Can I Run Ground Branch?
Ground Branch is an action indie game from BlackFoot Studios, released in 2018. MicroProse Software published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. The game ships for Windows alone. At 8 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Its Steam review count passes 21 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD RX Vega-56 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Ground Branch places its action in a military setting, and the player works through tight tactical maps. Play is presented from a first person view. The publisher supplies 16 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Ground Branch is demanding
The ask Ground Branch makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD RX Vega-56 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Ground Branch expects 16 GB of system memory. Ground Branch takes about 30 GB of disk space. Ground Branch needs 64 bit Windows. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Ground Branch scales hard with the hardware you give it. Ground Branch names just 2 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Ground Branch?
Older hardware holds up here: Ground Branch runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Ground Branch's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Ground Branch?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Ground Branch?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-8350; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.
How much storage does Ground Branch need?
Ground Branch needs about 30 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Ground Branch?
The RTX 3060 runs Ground Branch comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Ground Branch?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Ground Branch is the GPU.