⚡ Best Settings for FPS & Performance

The honest pre-launch answer: meet the official recommended tier — a 6-core CPU like a Ryzen 5 5600X or i5-11600K, 16 GB of RAM, an 8 GB GPU such as an RTX 3070 or RX 6750 XT, and the game on an SSD. This is a thousands-of-units RTS, so the processor carries as much of the load as the graphics card, and the developers explicitly recommend an SSD. A verified per-setting breakdown lands after the November 10, 2026 launch.

The spec sheet below is the developer-published baseline from the Steam store page. Read it as a scaling ladder: the minimum tier targets playable frame rates in typical battles, while the recommended tier exists for the game's signature moments — thousands of simultaneous units reshaping a continent-sized battlefield in real time.

Massive-scale RTS games stress systems differently from shooters. When thousands of units path, fight and die at once, the simulation itself becomes the workload — and that work lands on your processor. This is why the recommended spec pairs a 6-core CPU with a mid-range-by-comparison 8 GB GPU: in the biggest engagements, CPU headroom is what keeps frame rates from collapsing while the battlefield burns. If you are choosing between a GPU and CPU upgrade before launch, and you already meet the GPU minimum, the CPU is the safer bet for this specific game.

The jump from 8 GB to 16 GB of RAM between the tiers mirrors the CPU story — more units on screen means more state to hold. Storage is the other quiet multiplier: the official notes recommend an SSD for the 50 GB install, and on a game where battles reload large maps and stream entire theaters, drive speed shows up as loading time and texture pop-in rather than frame rate. A SATA SSD transforms the experience; an NVMe drive removes the question entirely.

• Day one: start at the recommended preset if you meet the recommended tier, otherwise the minimum preset — then adjust by watching frame rates in the biggest battles, not the quiet ones.
• Resolution first, effects second: dropping render scale or resolution protects frame rate more cheaply than cutting unit detail — and unit detail is part of what makes the scale readable.
• Keep an eye on this page: the full settings-menu breakdown with measured FPS impact publishes after launch, verified in-game rather than guessed.

A settings guide is only as honest as its measurements, so the per-setting breakdown — unit detail, shadow quality, effects, zoom-out rendering load — lands after the November 10, 2026 launch, tested on the official tiers rather than guessed from marketing. The plan for that update: frame-rate impact per setting at minimum and recommended hardware, the settings that cost the most FPS in thousand-unit battles specifically, and the visual trade-offs each cut buys you. Until the game ships, the two levers this page can verify are hardware (the official tiers above) and expectations (a thousands-of-units RTS plays differently from a 100-unit one at the same frame rate). If you are buying hardware before launch, the requirements guide ranks the upgrades that matter for this game specifically.