system requirements

[zippysmokes]

hi im just wondering if anyone can give me any advice as i just got a new laptop an know nearly nothing about them ,just curious if i will be able to play the total war warhammer games with my specs

windows 11 64bit
12th gen intel core i7 12700h 2.7ghz
geforce rtx 3060 6gb
16gb ram
512gb ssd

like i said i have no idea if thats good power or not and tbh what threw me a bit is i noticed alot of games are asking for a processer with like 3.2ghz to 4ghz and mine shows up as 2.7 on my specs list im hoping its ok though ,any advice at all is appericated

[Elitewrecker PT]

You might have relatively slow turn times, but otherwise it'll play.

[zippysmokes]

oh ok thanks ,i just had no idea lol cheers

[intenselygoodtime]

YES YOU CAN!
I just bought two new laptops with that EXACT spec for my kids, and after I uninstalled all the tons of MSI-installed bloat-ware (including Norton and a million language packs), ran all Windows Updates, and then updated all drivers, TWWH1 ran at Ultra for 78 FPS in Battle and over 90FPS in Campaign.

That's with zero tweaking. The first thing I usually turn down is shadows (I find them useless and distracting in MOST games), and I'll likely reduce reflections and FXAA a bit.

Just fair warning: IF you want to play all 3 games together, with all DLC, you will need to buy & install a 2nd SSD just for that. Your main 512GB will already be 1/3 consumed (at least) by the OS and reserved space.

[Elitewrecker PT]

You don't need all games installed for the combined map. WH3 takes up 109 GB, that's the only amount you'd need.
But you'd probably have to reinstall the game everytime there's an update because you wouldn't have enough free space for the patching process to run.

[TheAlmightyProo]

I'd add, further to intenselygoodtime's comment...

Might help for WH2, certainly will for WH3... take a look at the settings guide in the main forum page. Much performance can be gained for little loss by lowering or cutting settings that take far more than they add. It may also help to cap fps a tad under whatever average you find (with or without tweaking settings) to mitigate the extent and frequency of under load fps drops deeper into the game. You'll be able to run it fine with those specs @1080p, especially with some tweaking, but it'll take whatever spare your specs have to give.

As for the CPU spec re 2.7 GHz, that's just the base frequency. For anything more demanding than day to day stuff it'll boost itself to more than enough (somewhere between 3.5-4.7GHz depending on number of cores used) for this game/series, so no worries.

What model laptop is it btw?

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Publicado originalmente por TheAlmightyProo:

take a look at the settings guide in the main forum page.

Where is this? On the actual Total War Forums or here on Steam? I don't see it on Steam, drop a link?

[veracsthane]

Publicado originalmente por zippysmokes:

hi im just wondering if anyone can give me any advice as i just got a new laptop an know nearly nothing about them ,just curious if i will be able to play the total war warhammer games with my specs

windows 11 64bit
12th gen intel core i7 12700h 2.7ghz
geforce rtx 3060 6gb
16gb ram
512gb ssd

like i said i have no idea if thats good power or not and tbh what threw me a bit is i noticed alot of games are asking for a processer with like 3.2ghz to 4ghz and mine shows up as 2.7 on my specs list im hoping its ok though ,any advice at all is appericated

as others have said it will run and play but load times will be stupid long.
the devs will not be fixing the load times thanks to tww3 too. you need an i9 and an ssd i think it was with 3 sticks of the best ram to get decent load times because of how bad it is. there is something on code end that causes it to freeze up at 90% loaded no problems and you just gotta wait for their failure of a code to ♥♥♥♥♥♥ itself.

[TheAlmightyProo]

Publicado originalmente por Valentine (Lunaticus):

Publicado originalmente por TheAlmightyProo:

take a look at the settings guide in the main forum page.

Where is this? On the actual Total War Forums or here on Steam? I don't see it on Steam, drop a link?

Ah, my bad. It was stickied but not where it was anymore. Here you go.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3185737486649434921/

[Ben]

I used to play on my laptop without any problem and I was using 30 mods or something. End turns were fine, only massive battles who lagged a bit around 30 fps, usually had 50 fps.
You should be just fine!

MSI GL65 Leopard
- Intel Core i7-10750H 6-Core Processor 12M Cache, 2.60GHz
· RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
· 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) 144Hz Thin Bezel IPS
· 16GB (2x 8GB) 2666MHz DDR4 RAM

[zippysmokes]

Publicado originalmente por TheAlmightyProo:

I'd add, further to intenselygoodtime's comment...

Might help for WH2, certainly will for WH3... take a look at the settings guide in the main forum page. Much performance can be gained for little loss by lowering or cutting settings that take far more than they add. It may also help to cap fps a tad under whatever average you find (with or without tweaking settings) to mitigate the extent and frequency of under load fps drops deeper into the game. You'll be able to run it fine with those specs @1080p, especially with some tweaking, but it'll take whatever spare your specs have to give.

As for the CPU spec re 2.7 GHz, that's just the base frequency. For anything more demanding than day to day stuff it'll boost itself to more than enough (somewhere between 3.5-4.7GHz depending on number of cores used) for this game/series, so no worries.

What model laptop is it btw?

ah thats great dude cheers i just wanted to know for sure , and its an acer nitro 5

[zippysmokes]

thanks everyone ,thats put my mind at ease im way behind on the total war games and i wasnt sure if i had the power or not for the newer ones ,yea i will probably get an external ssd too and see if that boosts me up a little, cheers

[zippysmokes]

Publicado originalmente por intenselygoodtime:

YES YOU CAN!
I just bought two new laptops with that EXACT spec for my kids, and after I uninstalled all the tons of MSI-installed bloat-ware (including Norton and a million language packs), ran all Windows Updates, and then updated all drivers, TWWH1 ran at Ultra for 78 FPS in Battle and over 90FPS in Campaign.

That's with zero tweaking. The first thing I usually turn down is shadows (I find them useless and distracting in MOST games), and I'll likely reduce reflections and FXAA a bit.

Just fair warning: IF you want to play all 3 games together, with all DLC, you will need to buy & install a 2nd SSD just for that. Your main 512GB will already be 1/3 consumed (at least) by the OS and reserved space.

yea i will turn off shadows and see how i get on ,thats much more reassuring to know thanks

[Ben]

Publicado originalmente por zippysmokes:

thanks everyone ,thats put my mind at ease im way behind on the total war games and i wasnt sure if i had the power or not for the newer ones ,yea i will probably get an external ssd too and see if that boosts me up a little, cheers

You can also find videos explaining what to get rid off in the options to get a nice boost.

[intenselygoodtime]

Kind-of related: Disabling Anti-Aliasing completely in TWWH3 along with V-Sync stopped the Benchmarks from crashing. I hadn't been able to complete even one of the benchmarks since their latest update. (That is, not down to FXAA -- completely off instead.)

But that guide linked above by TheAlmightyProo is REALLY handy -- sure, it's for TWWH3, but the general concept of which things to turn off for the biggest FPS boost is generally consistent across games.

[zippysmokes]

Publicado originalmente por intenselygoodtime:

Kind-of related: Disabling Anti-Aliasing completely in TWWH3 along with V-Sync stopped the Benchmarks from crashing. I hadn't been able to complete even one of the benchmarks since their latest update. (That is, not down to FXAA -- completely off instead.)

But that guide linked above by TheAlmightyProo is REALLY handy -- sure, it's for TWWH3, but the general concept of which things to turn off for the biggest FPS boost is generally consistent across games.

ill do that from now on thanks