraz Chryx
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      Say you are going away on vacation and need a cpu to feed your cats. The dual core will remember to do th... : Mansmells
      • Haha, nice one. Doesn't matter since I don't have a cat though. :D : szimm
  • You really have no clue do you? : Mr. Goodwrench
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    but with a quad you have extra procs incase one goes bad so it evens out : malloc
    • It doesn't really even out, if one core fails on a multi-core CPU, you'll probably see all sorts of hangs... : at0micgarden
    • Dual cores and quad cores on the market today don't have built-in redundancy. If one core blows, the whol... : szimm
  • Sorry, but dual cores are not more reliable than quadcores. They have the same issues with older games th... : szimm
  • Apparently it says GTX260 for recommended specs... Id assume you could run it with a 9800, the gtx260 ... : technotica
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    Not sure about more reliable but they do o/c more efficiently than quads. : technotica
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      For C2D vs C2Q yes, for i5/i7 not so much. The i's are monsters in the sack,,, err in the overclock. : supaslasha
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        That's what I was referring to, the C2D/C2Q. I haven't gotten around to getting an i7 yet . I figure my n... : technotica
        • No, they're not "comparable" to Q6600's... Because... https://photos-1.dropbox.com/i/o/jlWNzrp02brW... : Toraz Chryx
• proof: people on the internet are misinformed. : magicfucker
• no a 9800 wont do it... get a GTX260 or bust. : technotica

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• I hope so :( : atom519
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  That's my question as well. I have a high end dual core processor, so I'm sure it will do fine. But I h... : DeathStrikeVirus
  • You dont get more RAM by having two cards if thats what your asking. (at least to my knowledge its never ... : technotica

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  I'm guessing installer requirements? If you have a 4gb installer and it copies over 4 gb of content then ... : PointlesS76
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    Surely once it has installed it should delete the installer and end up with the same size as a dvd versio... : abjectblitz
    • It's pretty common to list total working space required, otherwise you get customers complaining that the... : danielbrauer
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      "Surely once it has installed it should delete the installer and end up with the same size as a dvd versi... : Jimbo Ro
      • That is what I thought, thanks for clarifying. As for the guys ranting up there ^ ^ wtf... : abjectblitz
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  EA has never been very bright with BF installation/patching. I remember at a certain point one specific B... : zehh
  • I got bit with that exact problem and it sucked. I can't even remember what I did to get around it. : TickHeadDog
• Obviously the compressed installer package you have to download, what else... : levente@speakeasy.net
• Music, sound, etc. most likely is the bulk, but 6gb worth tho...good question. : pepelouis

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• If there is mod support, BF43 will most certainly not crest in popularity anytime soon. : pepelouis

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• "Recommended Hardware" has never meant "Run at the maximum possible settings." : zerog83

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• It did. It was insane. I remember joining games and watching the level load in about 30 seconds with 2g... : 69gooch69