| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Year of construction: 17 February 2022
Genre:RTS
developer: CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
Publisher: SEGA, Feral Interactive
Total War: WARHAMMER 3 is the epic and dramatic conclusion to a trilogy of strategy games. Gather your troops and enter the Kingdom of Chaos – an abode of unimaginable horrors, where the fate of the entire world will be decided.
Away from the familiar world with its pitiful wars, a new dimension awaits you, where only dark magic rules: the Kingdom of Chaos. This terrible place is incomprehensible to mere mortals. His lands promise tremendous power, but are fraught with pernicious temptations. Temptations that tarnish the soul. And they consume it.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API |
Total War Warhammer 3 supported Windows 7/8/10/11.
The priority and main graphics API for Total War Warhammer 3 is DX11.
| GAME ENGINE |
Total War Warhammer 3 is based on the Warscape+ game engine. Warscape is a game engine developed by the British company The Creative Assembly for internal use in its Total War games. Warscape is intended for use only on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The first game to use Warscape was Empire: Total War, the fifth game in the Total War series, and was released on March 3, 2009.
Beginning with 2004’s Rome: Total War, Total War games used the Total War engine, which was used until 2007’s Medieval II: Total War – Kingdoms. After this, it was decided to create a new engine – “Warscape”, the first game on which was “Empire: Total War” in 2009. During the development of Napoleon: Total War, the engine was “well polished,” Craig Laycock of The Creative Assembly told Armchair General. However, during the development of Total War: Shogun 2, the engine was further redesigned and significantly improved. The main innovation was support for DirectX 11 and some AMD technologies: Eyefinity and CrossFireX.
“Total War: Shogun 2” was promoted by AMD as part of a marketing campaign for HD 6xxx series video cards as a game that actively uses the capabilities of DirectX 11. However, a few days before the game’s release, it became known that it would not contain a DX11 mode. The developers stated that they did not have time to finalize this mode, and it will be released later as a patch. The heavily modified Warscape engine in Total War: Rome 2 made it possible to view exotic cities in the smallest detail, and the new camera makes it possible to observe the battlefield from any angle.
In Total War Warhammer, the developers have moved away from the 32-bit engine and the game runs in 64-bit mode by default, meaning it will no longer be limited by two gigabytes of allocated RAM.
| SETTINGS |
Total War Warhammer 3 has a wide range of graphic settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings.
| QUALITY MODES |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in Total War Warhammer 3 are in many ways similar to previous games in the series:
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z97 GIGABYTE GA-X99-Gaming 7 WIFI GIGABYTE GA-AX370-Gaming 5 GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI MSI MPG Z590 GAMING CARBON WIFI Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero |
| Multimedia equipment |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL15 ZEN1 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 ZEN2 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 ZEN3 32 GB DDR4 4400 CL18 Comet Lake 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Rocket Lake 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL42 Alder Lake |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 511.65 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.2.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 maximum default graphics quality settings with unlimited video memory.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX video cards are provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| GPU TEST |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920×1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070s.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon VII or GeForce RTX 2070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.
When resolved 3840×2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce RTX 3080.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 3840×2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the schedule at the request of the reader.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 7 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920×1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 9 5900X or Core i 5 11600K.
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 0, and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i 7 10700K.
- Very high
GameGPU
The game can load up to 16 streams. The game uses 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 12900K with 32 GB DDR5 5400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 11 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte .
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