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 settings illustrated in the screenshot above for testing.
In this test, the Predator achieved a very decent framerate indeed, thanks to the powerful GTX 770 graphics card.