Total War: Warhammer

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Total War: Warhammer

Developers
	Creative Assembly
macOS (OS X)	Feral Interactive
Linux	Feral Interactive
Publishers
	Sega
OS X, Linux	Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows	May 24, 2016
Linux	November 22, 2016
macOS (OS X)	April 18, 2017
Reception
Metacritic	86
OpenCritic	86
IGDB	85
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS, Strategy, TBS
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 is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS, strategy and TBS game in the Total War: Warhammer series.

General information

Official forums

Official support page

Total War Center - A large fan site for the series with an active modding community

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Developer website
Epic Games Store
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Microsoft Store
Steam

All Steam versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	The game features extensive paid DLC; if you play only the base game, you will miss a substantial amount of overall content.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Blood for the Blood God
Bretonnia	Free.
Call of the Beastmen
Chaos Warriors
Grey Wizard	Free.
Grombrindal The White Dwarf	Free.
Isabella von Carstein	Free.
Jade Wizard	Free.
Krell	Free.
Norsca
Realm of The Wood Elves
The Grim and the Grave
The King and the Warlord
Wurrzag	Free.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Blood for the Blood God DLC is cosmetic only, in that it adds gore effects.
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
Steam	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer\Scripts\
Epic Games Launcher	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer\EOS\Scripts\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Total War Warhammer/preferences

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Steam	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer\Save_Games\
Epic Games Launcher	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer\EOS\Save Games\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Total War Warhammer/VFS/User/AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Warhammer/save_games/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

In-game basic video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Scaling is added with a patch, however you might get issues with fonts depending on in-game language
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Already borderless if windowed mode is set at native resolution
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Trilinear, and anisotropic filtering (2-16 samples).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, MSAA (x2, x4, x8)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Main Menu is locked to 30 fps, rest of the game is unlocked by default
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

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

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, speech, and effect sliders
Surround sound		5.1, 7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Co-op, Versus Multiplayer campaigns only support 2 players. In Custom Battles, up to 8 players can play at the same time.
Online play		8	Co-op, Versus Multiplayer campaigns only support 2 players. In Custom Battles, up to 8 players can play at the same time.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Totalwar Warhammer [DX11].

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12
OpenGL		Linux only.
Metal support

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

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo	Intel Core i5-4570
System memory (RAM)	3 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	35 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 5770 Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	AMD Radeon R9 270X Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.12.4
Processor (CPU)	Intel 2.0 GHz	Intel 3.3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	37 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 600 series AMD Radeon Rx 200 series Intel Iris Graphics 540 2 GB of VRAM	4 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 16.10 (64bit), SteamOS 2.0
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4130 3.4 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz	Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	29 GB	35 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti AMD Radeon R9 270 1 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 480 4 GB of VRAM

Intel graphics cards are not officially supported.

AMD graphics cards are not officially supported on SteamOS.

AMD graphics cards require the Mesa 13.0.1 driver compiled using LLVM 3.9 or newer.