my friend plays with lowest possible settings and says that's not much of a difference (in quality)

I don't know if this is possible, but most games have a great improvement if you set off shadows.

Try to set the UDK.exe in your NVidia Control Panel if you had such a graphic card.
That helps me. Before that, the CPU has to manage the GPU work and FPS are drop down every Match. (excuse the horrible english ;) )

Im going to copy and paste Sir Pink's instruction he gave me.


1)
wK | Sir_Pink: http://www.chivalrythegame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10105
wK | Sir_Pink: click the skyrim link that thread
wK | Sir_Pink: click the green download button
wK | Sir_Pink: scroll down click the blue text that says this
wK | Sir_Pink: Optimizer Texures 083e 27,868 unique downloads 50,565 downloads 412kb size Use download manually
wK | Sir_Pink: make a new folder on your desktop
wK | Sir_Pink: put the zip file inside the folder

Run Ordenador - follow guidlines at http://gyazo.com/c55aae43703c5014742d41c22f2336ec

2)
wK | Sir_Pink: now access your chivalry folder from your documents section
wK | Sir_Pink: Documents\My Games\Chivalry Medieval Warfare\UDKGame\Config
wK | Sir_Pink: once there open this ini file
wK | Sir_Pink: UDKEngine.ini
wK | Sir_Pink: find these 3 commands (all 3 clumbed together) make them look like mine
-http://gyazo.com/cd0c984f7d0aea863894248b418c7500

3)
wK | Sir_Pink: in the same folder path we need to edit another ini file
wK | Sir_Pink: Documents\My Games\Chivalry Medieval Warfare\UDKGame\Config
wK | Sir_Pink: UDKSystemSettings.ini
wK | Sir_Pink: keep scrolling down until you get to a gap and see [SystemSettingsBucket1]
http://gyazo.com/61b8bf13101d0d77d7cbaeec78c58ae7
wK | Sir_Pink: see the command i have highlighted above systemsettingsbucket 1?
wK | Sir_Pink: has to be this one - there are duplicates of this same command in the file

4)
wK | Sir_Pink: go to start
wK | Sir_Pink: control panel
wK | Sir_Pink: http://gyazo.com/c3964671f6e7605e07303b2c6e3a45a5
wK | Sir_Pink: click system security
wK | Sir_Pink: click power options
wK | Sir_Pink: make sure your power is on high performance

5)
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk
wK | Sir_Pink: click the free version button
wK | Sir_Pink: you have more than enough, we are going to make you a 4GB ramdisk
wK | Sir_Pink: under the load/save tab
wK | Sir_Pink: http://gyazo.com/2500d380545a9a9879fa44f51a2098eb
wK | Sir_Pink: now go to the settings tab
wK | Sir_Pink: http://gyazo.com/465c460ba45084b63701d854b85b0356
wK | Sir_Pink: make your settings look like that
copy chivalry folder from steam and paste into ram drive
wK | Sir_Pink: now open the chivalry folder from your ramdisk
wK | Sir_Pink: go to Binaries
wK | Sir_Pink: open Win32
wK | Sir_Pink: scroll through until you find UDK.exe Application
wK | Sir_Pink: you are going to double click that to open your game and then you are set

Originally posted by MDGeist:

Try to set the UDK.exe in your NVidia Control Panel if you had such a graphic card.
That helps me. Before that, the CPU has to manage the GPU work and FPS are drop down every Match. (excuse the horrible english ;) )

Nope, I've got an ATI card. Also I wouldn't like to mess with the general graphic card settings since some of the games I play really don't like that.

Theres some optimization stuff at the top of the guide
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=132781358

Just type 'scale lowend' in the console. Then adjust your screen resolution.

It helped me a lot, the lag is gone.