Why is performance so bad?

[BubbaFett]

I finally decided to buy the game while it was on sale and was extremely disappointed by the performance. I pretty much have to play with medium visuals and lowered effects and it ruins the experience of the game for me. But even after lowering these settings I still struggle to maintain a frame rate above 40 FPS. I had zero issues with Warhammer 2 and I use High to Ultra settings while keeping a steady 60 fps. Im running an RTX 2060, i7 8700 16gb RAM on a 1440p Monitor.

[Lamp]

Simply put: Because they dgaf.

[Sarumoon]

Well first of all, make sure you are at 1080p, you cannot play this game at 1440p, on that GPU.

Other than that, your performance sounds about right, for that setup. it's not a very strong GPU.

[Filthy Pollo 🐔]

Originally posted by JagWar:

I finally decided to buy the game while it was on sale and was extremely disappointed by the performance. I pretty much have to play with medium visuals and lowered effects and it ruins the experience of the game for me. But even after lowering these settings I still struggle to maintain a frame rate above 40 FPS. I had zero issues with Warhammer 2 and I use High to Ultra settings while keeping a steady 60 fps. Im running an RTX 2060, i7 8700 16gb RAM on a 1440p Monitor.

You should use framecap at 60 fps using nvidia control panel and use resolution scale to 75% or lower if it fits better using GeForce experience

[fdisk7716]

Originally posted by Filthy Pollo:

Originally posted by JagWar:

I finally decided to buy the game while it was on sale and was extremely disappointed by the performance. I pretty much have to play with medium visuals and lowered effects and it ruins the experience of the game for me. But even after lowering these settings I still struggle to maintain a frame rate above 40 FPS. I had zero issues with Warhammer 2 and I use High to Ultra settings while keeping a steady 60 fps. Im running an RTX 2060, i7 8700 16gb RAM on a 1440p Monitor.

You should use framecap at 60 fps using nvidia control panel and use resolution scale to 75% or lower if it fits better using GeForce experience

I don't know if you know this because you are not very good with computers, but capping the frame rate outside of the game is admitting there is problems with this software. This indicates there is a resource management issue in the game. When you tell people this game works no bugs and no issues, you are lying.

[sirkudjon]

Originally posted by Lamp:

Simply put: Because they dgaf.

That and denuvo doing it's thing.

[SpeaksTooFast]

Originally posted by sirkudjon:

That and denuvo doing it's thing.

denuvo was in the last game

@OP the game is poorly optimized. It tends to get worse later in campaigns as well. I never had FPS issues and actually capped my FPS under 60 because of cooling issues. If you are not already doing so you may want to keep an eye on your GPU temps just in case you are pushing the comfortable boundary.

[Moot]

fan boys will say its your fault this game runs as bad as a besthesda game. no wait, those ran better lol

[TequilaZaire]

Originally posted by JagWar:

I finally decided to buy the game while it was on sale and was extremely disappointed by the performance. I pretty much have to play with medium visuals and lowered effects and it ruins the experience of the game for me. But even after lowering these settings I still struggle to maintain a frame rate above 40 FPS. I had zero issues with Warhammer 2 and I use High to Ultra settings while keeping a steady 60 fps. Im running an RTX 2060, i7 8700 16gb RAM on a 1440p Monitor.

Optimization isn't great, but a 2060 isn't going to run the game well at 1440p regardless. 1080p is a better target point for performance. More so if you're trying to run this on high and ultra.

[BubbaFett]

I ran the game on 1080p and Medium-High settings and got steady 60 FPS even though the game looks ugly and blurry since it's not my native resolution. GPU started working harder than usual after a little while. Guess i'll just go back to Warhammer 2.

[Slyspy]

That set up is pretty weak for either WH3 or WH2 to be honest. My rig is even weaker and my campaign map doesn't even run at 30fps at 1080p because I insist on having the settings higher than they should be.

[Fauxsteel]

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[snaps]

You'll have to sacrifice a fair bit in the settings but you should be able to get a somewhat respectable frame-rate in battles.

For a good balance of detail and fps with your rig I'd recommend:

Textures - ultra
Texture filtering - 16x
Shadows - medium/high
Terrain - ultra
Unit detail - high/ultra
Fog - low
VFX - medium
SSAO - on

Lighting quality - low

Grass - low
Trees - low
Buildings - med/high
Screen space shadows - off
Screen space reflections - off

Anti-aliasing: TAA hits the gfx card hard. If you can get used to having it off, it will help a lot.
Basically up to you on that front. GL

[BubbaFett]

Originally posted by Slyspy:

That set up is pretty weak for either WH3 or WH2 to be honest. My rig is even weaker and my campaign map doesn't even run at 30fps at 1080p because I insist on having the settings higher than they should be.

warhammer 2 runs perfectly fine for me on high- ultra on 1440p though.

[BubbaFett]

Originally posted by snaps:

You'll have to sacrifice a fair bit in the settings but you should be able to get a somewhat respectable frame-rate in battles.

For a good balance of detail and fps with your rig I'd recommend:

Textures - ultra
Texture filtering - 16x
Shadows - medium/high
Terrain - ultra
Unit detail - high/ultra
Fog - low
VFX - medium
SSAO - on

Lighting quality - low

Grass - low
Trees - low
Buildings - med/high
Screen space shadows - off
Screen space reflections - off

Anti-aliasing: TAA hits the gfx card hard. If you can get used to having it off, it will help a lot.
Basically up to you on that front. GL

I was using similar settings with fxaa and sharpening since it looked best for the reduced resolution and was getting 60 fps on battles and campaign but my GPU started running hot and working harder than it should so i just decided to not play the game if its gonna take all kinds of workarounds to get it running. The game is way too poorly optimized.

[Moldy_Lunchbox321]

I had pretty great performance on a 3080 before Chaos Dwarfs, but it's gone down significantly for this game since. Campaign map still has choppy fps