Recommended Specs?

[Aelies von Saladir]

So, according to the Store Page, the recommended system requirements is:
Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5
Graphics: 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

My PC uses a 560 Ti and a 2nd Generation Core i7
I know that the recommended system is not for the 'Ultra Everything' setting, but still, the only way for me to make the game playable is set it at 'Everything is Ugly' setting. Is this CA's standard or is it my PC just not working properly for some reasons? Is the recommended setting actually what they recommend for the 'Everything is Ugly' setting?
I am considering buying another CA's game, in which my PC passes the Minimum system requirements but falls short of the Recommended one. Though if the recommended specs could only hope to produce the 'Everything is Ugly' setting, I think that I would rather pass.

[Itharus]

The game runs pretty crappy. Total War: Warhammer runs way more smoothly, oddly enough.

[bearfieldlee]

Warhammer does run potentially more smoothly than any previous title but needs a heck of a graphics card an runs it at fairly high temps.

[Rocket]

It's odd since the game is made for intel CPUs but most of the complaints have been from i7 users. I got an AMD 8350 and it ran well enough with the same card you have (560 ti). Although I've upgraded to an RX 480 now.

[Mile pro Libertate]

The i7 users complain mostly because they think they should be getting much better performance than they're getting.

But the game performance doesn't grow in a linear way; past a certain point, you have diminishing returns.

The game runs fine for me with Large units on a 650 Ti Boost SC 2 gig (EVGA) and an Athlon II, with Large textures and screen space reflections and SSAO off, and shadows and Units on Performance and other settings on Quality, so it shows me that there is a tipping point of diminishing return and bottlenecks.

The graphics card doesn't seem so important in Attila (so long as you don't want all of the post processing stuff like depth of field and SSAO) as the cpu, but the newer cpus are very under utilized in this game.

Op: try letting the game set the "Recommended" settings option, then scale back from there till you are getting the performance you want. You'll probably want to start with turning shadows down, and grass distance.

If you put units on Performance you'll still have good quality, and dead bodies, but not massive slowdown.

[Mile pro Libertate]

And make sure you have updated release drivers for the card, motherboard drivers, and set power options for the card to "prefer maximum performance."

Set "pre rendered frames" to manual instead of application controlled, and work down from 4 to 1 till you get smoother performance.

Make sure vsync, aa, and other options are on application controlled.

Run the game at the same resolution as what is native for your screen.

Make sure you have good ram. Install more ram if you can, and at the max speed for your mobo if you can afford to do that.

Make sure hard drive has been De-Fragmented and you do not have background tasks running.

Also, some of us seem to be getting better performance because we're using Win7 that doesn't have a bunch of bloatware on it. So if you can, consider using Win7 with SP1.

[Teh_Diplomat]

IBM's Watson, anything else will stutter at some point; it's not a well optimized game.

[Viksteri]

Originally posted by Aelies von Saladir:

So, according to the Store Page, the recommended system requirements is:
Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5
Graphics: 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

My PC uses a 560 Ti and a 2nd Generation Core i7
I know that the recommended system is not for the 'Ultra Everything' setting, but still, the only way for me to make the game playable is set it at 'Everything is Ugly' setting. Is this CA's standard or is it my PC just not working properly for some reasons? Is the recommended setting actually what they recommend for the 'Everything is Ugly' setting?
I am considering buying another CA's game, in which my PC passes the Minimum system requirements but falls short of the Recommended one. Though if the recommended specs could only hope to produce the 'Everything is Ugly' setting, I think that I would rather pass.

Try to click recomended option and than customize