Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2 system specs revealed

by David Hinkle on Dec 2nd 2009 8:00PM

Ten-hut, soldiers! During wartime, the government is granted special powers and as such the Army is going to need to commandeer your personal computers. Before we send our best and brightest out into battle, we'll need to train them in advanced maneuvers via upcoming PC games Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Before you start packing up your 'puters, know the government has issued its guidelines for computer operations (via Shacknews). Report past the break to see if your computer meets these stringent requirements.
Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications for Bad Company 2 & Battlefield 1943:

Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
Graphics memory: 256MB
OS: Windows XP
15GB of HDD space for digital version, 10GB of HDD space for disc version (BFBC2)
10GB of HDD space for digital version, 4GB of HDD space for disc version (BF1943)

Recommended Frostbite PC Specifications for Bad Company 2 & Battlefield 1943:

Processor: Quadcore
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
Graphics memory: 512MB
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
15GB of HDD space for digital version, 10GB of HDD space for disc version (BFBC2)
10GB of HDD space for digital version, 4GB of HDD space for disc version (BF1943)

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Tags: battlefield, battlefield-1943, battlefield-bad-company-2, Battlefield-XBLA, dice, ea, Electronic-Arts, frostbyte, Microsoft, system-requirements, windows, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (86)

Will my shiny new Blue gene/Q run this?

Hey, my netbook meets the RAM and OS requirements! Woot!

me and my friend like to play this game where we bet on which posts you don't comment on.

unfortunately both us have made VERY little money.

Why do you care how often he posts?

seriously, get over it, so the man posts alot, why does it bother you?

To be honest i'm kind of worried

If you read and comment on a video game blog....more than you play video games..

What's the point?

lol, now im getting downvoted because im pointing out people obsessions with another guys obsession.

He's been here since early 2008. He had another account before this one it seems. I'll keep this easy and just quote myself:

"Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous that a guy has to defend himself for liking or frequenting a site?

Hell, I've worked with people worse than him. I've worked with shift leaders who, in the middle of the night, will sit around playing on myspace on their phone instead of cleaning or working.

I'm probably on more than he is, as are a lot of people, I just don't comment on every other article. I don't see why he should be getting downvoted for being a fan of joystiq. Do you also hate people who spend a lot of times playing games rather than conforming to your expectations of a Saturday evening?"

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween-youre-banned-from-xbox-live/comments/22734809/

Now, can we all move past this shitty argument about who posts more/who has the biggest e-peen?

@sonicspike41
No way, bro. We must continue to argue on the internet. It's the only way to live correctly.

Yeah, I'm going to cry myself to sleep now. Thanks a lot.

Sonic Spike, im sure that Darth will reserve you a seat on the deathstar for your admirable defence of his cause
Oh and I dare Darth to give up joystiq for Lent.
40 days without joystiq Darth... If you can do it then you have proven us all wrong
(although I guess we won't know if he made another account... oh wait, actually we will, he'll be the guy who has like 700 posts in 2 days)
:)

The only reason I am concerned is because instead of reading comments to see other peoples opinions, I see your opinions... all the time. Which really isn't that big of a deal, I just like variety. But I'm sure that if you changed your avatar to some cleavage instead of some blue thing you would have more friends.

@Brodo
Unfortunately, I fail to see the humor in this. You're telling a frequent user on a video game blog to leave because you don't like his presence? Who the fuck do you think you are? If it pisses you off so much, then don't come to the site and comment about how obsessed other people are if that's what you're going to talk about. We come to the site to make jokes of celebrities and talk about the articles we read. It's funny how you say he's obsessed with the site yet you're obsessing over his obsession. Just how empty is your life that taking shots at others is the only way to cope? (That I'd like to know.) I bet you couldn't stay away from this site for 30 days less you go insane.
Is making fun of Darth the new fad on Joystiq? Listen, if you guys can't stand someone so much, no one's forcing you to stay here.

I'm gonna play a Darth drinking game. Every post = 1 shot.

How drunk do you want to get?

@ Asmeron

Wow dude... calm down
It was just a suggestion / joke, and I'm actually kinda serious that if he could not go on joystiq for 40 days, then no one could bug him anymore.

"Just how empty is your life that taking shots at others is the only way to cope? (That I'd like to know.) I bet you couldn't stay away from this site for 30 days less you go insane."

Looks like your taking shots at me.. how empty is your life? Practice what you preach

# Processor: Quadcore --- got a dual core, but it is OC'd to 4ghz, im good
# Main memory: 2GB
# Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
# Graphics memory: 512MB
# OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
# 15GB of HDD space for digital version, 10GB of HDD space for disc version (BFBC2)

everything else is a joke.

