Sadly, the launch is somewhat blighted by many players suffering serious performance problems.

Twarhammer 3 sees factions fighting over the remains of a dying bear god, for various reasons.

And the game’s a good’un.

Kislev soldiers riding polar bears fight forces of Chaos in a Total War: Warhammer 3 screenshot.

Also still to come are the official modding tools.

Those are probably a way out; hopefully we see some patches soon.

However, performance problems do not seem isolated to this combination of operating system and CPU.

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Numerous people with AMD CPUs are complaining about performance too.

The Known Issues post also acknowledges the commonly reported problem where alt-tabbing can crash the game.

For now, the devs suggest either running the game in windowed mode or just not alt-tabbing.

The resplendent ogre king in a screenshot of Total War: Warhammer 3’s Ogre Kingdoms DLC.

Total Warhammer 3 is out now onSteam,the Epic Games Store, and PC Game Pass.

Do be aware that the Total Warhammer series doesn’t share game and DLC access across storefronts.

Disclosure: RPS co-founder Alec Meer (RPS in peace) wrote on Twarhammer 3.