Playing a Total War game has always been a bit of an uphill battle on PC. With their detailed maps and densely-populated armies, they’re some of the most graphically-intensive games around today – and if you’ve read any of the But worry not, PC foot soldiers, as I’ve gone and hurled every last one of today’s Just before we charge into hundreds of very sharp spears, though, let’s remind ourselves of Their recommended spec, meanwhile, is aimed at those playing on High at 1920×1080, which Creative Assembly says should give you a frame rate between 45-55fps in the above scenarios. I really hope you enjoy it. Otherwise, you’re probably going to have to bite the bullet (or should that be But enough talk about settings.

Instead, the only other thing that produced the same kind of bump as switching off the SSAO was As a result, I think that’s probably going to be your lot on High – unless, that is, you don’t mind making do with a bit of I’ll be upfront. Adding TAA drops me to the 45-50 range. This is Total War Three Kingdoms Performance Benchmark, all ultra settings, TAA, frame rate at 1440p (2560x1440) resolution on 1080 GTX G1 all settings shown in the video. Just click the page numbers below or hop back up the page to the card of your choice. Very partial to JRPGs and the fetching of quests. Running at 90% with FXAA and no screen shadows enabled at 2560×1440, for example, took my frame rate up to an average of 55fps, which is pretty all right in my books, and way better than my original High figure of just 36fps. Let’s charge over to some of them there graphics cards.

Total War: Three Kingdoms PC graphics performance: The goal. This video tests the performance of various GPUs and CPUs in Total War: Three Kingdoms in order to see how optimized the game is. Rock Paper Shotgun and RPS are registered trade marks of ReedPop Limited. … Sure, skimping on environmental details like this allows the frame rate to stay nice and high, but it’s far from ideal. Performance is easily worse than Warhammer I at launch. A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. Enabling resolution scaling at 1080p does look a bit rough at the end of the day, but at 1440p it was a lot less noticeable.

Go have a lie down, Internet.® © 2020. Support RPS and get an ad-free site, extra articles, and free stuff! We won't share your email address with ANYONE, and we will only email you with updates on site news, reviews, and competitions and you can unsubscribe easily at any time.Playing at 1440p it reduces the need for TAA but it still does look slightly better. Stutters on campaign map, laggy mouse performance and blurry graphics are just things I experienced in a little over 2 hours of gameplay. As always, the aim here is to get you playing Total War: Three Kingdoms at 60fps at 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 4K. That’s a pretty tall order for some graphics cards, but the good news is that Creative Assembly have put a lot of work into making the game more performance-efficient this time round, … Multi-threading has improved, but the Beta DirectX 12 support that's available in the Total War: Warhammer series has been dropped, making this … Tagged with This simulates a massive fight between two opposing clans, showing each army rushing across a wide, open plain surrounding by forests and tall mountains while chucking massive great fire bombs at each other in between volleys of arrows. As a result, I’d say Medium is probably the minimum quality you should be aiming for here.High and Ultra settings, on the other hand, are likely to be where the real battles will be fought in Three Kingdoms, as it wasn’t until I got up to the It may not be “as visually clean as TAA”, say CA, but when dropping down to FXAA saw a boost of almost 10fps when I re-ran the battle benchmark with my GTX 1060 on Ultra at 1920×1080, I think I’ll take those slightly ‘dirtier’ lines, thanks – especially if it means an average frame rate of 51fps instead of 43fps. Unfortunately, only the FXAA trick can be applied to the other quality presets, as SSAO is already turned off on High, and its Texture Filtering is set to just Anisotropic x4. Click the links below to see how each graphics card fared. As a result, the speeds I’ve laid out in the links above should be broadly representative of what you’ll see in both types of scenario.

So i'll stick with no TAA. Subscribing to the OC3D newsletter will keep you up-to-date This helps maintain a certain level of quality when you’re getting stuck in with Total War’s big battlefields, but I’d argue that other settings such as Terrain Detail and Grass Detail are just as important when it comes to keeping Three Kingdoms looking its best.As you can see below, for example, the game’s Low preset looks like your warriors are charging across a field of Vaseline when the camera’s zoomed out, which just looks a bit odd when all your soldiers are detailed up to the nines. Find more information Katharine writes about all the bits that go inside your PC so you can carry on playing all those lovely games we like talking about so much.