Can I Run Total War WARHAMMER III on My PC / Laptop?

Almost certainly yes at low settings. The official minimum is an Intel i3 or Ryzen 3, a GTX 900 or RX 400 series card (or Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics), and 6GB of RAM. Use the checker above to see whether you clear the minimum or the recommended tier, since the gap between them is fairly large in this game.

It's the official recommended figure and it's enough for the base campaign and most battles. It's not enough to keep the big Immortal Empires campaign comfortable in the late game, where usage regularly climbs past 16GB. If you're buying RAM specifically for this game, get 16GB.

It's not a hard requirement, but it should be. Immortal Empires streams campaign data mid-turn, and on a mechanical hard drive that shows up as stutter and long load screens that an SSD mostly removes.

120GB for the base game. If you also own WARHAMMER I and/or II, the combined Immortal Empires campaign draws on their content too, so your real footprint across all three installed games can go well past 300GB.

No. The game runs uncapped once VSync is turned off in the video settings and, on Nvidia, in the control panel too. There's no in-game frame limiter, so if you want one you need to set it externally, and on some AMD setups the campaign map ignores a plain frame cap and needs Radeon Chill or RivaTuner instead.

Big battles are GPU-bound, and shadows, lighting, and unit detail are the most expensive settings. Drop shadows first, then unit size, before touching anything else. If you're on a card below the RTX 3060 Ti class, dropping the whole preset from Ultra to High or Medium recovers a large chunk of frame rate in one move.

End-of-turn processing for every AI faction runs on your CPU, not your GPU, and Immortal Empires can have 20 or more factions active at once. A faster single-thread CPU and more RAM shrink turn times; a better graphics card does nothing for this specifically.

DirectX 11. The game has never moved to DX12, which is also why it has no DLSS or FSR2 support, just a basic built-in resolution scaler.

No, single-player campaigns and battles play fine offline once the game is installed and activated through Steam or Epic. You only need a connection for multiplayer, the Steam Workshop, and any updates.

Both, but for different parts of the game. Battles are mostly GPU-bound; the campaign map, especially in Immortal Empires, is mostly CPU and RAM-bound. That's why the game includes two separate benchmarks, one for each.

The Battle benchmark runs a large-scale fight and stresses your graphics card. The Campaign benchmark runs turn processing on the world map and stresses your CPU and RAM instead. Run both if you want an accurate picture of your PC, since one alone won't tell you the whole story.

You need roughly an RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6700 XT, or better to hold a steady 60 fps at 1080p Ultra in real battles. Anything weaker either dips below 60 in big fights or needs to drop a settings tier.

It depends what's bothering you. If battles are choppy, the graphics card is the bottleneck. If campaign turns crawl or the map itself feels sluggish, it's the CPU and RAM, and a new GPU won't fix that.

You can play it. The RTX 3050 is at Total War WARHAMMER III's minimum, so keep to 1080p low to medium and lower a setting if it stutters. Roughly 40 to 45 fps at 1080p High; drop to Medium for the largest battles.

The GTX 1650 gets you in. It meets Total War WARHAMMER III's minimum, so low to medium at 1080p works, and turning a couple of things down keeps it steady. Roughly 35 fps at 1080p Medium, similar to the GTX 1060 6GB.

Yes, on modest settings. The GTX 1060 6GB meets what Total War WARHAMMER III needs at minimum, so 1080p low to medium is the sweet spot. About 35 fps at 1080p Medium; Ultra isn't realistic on this card.

Playable, yes. The RX 580 passes Total War WARHAMMER III's minimum bar, so aim for low to medium at 1080p and drop settings if the frame rate dips. Around 35 to 40 fps at 1080p Medium.

Plenty of power here. The RTX 4060 is above Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended tier, so high 1080p is smooth and 1440p is a fair target. Around 60 fps at 1080p Ultra and about 48 at 1440p Ultra.

Easily. With the RTX 3060 you are past Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended tier, which means high settings at 1080p and a genuine shot at 1440p. Around 52 fps at 1080p Ultra and about 40 at 1440p Ultra.

Yes, comfortably. The RTX 2060 sits at or above Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended card, so 1080p on high is smooth and 1440p is well within reach. About 50 fps at 1080p Ultra, close to a steady 60 in most battles.

The GTX 1660 gets you in. It meets Total War WARHAMMER III's minimum, so low to medium at 1080p works, and turning a couple of things down keeps it steady.

Yes, on modest settings. The GTX 1660 Super meets what Total War WARHAMMER III needs at minimum, so 1080p low to medium is the sweet spot. Around 45 fps at 1080p High; comfortable below Ultra.

For sure. The RX 6600 outpaces Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended card, leaving you high 1080p now and 1440p whenever you like. Around 48 to 52 fps at 1080p Ultra, just under the RTX 3060 Ti class.

