Total War: Warhammer III – Best Settings (FPS + Visuals) for Mid Range GPU

Improve Performance on a 4GB VRAM card!

Best Settings (FPS + Visuals) for Mid Range GPU (GTX 1650, 970, 1050 Ti, Etc)

Note: Credit goes to alpharender33

Settings Recommended

• Anti-Aliasing – FXAA
• Texture Filter – 16x
• VFX – Low
• Tree – Medium
• Unit Detail – High
• Depth of Field – Off
• Screen Space Refection – Off
• Lighting – Low
• Corpse Lifespan – Permanent
• Texture Quality – High (VERY IMPORTANT)
• Shadow – Medium
• Grass detail – Medium
• Terrain – Low (VERY IMPORTANT)
• Building – Medium
• Unit Size -Large
• Porthole quality – 2D (VERY IMPORTANT)
• Fog – Low

The other 8 options which have checkbox (Unlimited Video memory, V-sync, so on…) – Check Everything except Proximity Fading

I get stable 28-40 FPS on Campaign and Battles (Except Cathay Maps which are very performance intensive)

Notes

• 1. If you change any of the very important labelled settings, the game will run out of memory and start lagging on 4Gb Vram.
• 2. Turning off shadows ruins the visuals imo, shadows medium + ssao + screen space shadows are pretty much essential for the game to look decent at this artstyle.
• 3. For me 3D portholes drop down FPS by almost 15 fps, also adds a lot of lag when selecting armies and going into diplomacy. For low end cards I think it is good scarifice, considering they are already 99-100% taxed due to broken vfx right now.
• 4. The game actually runs out of VRAM on a 4GM card pretty quickly and doesn’t even tell you that it has. If it runs out the game loses 30-40% FPS due to constant reloading of textures. Medium texture look quite bad and the only way to play on high textures is to use the above settings from what I have tested.

My Specs – GTX 1650, 16 GB Ram, Ryzen 3550H