The Open Beta for Battlefield 2042 will start soon. The system requirements have now been announced and are sometimes quite high.
The open beta for Battlefield 2042 will start on 8 October. Publisher EA respectively developer Dice has now announced the system requirements for the beta. To meet the minimum specifications, you will need an entry-level graphics card that is about five years old and a mid-range quad-core Intel CPU that is six years old. If you have an AMD processor, however, it should not be more than two years old.
The system requirements at a glance
Minimum PC-Specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 560
- DirectX: Version 12
- RAM: 8.0 GByte
- Memory: 100.0 GByte
- Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
Recommended PC-Specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7 4790 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
- GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- RAM: 16.0 GByte
- Memory: 100.0 GByte
- Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
The system requirements are quite demanding
The recommended specifications are quite demanding. Until now, it was assumed that an RTX 2060 would be enough to power Battlefield 2042. Now – at least for the Open Beta – it should be an RTX 3060 or an RX 6600 XT.
The report does not explicitly state which resolution level and which level of detail are involved with regard to the recommended specs, but we assume Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) including the highest graphics settings, without the AI upscaler DLSS.
Although the recommended specifications for the graphics card are relatively high, the minimum specs are comparatively modest. Again, we don’t know exactly what resolution and level of detail are involved. However, experience shows that Battlefield 2042 should also run smoothly on older systems.
What does this mean for the final specifications? The specifications are the system requirements for the open beta. For the final game, these may look different again, but they will probably not deviate too much.
Battlefield 2042 will also feature Nvidia’s AI upscaler DLSS, which is why we believe that an RTX 2060 should be sufficient to play the first-person shooter in full HD with the highest details.
What do you think? Do you think the system requirements are excessive or appropriate? Feel free to post your opinion in the comments
