Tank Simulator for Windows 7 28 August 2014 at 12:06PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Gaming MoneySaving 3 replies 1.1K views

Steve_Warwickshire

Hi all.
I am looking for a tank simulator game,from WW2 to the present day.

My laptop is running Windows 7.
Can anybody recommend a good/great tank simulator to me please?

JasX

None immediately spring to mind... are you thinking along the lines of:

-an RTS type 'large scale tank battles' type game (or maybe turn based)
or
-a simplified *point and click* or FPS type game where you control a single tank
or
-something where you get into very geeky levels of controlling a tank ie adjusting barrel elevations and pushing/pulling levers?

Scotty1.7

World of Tanks is one option - Its not totally historically right, and its doesn't have the complicated controls - think more like a FPS keyboard and mouse style game. Its about a 8GB download I think ish

To play this well - as with most MMO I think - you need a strong CPU and good graphics, its more driven by CPU performance then overall spec - but it can play relatively well on a reasonable machine

War Thunder:Ground Forces is another option, again none of the difficult controls but has 3 difficulty as such settings. Same download size as well

For WT:GF it is a little better optimized for multi core platforms so is a little less demanding but it can work quite well

Both have quite a large player base.

Look on Youtube for The Mighty Jingles, he has some good video insight into both these games

Both work of the Free to Play MMO base, though you can if you choose buy tanks, or prem time etc - itsa not a must though.

Both also have varied tech trees, and you can work your way up these, upgrading current tanks, researching new tanks etc

I play both of the above and this is my previous and current pc

Old
E5500 2.8ghz cpu
4gb ram
GTX 660 graphics Card
Win 7
(The motherboard and cpu really held this card back and as such WoT was around 20-30 FPS on min settings)

New
I5- 4690K 3.5 GHz stock(Clocked to 4.2 GHZ currnetly)
Nepton 140 xl water cooling for cpu
16GB Corsiar quad channel ram
250GB SSD
GTX 660
(Currently maxed graphics with a few annoying options off, sits in WoT @60-70FPS easily)

War thunder as I said is a little better optimised but as a guide with the above

Old - Min graphics 50-120FPS
New - Max Graphics 90 - 150 FPS

There is a new one in development as well - Armoured Warefare. Its more modern tanks with the same idea as above it looks like

These are the three that spring to my mind stright away - not sure of any other's that a just Tank games, some games do incorporate 'Tank' driving as such as part of a bigger game I think?

JasX

I've used HYSYS in the past as a very decent tank simulator

You can model filling a water tank with water, etc etc right to the top and emptying it again, even an old/historic/WW2 leaking one -exciting stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_process_simulators

(yes I'm a boring Engineer ;p )