Playing a Total War game has always been a bit of an uphill battle on PC. With their detailed maps and densely-populated armies, they’re some of the most graphically-intensive games around today – and if you’ve read any of the graphics card reviews I’ve done here at RPS, you’ll know that Total War: Warhammer II is one of the regular games I use for benchmarking. Well, now we have a new big Total War in the form of Total War: Three Kingdoms, and man alive it’s one fierce opponent on the old graphics performance front.
But worry not, PC foot soldiers, as I’ve gone and hurled every last one of today’s best graphics cards (plus a couple of oldies) into battle to see what kind of performance you can expect from Total War: Three Kingdoms, as well as how to get the best settings possible to help bring that elusive frame rate of 60fps within reach. Together, we are stronger. Now we fight!