# Processor: Quadcore --- got a quad core, OC'd to 3.2Ghz
# Main memory: 4GB
# Graphics card: ATi 4850 1GB
# Graphics memory: 1GB
# OS: Windows 7
# 100GB Free

No, mine's bigger :P

Why does Joystiq still use that pic? It's not even BC2...

Awesome. I think I'll get the disc version then.

T6400 @ 2.0GHz
3GB RAM
Nvidia 9600GS 512mb
windows 7

hmmm, i'm guessing thats "medium settings" with a few things on low... At least i can play it :D.. (Though i really need to buy a desktop instead of a laptop if i want to get back into PC gaming)

also, i wouldn't go calling those requirements stringent.

min requirements at least are on the very low side.

The minimum ones are surprisingly low compared to the recommended. I wonder if the recommended are for 1280x1024 with all settings on mid-high/high.

Also, I know a few people who still have early XP machines (we're talking back when PCIe wasn't included by default). Would be nice if more games included lower minimum specs. I mean like making the minimum GeForce 7600GS or 6600, just because. The game would probably look like ass, but it would still be playable.

while i agree it would be nice for low end pc's to get some love.

i think it might be a little unfair for developers to be worrying about developing for tech thats borderline with the original X-box while developing for newer consoles and mid-range / high end PCs.

Yeah. It just kinda sucks how every 12-18 months a new set of video cards come out, and after 3 years your video card might be worthless.

But, I guess that's why we have consoles. Now if only more console games would let you use a mouse/keyboard (as much as I love dual shock, games like Command & Conquer just don't work as well).

my video cards are at the 1 year point or a little older.

4870s, but i don't see them becoming "obsolete" next year, the only game i have trouble running is the obvious devil that is crysis.

The 8800GTX launched in 2006, and 3 years later it can still run pretty much everything on mid-high settings. Sure, new cards keep coming out, but they aren't making the old ones obsolete. Most games are developed to be cross platform between the PC, 360, and PS3 and because of that they tend to not be developed for the highest end PC hardware. The idea of needing to replace your graphics card every year is ridiculously exaggerated.

Minimum settings means you can get into a game and it won't crash straight away.

Recommended settings is what you need for it to be just beyond barely playable.

I'm not saying every year. That would just be absurd. Every 3 years is much more likely. Also, yes the 8800GTX did release in November 2006, and already many games list it as the minimum requirement.

While it is probably pretty cheap (I got a 9800 GTX+ for $130 back in April), it would still be nice if they could include support for a few older cards. At the least the 7800 series.

But like I said, that's why we also have consoles.

Processor: Core i7 Quad @ 3.3Ghz
Video Card: GTX 260
Ram: Corsair XMS 6 Gigs
Os: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
HDD: 1 TB Segate/250 GB WD

I won't have any problems running this.

only 3.3ghz?!

weakling

I need a better HSF combo :/.

i7 860
12gb ram
GTX 280

Leave you with those words

i'm overclocking a e8400, at 4ghz on air.

i love this thing soo much

@Ashkental

Nice man, nice. :P

2x 4870 > gtx 280 imo

or at least on par.

and more memory is useless if you aren't even capping out on 4gb

I'll push my i7 to 4ghz once I get a not so sucky HSF setup.

My PC is so epic I have to feed it newborn babies.

But in return, it uses the energy output of the babies to power the world.

Just pray to god I never get a BSOD.

I don't even overclock my i7 920, its a crime I know. I need to learn how to overclock, first need to replace the stock heatsink.

4ghz on air? It must be great living in the north pole.

Canada =P

I live in the south of england and have an E8400 @ 4GHz, doesn't get above 55 on load, which is still about 10 degrees below the safe limit.
If anyone wants my specs you can see them here.
http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/members/yamikotai/

i have a dual core e5300 i know for a fact i can run these titles i have like 4gb ram and windows 7 64 bit so

AMD Athlon II X2 245 @ 3.4GHz - Should be plenty
GeForce GTS 250 1GB - Just under the recommended...OCing it should help I guess
4GB DDR3-1333 - No prob here
And hard drive space is no issue

I only play on 1360x768 anyway because I use my HDTV to play games on. Playing on this low of a resolution will probably help

I'm guessing (hoping) that the recommend requirements equal high settings and 1920x1200 at 60 FPS.

eh, id reckon you could get 60fps at max settings at 1680.

unless your graphics card has a ton of memory, alot will be going on in this game.

i have 1gb of mem in each card, im planning on getting a 1920 monitor this christmas.

When running cards in crossfire you don't get double the memory.. The game will still only 'see' and use 1gb

2.1ghz Core 2
4gb ram
8800m 512mb
Windows Vista 64, but upgrading to 7 soon.

Should play fine. Still deciding if I'm going to get BC2 or not.

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