A Total War Saga: Troy PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

PC System Requirements and Graphical Options 

The Total War franchise has always been designed with scalability in mind, allowing PC gamers to play Creative Assembly’s latest war games on laptops, and gaming PCs both old and new. 

Thanks to these efforts, all PC gamers would be able to play A Total War Saga: Troy on their systems, provided you are willing to play the game at its low settings on mobile systems ancient gaming PCs. 

MINIMUM:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 GHz – Intel i7 8550U
Memory: 4 GB RAM*
Graphics: GTX 460 1GB – HD 5770 1GB – Intel UHD Graphics 620
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 26 GB available space
*Additional Notes: 6GB Memory if using integrated GPU

RECOMMENDED:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 64 Bit
Processor: Intel i5-6600 – Ryzen 5 2600X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 970 – R9 270X 2GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 26 GB available space

An offshoot of Warhammer?   

When we started playing A Total War Saga: Troy, we noted that the game lacked TAA as a graphical option, a feature which was added to the franchise with Total War: Three Kingdoms, a fact which has lead us to believe that A Total War Saga: Troy does not utilise the latest version of Creative Assembly’s Warscape Engine. 

Feature-wise, A Total War Saga: Troy appears to be an offshoot of Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer engine build, featuring many of the same mechanics and graphical traits as the Total War Warhammer series. This is not a bad thing and is something that’s common amongst Total War Saga titles. A Total War Saga; Thrones of Britannia used the Total War: Attila engine, which itself wasn’t the newest Total War engine of that time. 

The nature of Total War Saga games demands a tighter focus and a shortened development cycle. This means that fewer resources are focused on engine-level upgrades, and more effort is focused on core mechanics and gameplay. Engine upgrades can wait for the next full Total War release. 

Graphical Settings

PC gamers will have more than enough settings to bring their systems to their knees or run A Total War Saga: Troy on even the most mediocre of gaming systems. The game even has settings that stretch beyond the game’s Ultra preset, offering gamers Extreme Unit sizes and 8x MSAA if their system has enough CPU and graphics horsepower. 

Most PC gamers should settle for Troy’s high preset and alter their settings from there, with the game’s low preset being best left for older gaming systems and laptop users. The game also has three benchmarks for players to judge their system performance, with two focusing on real-time battles while the other is focused on campaign gameplay.