Published: August 31, 2017 | Source: Creative Assembly Press Release | Author: Mark Campbell

Creative Assembly releases Total War: Warhammer 2’s PC system requirements

Creative Assembly has officially revealed Total War Warhammer II’s PC system requirements, giving PC gamers some basic guidelines for how well the game will perform.

The company has also detailed some of the graphical improvements that will be coming to the game, including improved Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, a new volumetric fog system, a new “sharpening filter” and impressive effects for “wet-look” surfaces.

Sadly, Creative Assembly has not detailed any changes to the game’s DirectX 12 version, which remains as a “beta” option for the original Total War: Warhammer.

Creative Assembly has also confirmed that Total War: Warhammer II is the most pre-ordered Total War game to date, showcasing just how much confidence fans have in the company’s latest product.

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 has also quoted a 60FPS @ 1080P spec alongside the minimum and recommended specs below.

Below are creative Assembly’s PC system requirements for Total War Warhammer II, which showcase how scalable this game can be on PC.

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
GBInstall size: 60 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB | AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB @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.

All graphical settings in Total War: Warhammer II can be manually customised if the player wishes. Below is a list of the settings used in each of the game’s default graphical presets.

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

Total War: Warhammer II will release on PC on September 28th.

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