Star Wars: Battlefront System Requirements Alpha

Aaaarrrgghhh so excited. Star Wars: Battlefront is releasing later this year, 17th November, but some lucky Stormtroopers have early private Alpha access for game engine tech testing to help the developers with their debugging.

Star Wars: Battlefront is under development by DICE and Electronic Arts on the Frostbite 3 engine, which is the same engine as the one used in the latest Battlefield title, that was also made by DICE. We have the high Star Wars Battlefront system requirements, that people are requested to have to enter the Battlefront tech alpha. Lets take a look

Yesterday EA capitalised on the fact that Batman released too early, by stating that they would take their sweet time with a PC release of Battlefront if they felt it needed it. Clever marketing that. Anyway, PC Star Wars Battlefront Alpha will enable preloading for the players on 1st July. On the 2nd July at 9am (we presume UK time) Star Wars Battlefront Alpha will be available to gamers to play. Below listed are the requirements for the Alpha.

Star Wars: Battlefront Minimum System Requirements [Alpha]

OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8/8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)

CPU: Intel Core i5-2300, 2.8 GHz or AMD FX 8350, 4.0 GHz

RAM: 6 GB System Memory

GPU RAM: 2 GB

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970

DX: Directx 11

Net: Broadband Internet connection

Naturally, as a tech assessment trial these are some powerful minimum requirements for Battlefront, especially on the GPU front. The CPU segment which includes a fairly old second generation i5-2300 shouldn't be quite the same barrier to entry and the same is the case with AMD FX 8350. However, an Nvidia GTX 680 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 are both top end graphics cards and former flagships.

DICE hasn't detailed the level of settings that these cards would be able to run Battlefront at, but as far as we can predict SW Battlefront would run pretty comfortably on High settings at 1080p, if optimization is good at the time of Alpha. However, all testers should expect a bunch of bugs and possibly even missing textures. After all, the purpose of the Alpha test is to identify levels of technical stability.

So to recap, specs are high because it is an alpha build tech demo. Minimum specs displayed here will be lowered come the final release of Battlefront. The stability and experience of Battlefront is still very much under development and can change significantly between now and release. If you are wondering about your chances of getting in on the Alpha testing for Star Wars Battlefront, we are advised that applications for Star Wars: Battlefront Alpha invites ended last Tuesday, 20th June.