At release, many players of TW Warhammer 3 are struggling with bugs and crashes. We have some solutions for you
However, the release is overshadowed by technical problems: Many players complain about crashes, bad performance and other technical problems. If you are also affected: The developers already have first solutions to the problems, which we show you in this article.
Technical problems cause player rage
Shortly after the release there were the first negative Steam reviews, which have become more and more throughout the day: Of around 3,500 reviews, a full 51 percent are negative. If you take a look at the (Steam page of TW: Warhammer 3), you mainly read criticism of the technical state of the game:
- Even on strong systems there are performance problems.
- Graphics card, CPU and RAM are not fully utilised by the game.
- Falls for no apparent reason.
- Poor optimisation.
However, these are not the sole reason for the extremely low Steam ratings. As industry expert Daniel Ahmad explains on Twitter, review bombing by Chinese gamers is also behind this.
Warhammer III was set to continue the same trend with strong pre-orders from Chinese players that access the international version of Steam
However, some of the core players have been upset by how Creative Assembly and Chinese game live streaming site DouYu handled promotion
– Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 17, 2022
Their problem: Creative Assembly distributed pre-release versions in the run-up to the release to too many streamers who have no idea at all about Total War games. Since these have already played through the complete game in the last few weeks without regard to spoilers, many fans of the series now feel cheated.
True to the motto: I am a hardcore fan and pre-ordered for a lot of money, why were streamers without a clue allowed to play through it for free now? They are therefore now letting the developers feel their anger on Steam.
What you can do if you have problems
If you are one of the players who suffer from poor performance or crashes, developer Creative Assembly has some solutions in the Total War forum. Since these are only available in English so far, we will translate the relevant problems into German for you here:
1: In rare cases the game can become unstable and crash when switching between active windows in full screen mode with Alt + Tab.
Solution: Switch from full screen mode to windowed mode or simply avoid Alt + Tab while the game is open.
2: In combat, flying monsters that are meant to attack monstrous ground enemies may have difficulty landing and effectively attacking their target.
Solution: Use the new button “Landing” to make the flying mon
3: Some PCs with Windows 10 and 12th generation Intel CPUs (Alderlake) may experience inconsistent frame rates and/or stuttering.
Solution 1: Upgrade your operating system from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Solution 2: Add an entry in the game files.
- Navigates to the game’s “Scripts” folder. To do this, open an Explorer window and enter the following in the address bar.
- For the Steam version: %appdata%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\scripts
- For the Windows Store or Gamepass version: %appdata%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\GDK\scripts
- For the Epic Store version: %appdata%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\EOS\scripts
- Right-click in the window and select New-☻Text Document
- Name this document user.script (or user.script.txt if you have Windows set to show file extensions)
- Open the file user.script and insert the following lines, making sure to include all punctuation marks and spaces:
HYBRID_CPUS_TREAT_ALL_CORES_UNIFORMLY true;
number_of_threads 5; ]
- Save the file and run the game.
4: When starting the game in offline mode for the first time, you cannot access the content of the Ogre Kingdoms DLC.
Solution: Make sure you are online when you first start the game. If you are offline before verifying access, you will not be able to play as an ogre.
Furthermore, the developers have announced that they already have these and other issues on their radar and are working on a first update. As soon as there is news and a possible date for a patch, we will of course let you know.
