Star Wars Battlefront 2 System Requirements

Star Wars Battlefront 2 system requirements can be rather high for your typical gamer.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 system requirements can be rather high for your typical gamer. / Photo courtesy of EA

Star Wars Battlefront 2 system requirements can be rather high for your typical gamer. For such a beautiful-looking AAA game, it can be assumed that Star Wars Battlefront 2 has some intense system requirements. The latest in the series of multiplayer shooters from EA games, Battlefront has undergone a series of updates leaving both diehard fans of the series and newcomers singing the game's praises in the wake of some incredibly harsh criticism around its release.

With Rise of the Skywalker hitting theaters just this past Thursday, many force-sensitives are itching for more Star Wars content to consume. If you're like me and just need something to get you through the week until the latest Mandalorian episode premiers, then read below to check if your system is robust enough to handle it.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 System Requirements

If you ask three different PC users the best way to check the system requirements for a game, you'll probably get three different answers. Whether through just checking the game's Origin page, or using a web tool like System Requirements Lab, it's not too difficult to get a list of both the minimum system requirements to run the game, and a more robust set of recommended specifications, both of which are listed below for clarity.

Minimum:
CPU: AMD FX-6350 or Intel Core i5 6600K.

CPU SPEED: Info

RAM: 8 GB

OS: 64-bit Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

VIDEO CARD: AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB

PIXEL SHADER: 5.0

VERTEX SHADER: 5.0

SOUND CARD: Yes

FREE DISK SPACE: 15 GB

DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2048 MB

Recommended:
CPU: AMD FX 8350 Wraith or Intel Core i7 6700 or equivalent

CPU SPEED: Info

RAM: 16 GB

OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later

VIDEO CARD: AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

PIXEL SHADER: 5.1

VERTEX SHADER: 5.1

FREE DISK SPACE: 15 GB

DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 3 GB (4 GB AMD)

If all that technical jargon seems meaningless or confusing, fear not, there is an even easier way to check if your rig can run Battlefront 2, the use of System Requirement Labs Can You Run It tool. This allows users to select any PC game and run a scan of their own computer using Detection.exe. The result is a handy report of your computers specifications and a breakdown of whether or not you can run your selected game, Battlefront 2 in this game, as well as why.

So why wait? Go check your system, get on the battelfield, and may the Force be with you.