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.
A demanding game at these high settings, although the hardware on test has no problem maintaining very smooth frame rates. The KFA2 card averages 95 frames per second at these settings.