News Battlefield 6 requirements suggest it'll run on surprisingly modest PCs — EA VP says it still won't work on Steam Deck, though

[Admin]

You can run BF6 on an eight-year-old CPU and six-year-old GPU but Steam Deck is left out of the fight

Battlefield 6 requirements suggest it'll run on surprisingly modest PCs — EA VP says it still won't work on Steam Deck, though : Read more

 

[rluker5]

Just to note: Battlefield 6 requirements also included ARC

 

[BTM18]

That was not my experience. Easily the most GPU demanding BF ever.

 

[Thunder64]

On the visual side, EA saves you money by letting you play BF6 even without an RTX 5080

Come on, that's just downright stupid editorializing. No way they would come even close to limiting their install base to such a high level.

 

[Neilbob]

The RTX 1080 Ti, as recommend for Call of Duty, must've passed me by...

Anyway, Battlefield of no interest to grumpy, slow old farts like me. Which is a good job as I'm increasingly below the specifications required by modern games, and not seeing any sign of that changing any time soon.

 

[Amdlova]

TPM 2.0
UEFI SECURE BOOT
HVCI
VBS

YES Very "Surprisingly modest PCs"

 

[bigdragon]

BF6 is made to run on the latest Playstation and XBox consoles -- platforms that are now ancient compared to the latest in PC technology. It makes sense that EA would have requirements from 5 years in the past. This also helps attract the largest install base possible. No surprise.

I watched a little bit of their trailer and started laughing. Yeah, Battlefield 3 was supposed to look and play like that too. I hope nobody is pre-ordering this garbage. Get ready for a giant unlock grind, balance issues, meta nonsense, and networking problems just like all the other BF games!

 

[palladin9479]

And here we were made to believe games needed 32GB of VRAM and 1TB of system RAM to run. Or maybe they were just poorly ported.

 

[qwertymac93]

And here we were made to believe games needed 32GB of VRAM and 1TB of system RAM to run. Or maybe they were just poorly ported.

UE5 games, maybe. Frostbite 2+ has always been a decently efficient engine in terms of hardware requirements.

 

[rentbox]

Won't run on Steam Deck is less about having a dedicated graphics card and more about whatever kernel level anticheat garbage they'll be forcing down PC players throats. It could work on Deck and other Linux distros, but EA doesn't care about that segment since it's 2% of reported players and even then, only a fraction of that 2 will play the game.

 

[ezst036]

Won't run on Steam Deck is less about having a dedicated graphics card and more about whatever kernel level anticheat garbage they'll be forcing down PC players throats. It could work on Deck and other Linux distros, but EA doesn't care about that segment since it's 2% of reported players and even then, only a fraction of that 2 will play the game.

This.

Linux is much more prime-time ready than most corporations will allow it to be.

Anybody who has used a Steam Deck knows this. This isn't the 1990s anymore where you gotta modify conf files just to get a video display and then edit the conf some more to get the second monitor. Those days are so far gone that a teenager just now starting using Linux isn't even old enough to possibly have memories of those days.

 

[blppt]

It makes sense that EA would have requirements from 5 years in the past. This also helps attract the largest install base possible. No surprise.

A lot of the time it comes down to the gap between a closed, single spec platform and an open platform in terms of being able to optimize something for much weaker hardware.

 

[rustigsmed]

Kernel level anti cheat - no way I'm giving the keys to my pc to EA - hard pass

 

[usertests]

That was not my experience. Easily the most GPU demanding BF ever.

It's a game designed to run on current-gen consoles, that also needs to be optimized for a massive potential userbase. The previous entry, Battlefield 2042 (2021) supported PS4 and Xbox One.

Their minimum specs are targeting 1080p/30 with very weak cards like an A380. But players could always go below that and try locked 720p/30 instead. The EA exec says it won't work on Steam Deck, but I wonder if that's actually true. I don't see any YouTubers testing that yet.

 

[aplomBomb]

I'll be the judge of that. I dont trust anything EA says.

 

[abufrejoval]

TPM, HVCI, VBS are all no-gos, if this takes hold, adiós gaming.

What they call anti-cheat is taking over your personal computer, and I don't run with the Fruity Cult for a reason.

I also run VMWare Workstation, because Hyper-V doesn't cut it so HVCI and VBS are simply not an option.

TPM triggers BitLocker on Windows and I care much less about someone being able to read my data if my computer is stolen, than me being able to move my storage between systems without issue, so I keep that deactivated.

Zero break-ins where I live, nor do I take my workstations on the road.

 

[LordVile]

TPM 2.0
UEFI SECURE BOOT
HVCI
VBS

YES Very "Surprisingly modest PCs"

Yes anything released in the last 8 years

 

[Amdlova]

Yes anything released in the last 8 years

Some people out there still using sandy-bridge cpus or ivy-bridge maybe a haswell devices, not everyone has a shine new Raptor lake, just look at Steam survey and will see tons of quad core =) (this is a modest)

 

[LordVile]

Some people out there still using sandy-bridge cpus or ivy-bridge maybe a haswell devices, not everyone has a shine new Raptor lake, just look at Steam survey and will see tons of quad core =) (this is a modest)

You mean the stuff that no one should be using now? The performance of those parts and the cost to get the motherboards, coolers and RAM make them more expensive than an entry grade APU whilst offering worse performance. On the steam hardware survey less than 20% of people use fewer than 6 cores and even then there are 2 and 4 core parts that are new enough like the ones that are popular in mobile SKUs.

I also wouldn’t call Zen+ and Coffee Lake “shine new”.

 

[aplomBomb]

Some people out there still using sandy-bridge cpus or ivy-bridge maybe a haswell devices, not everyone has a shine new Raptor lake, just look at Steam survey and will see tons of quad core =) (this is a modest)

Raptor lake? More like Faptor Lake.