I am currently at university and for mobility of my rig i bought an asus ROG last year..
I am running:
asus gtx 850m
i74770k
and either 8 or 12 gb of ram 
will i be able to run bf1?
Most likely. Don’t expect to run on max settings with a good FPS though. You will probably be able to run low.
That GPU is pretty weak.
I know my desktop is a lot better but aint worth taking to uni as i’m back home a fair bit too! Soon as i finish uni i’m buying a new 4k rig
Don’t get a 4K monitor unless you plan to spend a LOT on graphics cards dude. More pixels = more work for the GPU.
oh I do plan to bro, i’m doing radiotherapy so I will have a health job before I qualify all ready for me so i intend to spend my first wage on upgrading the rig! 
no offense but that’s a poor way to manage your money.
the gpu is pretty weak… so i am to assume you are buying this laptop in a few months? why not just buy a desktop?
That is the reason @ThePoolshark, wants portability, so a laptop as well as a top notch desktop, hence why he is asking if the laptop will run the game.
Can’t have both so guessing he only has the budget for the new desktop ?
I also read it wrong initially, thought the cpu was something else that wasn’t out yet, lol.
Try Battlefront, if you can run that decently, I would guess you could run BF1, although nothing official is out there regarding specs
Hey, after going through years of schooling to do radiotherapy why not reward yourself? I doubt one paycheque is going to cripple the guy.
SWBF would be closest game to compare to.
SWBF Minimum Requirements:
- CPU: Intel Core i3-6300T or equivalent
- RAM: 8 GB
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / ATI Radeon HD 7850 with 2GB of Video Memory
- Free Disk Space: 40 GB