Easily. With the GTX 1660 Ti you are past Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended tier, which means high settings at 1080p and a genuine shot at 1440p.

Yes, comfortably. The RTX 3060 Ti sits at or above Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended card, so 1080p on high is smooth and 1440p is well within reach. About 60 fps at 1080p Ultra, the tier where a locked 60 becomes realistic.

Yes, comfortably. The RTX 4050 sits at or above Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended card, so 1080p on high is smooth and 1440p is well within reach.

You can play it. The GTX 1050 Ti is at Total War WARHAMMER III's minimum, so keep to 1080p low to medium and lower a setting if it stutters.

Plenty of power here. The RTX 4070 is above Total War WARHAMMER III's recommended tier, so high 1080p is smooth and 1440p is a fair target. About 85 fps at 1080p Ultra, 65 at 1440p, and around 40 at 4K Ultra.

Yes, natively. Feral Interactive built a real Apple Silicon port that needs an M1 chip or newer, macOS 12.0.1 or later, 8GB of RAM, and about 125GB of storage. Intel-based Macs are not supported at all, no matter the specs.

Yes, there's a native Feral Interactive port built on Vulkan, with its own minimum (GTX 970 or RX 470) and recommended (GTX 1070 or RX 5700 XT with 8GB VRAM) requirements that are higher than the Windows Steam page.

Only Intel Iris Xe, which is the officially listed minimum GPU. Older or weaker integrated graphics, including basic Intel UHD chips, fall short and will struggle even at the lowest settings.

Not locally. A Chromebook's graphics hardware is well below what the game needs, so cloud streaming through a service like GeForce Now is the realistic option.

Yes, it's supported on GeForce Now, which is the easiest way to play it on a Chromebook, an older laptop, or a Mac that doesn't meet the native Apple Silicon requirement.

It runs, but Valve rates it Unsupported rather than Verified or Playable. You need to switch it to the Steam Linux Runtime compatibility layer or it can crash trying to load a campaign. With that done and settings on low-medium, expect around 35 fps in battles and the mid-20s on the campaign map.

It's not officially verified on these either, but both have a stronger APU than the Steam Deck and should land a bit ahead of the Deck's numbers with the same low-medium settings, roughly 40 to 45 fps in battles.

You'll want something in the RTX 3080, RTX 3090, or RX 6900 XT class, and even those don't hold a locked 60 fps at 4K Ultra in the largest battles. 4K is realistic if you're fine with the high 40s to low 50s or you drop a settings tier.

An RX 6800 XT class card is roughly where a locked 60 fps at 1440p Ultra becomes realistic. Cards around the RTX 3060 Ti to RTX 4070 range land in the 40s to 60s depending on battle size.

For most of the game, yes, at 1080p and even 1440p on High to Ultra. The largest Immortal Empires battles with huge unit counts and high shadow detail can push past 6GB at 1440p or 4K, so it's more of a limiter at higher resolutions than at 1080p.

Yes, at Low to Medium settings with the official minimum specs: an i3 or Ryzen 3, a GTX 900 or RX 400 series card, and 6GB of RAM. Expect small-to-medium battles to be playable and the largest Immortal Empires fights to need lowered unit counts.

No. There is no Xbox version of this game; it's a PC-only release on Steam and Epic Games Store.

No. Creative Assembly has never released a PlayStation version of Total War: WARHAMMER III.

No, and it's unlikely to arrive given the hardware gap. The Switch's chip is far below even the official minimum spec for this game.

Yes, it meets the official minimum and handles small to medium battles and the early campaign fine. Where it struggles is late-game Immortal Empires turn times with many factions active, since that workload leans heavily on single-thread CPU speed.

The most common fixes are updating your graphics driver, verifying the game files through Steam, and disabling overlays like Discord or GPU software while it loads. On AMD hardware, older Vulkan or DirectX drivers are a frequent cause of crashes specifically when loading into Immortal Empires.

No, it has neither DLSS nor a real FSR2/3 implementation. The built-in resolution scale option is closer to an early FSR 1.0 style upscaler, since the game runs on DirectX 11 and was never rebuilt for the newer upscaling tech.

No, it's a separate purchase. If you own the earlier two games as well, the free Immortal Empires update lets their factions and content combine into one giant campaign map, but WARHAMMER III on its own does not include them.

This is usually the AI turn processing taking a long time in a large Immortal Empires campaign, not a true freeze. Give it a minute on slower CPUs before assuming it's crashed, and if it truly hangs, check for outdated saves, corrupted mods, or a driver update, since all three are common causes.

No. It runs offline for single-player campaigns and battles once installed and activated through Steam or Epic. Some players see a brief connection check on launch, but that's account verification, not a constant online requirement.

If your card is strong but the game still feels sluggish, look at the campaign map and turn times rather than battle frame rate. That side of the game is CPU and RAM bound, so a fast GPU alone won't remove the lag.