Creative Assembly say they’re future proofing Total War: ATTILA with the ‘Extreme Quality’ setting in the game’s graphical options, which flicks on a number of demanding luxuries at 1440p. ‘No one will default to this’.
Also the ‘Recommended Spec’ is tied to 1080p on the ‘Quality’ setting for mid-range cards. PC specs for ATTILA are higher than Rome II because of the ”newer iteration of our TW Engine.”
”The “Recommended Spec” is not the spec that is required to run the game on full max quality settings at 1440p. It is a spec which we believe gives you a good experience of the game as we’d recommend it is played. If you have better hardware you will get better results,” posted the studio’s Nico CA.
▪ ‘Max Performance’ – integrated chipsets and older cards
▪ ‘Performance’ – low end cards
▪ ‘Quality’– mid range cards
▪ ‘Max Quality’ – high end cards
▪ ‘Extreme Quality’ – future cards – no card is set to this out of the box
”‘Extreme Quality’ also activates 4XMSAA, which will have a particularly big performance impact. Please note, that the ‘Extreme Quality’ setting is meant for future graphics cards, not for current gen. This is why it’s above Maximum Quality,” they continued.
”The Min and Rec specs are higher than ROME II, it is a new game that is going on two years more recent and is based on a newer iteration of our TW Engine. As a result it is more demanding, if you ran ROME II at a certain combination of settings, ATTILA will be different. If you have high end kit though, ATTILA will certainly look more impressive.”
”The way the game handles texture resolution has changed. In ROME II it was tied to the quality setting. In ATTILA it is based on available VRAM.”
The Total War series doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to being a lean mean optimised war machine, and Creative Assembly usually spend a great deal of time on subsequent patches tightening up performance. Within a year maybe the ‘Extreme Quality’ will be within reach for some.
Total War: ATTILA released on PC yesterday, February 17th. Check out our review of Hun’s debut.
