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Platform: PC

Total War: Three Kingdoms – Minimum and Recommended System Requirements

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Published: May 10, 2019 03:43 pm

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With the new Total War: Three Kingdoms on the horizon, it’s time to take a look at exactly how beefy your system will need to be to run it.

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Total War: Three Kingdoms is due to release on May 23, so now is a good time to check how well your PC will be able to run the game. The game will bring the usual blend of diplomacy, strategy, and epic battles to a particularly fractured period of Chinese history, and it will be up to you to attempt to unite the country under a single banner.

Developers Creative Assembly has been kind enough to provide players with a range of different specs, and what you can expect to achieve with them. Large battles in Total War games can be quite challenging, so it is very helpful that they have listed the expected results during battles containing up to 42 units between both sides.

There is some good news as well, as this game will come with Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) instead of Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) due to its increased performance benefits. They will be keeping Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing for people who need a more performance efficient AA option, though it lacks the visual cleanness of TAA.

This does mean that Three Kingdoms will not be supporting multi-GPU rendering, as TAA is not compatible with it. With those little details out of the way, let’s have a loot at the minimum and recommended specs.

PC MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS (INTEGRATED)

  • Expected around 25-35 FPS on the campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs. 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Low,” running at 1280×720
  • Operating System: Windows 7 64 Bit
  • Processor: i7-8550U 1.80GHz
  • RAM: 6GB
  • Video Card: Intel UHD Graphics 620

PC MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS (DISCRETE)

  • Expected around 25-35 FPS on the campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs. 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Low,” running at 1280×720
  • Operating System: Windows 7 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00Ghz
  • RAM: 4GB
  • Video Card: GTX 650 Ti | HD 7850 1GB VRAM
  • Expected around 45-55 FPS on the campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs. 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to “High,” running at 1920×1080
  • Operating System: Windows 10 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel i5-6600 | Ryzen 5 2600X
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Video Card: GTX 970 | R9 Fury X 4GB VRAM

PC 60 FPS+ SPECIFICATIONS

  • Expect 60 FPS+ on the campaign map and in a 1v1, 21 units vs. 21 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra,” running at 1920×1080
  • Operating System: Windows 10 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ Intel i7-8700K
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
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Aidan O'Brien
Aidan O'Brien has been playing games for over three decades and has been writing about them for five years. When not getting stomped on by the creations of Hidetaka Miyazaki, he enjoys spending too much time in Warframe, Destiny 2 and any other ARPG with a solid grind. When not writing, he is doing inexplicable behind-the-scenes magic for GAMURS Group.