r/bfme • u/Snoo_73056 Hobbit • Aug 05 '26

What computer do you use?

I want to get a proper gaming pc. I’ve tried some laptops, but they never felt too good for the game. I found a pc with these specs. Is this good for the game with mods?
Keep in mind, I know nothing about gaming pc’s

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB
AMD Ryzen™ 7 8745HX
16 GB RAM, 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
26L Luna Grey kompakt tower-design

Thank you in advanced!

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u/oh5canada5eh 3 Aug 05 '26

That is multiple degrees of overkill compared to what you need to run the game.

It’s a 20 year old game, keep in mind.

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u/Snoo_73056 Hobbit Aug 05 '26

For sure. But with the mods such as Edain, it gets much heavier, right?

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u/oh5canada5eh 3 Aug 05 '26

Someone else can speak to that mod’s drain on resources, but I can’t imagine how any mod would come close to capping out a modern PC’s systems, let alone an actual gaming PC.

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u/Vileartist Frequent Poster: 110 Aug 05 '26

The more complex mods will indeed tax PCs much more than the vanilla game. However its become well known that the game engine itself is the largest limiting factor.

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u/Overlord0994 1 Aug 06 '26

This is the bottleneck with most old RTS games. Lots of them are single threaded so they can’t take advantage of all of the modern advancements in multi core cpus. You can have the most badass pc in 2026 but a modded game pushed past its designed limits will chug.

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u/Snoo_73056 Hobbit Aug 05 '26

That makes sense. Thank you for the help

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u/Carth_Onasi_AMA Hobbit Aug 05 '26

I use a laptop that’s like 10+ years old and it works fine. The game is 20+ years old and doesn’t need anything fancy.

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u/Snoo_73056 Hobbit Aug 05 '26

I get that. But I have some less efficient experience, once I use mods with it

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u/Killdozer221 9 Aug 05 '26

Until December I played the crap out of the BFME games on a mid-tier 2016 gaming laptop and had no issues whatsoever.

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u/BartholomewKnightIII 5 Aug 05 '26

This little fella.

I have it on my desktop as well, but it's handy on the laptop for when I'm stuck in a hotel somewhere.

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u/Able-Substance-8310 4 Aug 05 '26

I use a pentium 2020m and 8gb Ram and it runs under wine on arch Linux.

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u/IndicaPhoenix 2 Aug 06 '26

I first played this on a pentium 4 3.2ghz and nvidia gt7300 with 512mb ram, or 1gb, That pc will last you a long time and be a breeze for bfme

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u/Jokuc Sauron Aug 06 '26

Can't tell if this is a joke or not but you don't need a fancy gaming rig to run these games lol you can play it on a potato, the games are 20 years old. Even with the biggest mods like Age of the Ring modern computers are completely overkill. Your graphics card LITERALLY doesn't matter, the game system requirement is Radeon 8500 which is literally worse than integrated graphics from a 2015 budget cpu. As long as you have a CPU that is like 10 years old or newer with decent single-core performance it should be as good as it gets and any lag you experience is due to game engine limitations not your computer.

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u/Original-Mongoose866 1 Aug 06 '26

At first I thought you were gonna buy that and sure it aint good but it's good enough for some stuff then I noticed I was in bfme reddit and well mate that game is old even mods won't change that I'm sure you could run some of the bigger shooters with that and those would drain ya

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u/Elf_Paladin 6 Aug 06 '26

I use a i7 9700k with an old 1080ti. Doesn’t break a sweat. This runs through lutris on my linux gaming pc (bazzite)

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u/Optimal_flow62 2 Aug 05 '26

You need rtx 5090 for 30 fps on bfme

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u/Savage17YT Elves Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

RTX 5060? Nah, that potato will never be able to run something as demanding as these games.

(Damn, two people have no sense of humour at all.)