Just a day ago we had a look at the minimum and recommended specs for the Battlefield 3 beta. For most PC owners the numbers were pretty daunting – a lot of those shooting for recommended are coming up short, and are already resigning themselves to either upgrading or playing on low-medium.

However, DICE community manager Daniel Matros has been taking questions on Twitter, and it seems that the destroyer of fps is even more of a monster than we thought.

One user hopefully asked if a computer meeting the recommended requirements would be able to run the game on Ultra, a visual experience like the breathtaking videos we’ve seen circulating the internet.

As it turns out however, this hope was way too optimistic, with Matros now informing us that recommended is going to get you decent fps at medium settings.

If you’re sitting smugly back in your chair glancing at your best-money-can-buy GTX580, you may want to sit up for this. Matros has said that actually, you’ll be needing two of those. Two. To put that in perspective, a single GTX 580 right now is going to cost you around R5000.

The real question is whether or not this is the hallmark of an amazing engine with a huge ceiling on what its capable of, or if it’s just flat-out unreasonable for a game to require that kind of hardware to perform at the highest level.

The fact is, there are very few people who will be able to enjoy Battlefield 3 to its full capabilities, but that shouldn’t deter you. Even at medium, the game will most likely be very pretty, and gameplay should always trump graphics.

Source: PCGamer