Battlefield 3 Not Coming to Win XP

[Scott Tortorice]

From Blues News:

No XP Battlefield 3?

A tweet from Johan Andersson from this past summer offers a revelation not noted here at the time, as the tweet seems to confirm rumors from 2007 that the Frostbite 2.0 engine that will power the upcoming Battlefield 3 will not support Windows XP, saying: "Frostbite 2 is primarily developed for DX11. XP & DX9 is _not_ supported, 64-bit OS is recommended. Lots of time to upgrade if you haven't!" The thread about this on the Electronic Arts Forums also has comments noting this was revealed already, and there are slides in DICE's SIGGRAPH 2010 presentation indicating Frostbite 2.0 will only support DirectX 10 and DirectX 11.

The days of me upgrading for a single new game are over. Not that I am using XP anyway; just saying.

Seems to me that we are getting very close to 64-bit exclusive gaming....

 

[jayedub7423]

Nice, but let's hope the new engine is better optimized. I love Bad Company 2, but it's not the best running game when playing online.

 

[Scott Tortorice]

That's for sure. I had to turn down my normal settings just to get a decent framerate.