Is Your PC Ready For Battlefield 3?

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Want to know if your video card can handle Battlefield 3? Head on over to GeForce.com and check out the GPU Analyzer to see if your system meets the recommended specifications.

The GPU analyzer (beta) detects your graphics hardware and compares it to the developer’s recommended GPU specification for Battlefield 3. It’s a quick and easy way to see if your graphics hardware will provide you an optimal experience in Battlefield 3.
 
Ah marketing: "Your graphics card does not meet the RECOMMENDED requirement for Battlefield 3". Then a list of all the 500 series cards and their price... I have a GTX275. I know it's old, but I'm pretty sure it's a LOT better than the minimum GTX 4/5/6000.
 
I am sooo stoked for this game. I still play BF2:SF!

"Your PC's NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb does not meet the game's recommended requirements"
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com !

I'll still try to play it anyway. Obviously, I can't even remotely close to max it out, but I can still play somehow I'm sure ;)
 
I'm actually surprised it passed that AMD hardware in the screenshots. I thought nvidia would call anything that AMD has 'insufficient"
 
Ah marketing: "Your graphics card does not meet the RECOMMENDED requirement for Battlefield 3". Then a list of all the 500 series cards and their price... I have a GTX275. I know it's old, but I'm pretty sure it's a LOT better than the minimum GTX 4/5/6000.


All marketing, but still good to be aware of what the GPU companies are saying.
 
I failed. I bet my X2 could do it, but not at the settings I would like. Maybe by the time BF4 comes out, the wife will let me upgrade. :D
 
Rofl, it fails the HD4870X2 at recommended settings. Absolutely retarded. It's becoming increasingly evident there will be quite a substantial geforce-bias in this game.
 
Your PC's Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) does not meet the game's recommended requirements.

Like I never thought it would!
 
im willing to bet its going to fail any non DX11 card for the recommended settings so...
 
Your PC's ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series does not meet the game's recommended requirements.

The recommended GPU for Battlefield 3 is a GeForce GTX 560 or higher. Check below to see some upgrade options. To see other system requirements for Battlefield 3, please click here.

So, my 5870 is weak sauce now? I haven't had the upgrade bug in quite a while, not that this is going to give it to me or anything-- but I felt the 5870 was still a pretty decent card, no?
 
It is, the checker is just biased towards nvidia. It will fail radeon cards twice as powerful as an acceptable geforce (in an attempt to get you to switch to nvidia hardware :p)
 
I have a Radeon 5870 and it's telling me I "didn't pass" and I ought to replace my 5870 with a GeForce 560.

How about no, thanks, I'll stick with my superior graphics card.

Useless scam marketing "utility".
 
This would actually be a decent tool if it didn't just look at the recommended hardware. I mean, what different is this than just looking at the system requirements and think to yourself "oh, my 460gtx probably isn't going to play this at higher settings".
 
My AMD 5870 failed; I call bull. It's never even stressed in BC2. I'm more worried about my cpu (Q9550/3.2 mhz)
 
This would actually be a decent tool if it didn't just look at the recommended hardware. I mean, what different is this than just looking at the system requirements and think to yourself "oh, my 460gtx probably isn't going to play this at higher settings".

This... I never got the point of these "system checker" tools. People really can't just read the requirements themselves?
 
My 6870 gave me this:
Your PC's AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series does not meet the game's recommended requirements.

The recommended GPU for Battlefield 3 is a GeForce GTX 560 or higher. Check below to see some upgrade options. To see other system requirements for Battlefield 3, please click here.


Guess I better go change to a 560
 
So apparently I was quite wrong when I said it didn't have the nvidia bias I thought it would.

Hey nvidia, go rebrand another card for three generations or pay people to put out a patch that pushes tesselation OVER 9000 just to validate your overpriced hardware
 
Clearly a marketing setup so they can tell you your card blows, all to get you to buy their new line of cards.

Really, a $250+ video card is the recommendation? I find that to be grossly overexaggerated, especially if a person is not going to be running at FULL HD resolutions like they assume.....

My GTX460 better be good enough to run at above medium settings, or else the game better look almost real because the gtx460 can run almost anything right now at high settings (with the res i tried, non-1080p)

I mean, a $150-200 video card is being touted as a failure..... what?! So not accurate, more of a marketing ploy to sell more nvidia product
 
So it's basically going to tell us that we all have failed, because we don't own a 560 or higher? Seems pointless.
 
If you want 60fps and max detail, be prepared to need two GTX560s for 1080p, at least. At 1680x1050 you might get away with a single GTX580. If you're using a single GTX460, you'll be settling for no HBAO, reduced AA and maybe one or two details cut to medium if you want 60fps. Or of course, you could max it out and settle for 30fps.
 
Your PC's GTX 465 SLI meets the game's recommended requirements. I imagine a GTX 460 SLI would probably be the same, looks like they may want SLI on the higherend 400 series.
 
Leave it to the Battlefield series to start another hardware controversy. I remember all of the hubbub about getting 2GB of RAM when Battlefield 2 came out.
 
There are plenty of more demanding games out there, just none are as popular as the battlefield series :p
 
^ haha.

wonder what kind of fps sli gtx 460 would get at 2560x1600 on medium settings. would hate to have to buy new flagship cards with amd/nvidia die shrinks right around the corner.
 
Depends how well medium scales with high. At max settings they'd probably only get an average of about 40fps and a minimum about 30 (based on the alpha).
 
Grrr!!!! No I'm not ready for it in the sense that I want to be. I will be sticking with my 5850 until the new ATI or Nvidia cards come out. Although I am really contemplating at least getting a 6950 to hold me over... Not sure.
 
Dice stated (2) GTX 580's are recommended for maximum settings...which I obtained a few months ago...each with 3 GB of memory. :D Beta starts tomorrow so we have an entire month before launch to read about performance and hardware.
 
Dice stated (2) GTX 580's are recommended for maximum settings...which I obtained a few months ago...each with 3 GB of memory. :D Beta starts tomorrow so we have an entire month before launch to read about performance and hardware.

But is that multi-monitor or 3D or must maxed and at what resolution.

My prediction is 45-50 fps with GTX580 at 1920 x 1080 with anti-aliasing at best.
 
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