Can I Run Battlefield 2042?
DICE released Battlefield 2042 in 2021. It is an action adventure game, published by Electronic Arts. The game supports cooperative play. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. With more than 259 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Completionists have 34 achievements to work through. 14 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Core i5 6600K |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 560,Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Intel Core i7 4790 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a military setting, moving through combat arenas. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from a first person view.
Why Battlefield 2042 is demanding
Demand in Battlefield 2042 is ordinary. The publisher has AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Installation is large at roughly 100 GB. Battlefield 2042 calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Battlefield 2042 scales hard with the hardware you give it. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Battlefield 2042 needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Battlefield 2042?
Free up space before installing Battlefield 2042: it needs roughly 100 GB. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, AMD Radeon RX 560,Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Battlefield 2042 needs about 100 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.56x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.25x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Battlefield 2042's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Battlefield 2042?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Core i5 6600K; GPU: AMD Radeon RX 560,Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti; 8 GB RAM; OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
How much storage does Battlefield 2042 need?
Battlefield 2042 needs about 100 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Battlefield 2042?
The RTX 3060 runs Battlefield 2042 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Battlefield 2042?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Battlefield 2042 is the GPU.