{"id":14230,"date":"2011-09-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dice-bf3-recommended-specs-not-even-close-to-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14230-dice-bf3-recommended-specs-not-even-close-to-ultra","title":{"rendered":"DICE: BF3 recommended specs not even close to Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14186-Battlefield-beta-system-requirements.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming\">a day ago<\/a> we had a look at the minimum and recommended specs for the Battlefield 3 beta. For most PC owners the numbers were pretty daunting &ndash; a lot of those shooting for recommended are coming up short, and are already resigning themselves to either upgrading or playing on low-medium.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;ve seen circulating the internet.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;s just flat-out unreasonable for a game to require that kind of hardware to perform at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, there are very few people who will be able to enjoy Battlefield 3 to its full capabilities, but that shouldn&rsquo;t deter you. Even at medium, the game will most likely be very pretty, and gameplay should always trump graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/09\/23\/battlefield-3-will-need-monster-rig-to-run-on-ultra-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PC Gamer\">PCGamer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither is a top of the line graphics card&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}