Despite some recent unrest within the community , Battlefield 6 is mostly a home run for the venerable military shooter series—thanks in part to its pristine optimization . It boasts a low barrier to entry due to non-prohibitive system requirements , and those requirements are so low fans have been putting it through the wringer to see just how old a GPU can run it .

More recently, YouTuber Fully Buffered (via Tom's Hardware ) got the game to run on an AMD FX-9590 CPU , first released in 2013, revealing that the game's stated minimum required specs are a bit misleading.

Fully Buffered broke down his process in the above video, where he shows the game running on the 12-year-old chip to a quality standard he calls "not terrible." It peaks at around mid-40 FPS at lower resolutions, though i

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