Greetings TWC members!
This thread is going to be the 4th iteration of TWC exclusive Total War benchmarking to help you to find out what you get and expect for your bucks.
Reminder: It is not a thread for hardware advice. If you are looking for this I would like to pass you on to more specific thread by HigoChumbo over here.
So why benchmarking games instead just playing them?
Some think benchmarking is no good but for some few those enjoy putting all their eggs (not guts) in one basket or simply showing off other people .
This can be the case but nevertheless this thread should not be considered to be a place for nerds only, having the most potent hardware around, but should be also a place for all others having weaker and more common hardware setups. Also their results are much more important, because they are quite the majority of common of Total War players.
That said: Benchmarking can be fun for everyone regardless the hardware setup you have, to compare your individual performance to others, and often enough find improvements.
As the game is still unreleased and also the preparations for this thread will need some time to setup worthy comparisons I hope you can forgive me posting this as a placeholder.
Here are some quite vague benchmarks I've found for Warhammer, but I am confident that the ones we'll gather here will be more meaningful as they were with Shogun 2 (post #5 and #6), Rome 2 (post #10) and especially with this specific thread dedicated to Attila.
As always I will try to find the easiest way possible for everyone to participate so it shall and hopefully will not fail just because you aren't a computer expert.
Have a look at this thread again in a couple of days for detailed instructions. If you are willing to participate or interested into the results don't forget to subscribe.
thread changelog:
02/23/2016 initial post, placeholder, benchmark announcement for Warhammer
06/01/2016 cosmetical changes
09/05/2016 benchmarking rules
09/05/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX11: alQamar (Sandy Bridge)
09/05/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX12: alQamar (Sandy Bridge)
09/09/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX11: revan.be
09/09/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX12: revan.be
10/16/2016 Updated driver section with AMD, Intel and Nvidia drivers
10/16/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX11: Spartan IV
10/16/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX12: Spartan IV
12/26/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX11: alQamar (Kaby Lake)
12/26/2016 Updated PC results section with user submissions DX12: alQamar (Kaby Lake)
12/26/2016 Updated driver section with AMD, Intel and Nvidia drivers