According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.
We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting to push today's gaming hardware.
Playable frame rates are produced by the 3.6GHz FX-8120 and 2GB Sapphire 7850 at Battlefield 3's most-demanding – ‘Ultra' – setting.