Two Technical Questions Before Buying

Gratuitous Tank Battles General
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  1. Would this game run on my terrible NVidia GeForce 9200 Integrated video card?

    8 Stream Processors.
    529 MHz core clock.
    1300 MHz shader clock.
    400 MHz memory clock.
    Up to 256 MB memory.
    64-bit memory interface.
    6.4 GB/s memory bandwidth.
    27.1GPixel/s Pixel Fillrate.
    4.2GTexel/s Texture Fillrate

Yes technically it is listed above 128mb memory but I know from experience that it is a pathetic piece of junk with it’s 8 Stream Processors. Like GSB barely runs smoothly after I disable most things so…

  1. Should I buy this game on Steam for the $5 discount? I saw people are having problems with it. And knowing the update delay on GSB and I don’t know if it’s worth it. I just wish the in store price would be the same as steam.
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Very hard to tell. For what it’s worth, the technical issues people are having seem to be related purely to the steam-interface co-existing with GTB, not the games performance itself, which seems fine for almost everyone.
The game does let you run it at fairly low res (1024x768) and disable a lot of options, so it may still run ok, but every hardware combination is different…

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Lol no luck. I bought the game but I can only play the first 2 stage before it start REALLY lagging… Every visual effect is disabled and I even took the time to set special performance rules on my video card. I guess that’s that.