Battlefield 2042 system requirements

The Battlefield 2042 system requirements are a slight step up from those listed for the August technical play test, but you'll still need at least 8GB of RAM in your gaming PC to keep the game ticking or up it to 16GB in order to meet the recommended. And, as we expected, Battlefield 2042 takes up 100GB of space and recommends an SSD for optimum performance.

Fortunately, you don't need much to meet the game's requirements. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 560, but you might notice EA has raised the bar for the minimum CPUs as you'll now need an Intel Core i5-6600K or an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 to run the game - the latter of which was the previously recommended processor.

The recommended specs show the biggest leap if you want to hit 60fps at 1080p resolution, now suggesting the current generation Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT rather than their previous-gen counterparts. Nothing's changed if you're team blue, as an Intel Core i7-4790 is advised, while team red players will need to rock an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or greater.

Battlefield 2042 review

Check out the Battlefield 2042 review over on PCGamesN to see if the latest entry in the Battlefield franchise is worth your time, or if you should stick with Battlefield V or move over to Call of Duty: Vanguard.

Latest Battlefield game

For the latest game in the series, check out the Battlefield 6 requirements guide. Otherwise, check out what could still be the most popular BF experience to date with the Battlefield 5 system requirements. 

Battlefield 2042 will run on PC system with Windows 10 and upwards.

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Battlefield 2042 FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Battlefield 2042? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our free tool on Overwolf to tell you exactly how Battlefield 2042 performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Battlefield 2042 run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
130	Intel Core i7-10700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	32 GB
129	Intel Core i7-9700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	32 GB
31	Intel Core i5-9400F	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER	16 GB
28	Intel Core i7-10700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	32 GB
13	Intel Core i7-10700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	16 GB

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