So BF3... what are the likely min specs Options

[Aki]

exactly that... anyone got a clue what the likely min specs are and when the actual likely release date is? I get the feeling my 2.4Ghz dual core with 2GB ram an GeForce 9600GT might not cut the mustard... and I'd hate for us to get a brand spanking new clan happy multiplayer and not be able to join in. :S

[=R6= Raile]

my advice is to wait and see if it sucks hard before buying/upgrading a pc around it......... 0.o

[MonkeyFiend]

my advice is to wait and see if it sucks hard before buying/upgrading a pc around it......... 0.o

My PC should cope with it. I have a rather organised PC building cycle of upgrading PC components (CPU/Mobo/Mem) one year then upgrading GFX the next year and so on (possibly with a year or two gap if technology or game requirements haven't moved on).

That being said although I have a windows 7 partition, I still use XP as my main OS simply because I know XP in and out and have no reason to change at the moment. It's jsut a bit annoying that they force you to use 7 even though the main reasons for 7 would be directX 11 and additional memory support - memory is valid, but there's been suggestions that the miniumum would be 2gb anyway (well within XP's capabilities) and the whole point behind DirectX is that it should scale.

Yes you might get some super doopa particle physics with DX11 thats not in DX9 but for lower specced machines, there would be an option to turn this off anyway, in which case you're back to the same level as DX9 again.

I'm coming up to the time where I'll be buying an SSD in the next few months and that will probably have 7 on it, but as Raile says I wouldn't upgrade a computer until knowing if BF3 is going to suck in the way BC2 did