Total War: WARHAMMER II System Specs

Total War: WARHAMMER II

Lori.Forder
August 31 2017

Released in under a month on the 28th September, we are pleased to say that at this point Total War: WARHAMMER II is the most pre-ordered Total War game to date.

 

“We’re in the final stage of development now and very excited by the comments coming out of our closed testing and mock reviews,” said Rob Bartholomew, Brand Director, “loads of love for the new features, races and the sheer volume of gameplay. Great to see that expectation reflected in the number of pre-orders being placed, it really helps motivate us for that final push.”

 

With the game now nearing release, system specs and a range of new graphical features to enrich players’ experiences in the New World can be revealed.

 

These include:

 

  • Improved Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
  • New volumetric fog system which thickens the air, producing god-ray effects
  • New sharpening filter
  • Impressive wet-look surfaces, appropriate to certain models and model features

 

Continuing the series trend for optimisation and performance improvement, the second game in CA’s fantasy-strategy trilogy will be playable on a wide range of PC systems. To achieve the gameplay gold-standard of 60FPS, Creative Assembly have also quoted a 60FPS @ 1080P spec alongside the minimum and recommended specs below.

 

 

PC Recommended Specifications:

 

Expected around 45-55 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “High”, running at 1920×1080

 

Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4570 3.20GHz

RAM: 8 GB

Install size: 60 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @ 1080p

 

 

PC Minimum Specifications:

 

Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Low”, running at 1280×720

 

Operating System: Windows 7 64Bit

Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz

RAM: 4GB/5GB*

Install size: 60 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @ 720p

*PC integrated graphics chipsets, e.g. Intel HD series, will require 5GB system RAM

 

 

PC 60fps+ Specifications:

 

Expected 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra”, running at 1920×1080

 

Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz

RAM: 8 GB

Install size: 60 GB

Video Card: Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB

 

 

Please note: all systems perform differently. The framerates above are based on PCs using the quoted specs with fresh OS installs, no major background programs running, and should be taken as a guide rather than an absolute.

 

Total War: WARHAMMER II is still in development and undergoing optimisation and compatibility testing and these specs are subject to change.

 

 

Total War: WARHAMMER II graphical presets details

 

All settings may be manually customised, and full Anti-Aliasing is available if desired, however these are the settings automatically applied when selecting a preset:

 

Setting Name Low Medium High Ultra
Direct X DX11 DX11 DX11 DX11
Anti-aliasing Off Off Off FXAA
Texture Filtering Trilinear Anisotropic 4x Anisotropic 8x Anisotropic 16x
Texture Quality Low Medium High Ultra
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Off Off Off On
Depth of Field Off Off Off Off
Screen Space Reflections Off Off Off Off
Unit Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Building Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Shadow Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Tree Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Grass Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Water Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Unit Size Small Medium Large Ultra
VFX Detail Low Medium High Ultra
Terrain Detail Low Medium High Ultra
V-Sync Off Off Off Off
Vignette Off Off Off Off
Proximity Fading On On On On
Fog Low Low High High
Resolution Scale 100% 100% 100% 100%
UI Scale 100% 100% 100% 100%
Unlimited Video memory Off Off Off Off
Porthole quality 2D 3D 3D 3D