Battlefield 3 PC system requirements

DICE has revealed the system specifications for Battlefield 3 on PC.

They're relatively meaty - you won't get away with a DirectX 9 graphics card here.

Minimum

• OS: Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit
• Processor: 2GHZ Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHZ or Athlon x2 2.7GHZ)
• Memory: 2GB RAM
• Hard drive: 20GB
• Graphics card AMD: DirextX 10.1 compatible with 512MB RAM (ATI Radion 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radion 3870 or higher performance)
• Graphics card Nvidia: DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
• Sound card: DirectX compatible
• Keyboard and mouse
• DVD ROM drive

Recommended

• OS: Windows 7 64-big
• Processor: Quad Core CPU
• Memory: 4GB RAM
• Hard drive: 20GB
• Graphics card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
• Sound card: DirectX compatible
• Keyboard and mouse
• DVD ROM drive