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 above and recorded the average frame rate with Fraps.
The GTX 770 had no trouble with Battlefield 3, averaging over 90 FPS.