Total War: Warhammer III

Total War: Warhammer III

Developers
	Creative Assembly
macOS (OS X)	Feral Interactive
Linux	Feral Interactive
Publishers
	Sega
OS X, Linux	Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows	February 17, 2022
macOS (OS X)	May 5, 2022
Linux	June 16, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	86
OpenCritic	86
IGDB	78
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	Cosmetic, Finite spend, Unlock
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select
Genres	RTS, Strategy, TBS
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Total War: Warhammer

Total War: Warhammer
Subseries of Total War
Subseries of Warhammer
Total War: Warhammer	2016
Total War: Warhammer II	2017
Total War: Warhammer III	2022

Total War: Warhammer III is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS, strategy and TBS game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega.

The game was initially announced for PC during early February 2021 with a placeholder release date for later that year. In September 2021, the game has been delayed to early 2022, with the release date of February 17th, 2022, being announced on November 4th.

The PC version of the game is available for Windows, Linux and OS X and is distributed through Epic Games Store, Steam and Microsoft Store. It features ultra-widescreen support, high frame rates, key remapping and surround sound support.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Choice between EGS or Steam key.
Epic Games Store
Humble Store
Microsoft Store
Steam

All Windows versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

All owned DLCs from the first and second game will be available on this game as well.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	The game is expected to feature extensive post-release DLC, much like its predecessors; if you play only the base game, you will miss a substantial amount of overall content.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Ogre Kingdoms	Available for free to Xbox Game Pass for PC players from February 17th, 2022 to February 24th, 2022. Included with pre-orders and first-week purchases.
Champions of Chaos
Blood for the Blood God III
Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs
Shadows of Change

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Confirmed future DLC, Blood for the Blood God, is cosmetic only as it will add gore effects, but if you own the same DLC for Total War: Warhammer or Total War: Warhammer II, you do not need to rebuy it.
Finite spend	Each DLC can be only bought once, putting a cap on total spend.
Unlock	You get a set of races in the base game, but the remainder of the races are locked behind real-money transactions.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\scripts\
Epic Games Launcher	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\EOS\scripts\
Microsoft Store	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\GDK\scripts\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.local/share/feral-interactive/Total War WARHAMMER III/SaveData/Steam Saves($SteamID)/local/Warhamme3/scripts

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\save_games\ %APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\save_games_multiplayer\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.local/share/feral-interactive/Total War WARHAMMER III/SaveData/Steam Saves($SteamID)/local/Warhamme3/save_games

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Main video settings

Advanced video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Hor+ gameplay. In-game cutscenes are Hor+ letterboxed. FMV cutscenes are stretched.
4K Ultra HD			UI scaling available (only enabled at 4K or higher), set to 200% by default.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, TAA and TAA High available.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia colour profiles available.

Input

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings

Gameplay settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Options for discrete 5.1 and 7.1 surround.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese				Set the "Audio Language" to Mandarin.
Traditional Chinese				Set the "Audio Language" to Mandarin.
Czech
French				Advisor only.
German				Advisor only.
Italian				Advisor only.
Korean
Polish				Advisor only.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Advisor only. CA originally announced they'll be dropping Russian language support for future DLCs for the game starting with Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs, but with the announcement of Shadows of Change they went back on this decision after the response from the community.
Spanish				Advisor only.
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play		Co-op, Versus
Online play		Co-op, Versus

Issues fixed

Inconsistent framerates and/or stuttering with 12th generation Intel CPUs on Windows 10

This issue has been fixed by the 1.0.1 update.

Create a script file to redefine how the CPU runs the game
Navigate to the configuration files location. Create a new text file named user.script. Open the user.script file and add the following lines, taking care to include all punctuation and spaces: HYBRID_CPUS_TREAT_ALL_CORES_UNIFORMLY true; number_of_threads 5;, save the file and run the game. If this does not help, the developer recommends upgrading to Windows 11.

Game is stuck on the loading screen and/or text does not appear in the Microsoft Store version

Manually edit the preferences script to set the default language

Navigate to the configuration files location for the Microsoft Store version. Create or open the preferences.script file. Set the following lines: language_text ""; language_audio ""; to language_text "en"; language_audio "en";. Save the file and run the game. This issue seems isolated to players running the game in the Russian, Polish, or Italian languages. You can temporarily swap your game to English by using the fix above to bypass the issue and progress to playing the game.

Game freezes in Multiplayer lobby on the Microsoft Store version

Change profile picture in your Xbox Live profile
Navigate to profile in PC Game Pass desktop app by clicking on profile picture in upper right corner. Click on "View Profile" Click on "Change player picture" in top middle section. Click on a profile picture other than the currently selected on. Click Save and run the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Vulkan		Linux only.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	Epic Online Services

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel i3 series processor Ryzen 3 series processor	Intel i5 series processor Ryzen 5 series processor
System memory (RAM)	6 GB (8 GB if using integrated GPU)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	120 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GTX 900 series AMD RX 400 series Intel Iris Xe Graphics DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMD RX 5600 XT

A 64-bit operating system is required.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	12.0.1
Processor (CPU)	Apple M1 8 Core
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	125 GB
Video card (GPU)	Apple M1 7 Core

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4130 3.4 GHz AMD Ryzen equivalent	Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz AMD Ryzen equivalent
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	125 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB of VRAM
Other	Nvidia driver version 470.xx or later required (tested), AMD Mesa driver version 21.0.3 or later required (tested), Intel GPUs are not supported at the time of release.

A 64-bit operating system is required.