The hotly anticipated Battlefield hardline open beta is almost here, and Origin has now released the system requirements that you will need to play the first-person shooter on your PC. As expected, the requirements are a little higher than what you’d need to play Battlefield 4, but it is nothing a dedicated gamer can’t manage.
For starters, Battlefield hardline will no longer run on 32-bit versions of Windows, you will need 64-bits of it to work. Also, you will need double the drive space, up from 30GB to a whooping 60GB. While the minimum specs below will apply for the final build, EA warns those running 4GB of RAM or less that they may encounter issues with the beta, as optimisation has yet to be completed for lower-end PCs. You’re advised to “close all other applications while playing the game”.
Take a look at the recommended and minimum system requirements below.
Recommended:
OS: WINDOWS 8 64-BIT (with KB971512 Update)
CPU: INTEL QUAD-CORE CPU, AMD SIX-CORE CPU
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM
GRAPHICS CARD: AMD Radeon R9 290, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
GRAPHICS MEMORY: 3 GB
HARD DRIVE: 60 GB
DIRECTX 11
Minimum:
OS: WINDOWS VISTA SP2 64-BIT (with KB971512 Update)
PROCESSOR: Athlon II/Phenom II 2.8 GHz, Intel Core i3/i5 2.4GHz
MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
GRAPHICS CARD: ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (896 MB)
HARD DRIVE: 60 GB
DIRECTX 11
In related news, Battlefield Hardline senior producer Scott Probst described a player feedback program called “Game Changers” that the developers implemented for the game. The program includes YouTubers, influential Battlefield community members, fans of competing first-person shooters such as Call of Duty, as well as general fans of first-person shooters. Members of the Game Changers program were invited to Visceral Games’ studio to participate in multiple, day-long playtesting sessions over the course of Hardline’s development.
Probst said programs like Game Changers are useful for collecting feedback on maps and game modes that aren’t included in open beta versions of the game: “We’ve tuned a lot of specific game modes according to their feedback to make sure these things are going to serve the Battlefield community the way we want them to.”
