Where Winds Meet system requirements on every platform

This page is part of our Where Winds Meet hub. Numbers come from the official store listings and the official site, checked on November 11, 2026, with version 2.3 live and version 2.4 due on November 13.

Requirements at a glance

Where Winds Meet runs on Windows PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, the official launcher and the Xbox app), PS5, Xbox Series X|S, iOS and Android, with crossplay between all of them. These are the entry points for each:

An internet connection is always required. The PlayStation Store lists "Online play required" and the Microsoft Store says the game requires online multiplayer. How the platforms connect is covered in our multiplayer and crossplay guide.

PC minimum and recommended specs

The Steam store page (appid 3564740) is the most current official PC source. Both tiers run Windows 10 or 11 64-bit with DirectX 12 and broadband, and Steam adds: "We recommend you install the game on SSD drive for better experience."

Where the official sources disagree. The official Install Guide from November 2025 published lower, launch era figures in three tiers. The game has added Hexi, the Imperial Palace, Hidden Mountain and Qingzhou since then, so treat Steam as current and the launcher table as history:

The same guide listed a laptop minimum of a Ryzen 7 5800HS with a GeForce MX450 and 8 GB RAM, and two launcher downloads: a Quick Package needing over 60 GB and a Standard Package needing over 100 GB. Guides call the Quick Package "Lite"; it uses reduced textures and exists only in the official launcher, not on Steam. Whether it still exists in its 2025 form is not confirmed. The Microsoft Store lists a GTX 1060 with 6 GB of video memory and 16 GB RAM as the minimum too, but names DirectX 11 as the minimum API, and its PC package is about 208 GB at most, in line with Steam's 200 GB recommendation.

DLSS 5, frame generation and ray tracing on PC

Upscaling is the single biggest help for mid range cards. The official November 28, 2025 fix notes added "a DLSS4 Multi Frame Generation option" for RTX 50 series cards. NVIDIA's November 5, 2026 article confirms the game supports DLSS Multi Frame Generation and Super Resolution, and says DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering arrives on November 23, 2026 for GeForce RTX 50 Series, RTX Spark devices and GeForce NOW Ultimate, with the Game Ready Driver released on November 4. Some outlets reported November 24; we use NVIDIA's own date.

Where Winds Meet: NVIDIA DLSS 5 Reveal (NVIDIA GeForce channel)

AMD and older NVIDIA cards are not left out: the settings menu offers a Super Resolution Type with DLSS or TSR (Game8 recommends TSR on AMD) and an FSR resolution quality setting. Guides from Hone.gg and allthings.how say DLSS and frame generation need DirectX 12, while older GTX 900 and 1000 cards can run better in DirectX 11; treat that as a tip to test, not an official rule. The Microsoft Store tags the game with ray tracing, and the menu has a Real-time Sunlight toggle that costs frames.

Scenes like these, with lights reflected in water and dense architecture, are the heaviest for your GPU: reflections and effects are two of the settings guides tell you to lower first. Left, an official homepage screenshot; right, Qingzhou's Eastern Peak from the 2.3 update overview.

Best settings for weak PCs and laptops

Several guides tested the PC version, and they agree on what to cut first. Game8's best settings (November 27, 2025, launch build) name Vegetation Quality, View Distance and Reflection Quality as the biggest frame rate costs. The Backdash calls the engine well optimized for low end hardware once Effect Quality and Reflection Quality drop to Low and Real-time Sunlight is off. Hone.gg points at shadows and ambient occlusion. Apply them in this order and check your frame rate after each step:

1. Turn on upscaling. DLSS on NVIDIA RTX, TSR or FSR on AMD and GTX cards.
2. Set V-Sync and Motion Blur to Off and play in fullscreen.
3. Lower Vegetation Quality and View Distance. These are the heaviest in forests and cities.
4. Set Reflection Quality and Effect Quality to Low. Big fights with many skill effects stop dropping frames.
5. Turn off Real-time Sunlight and lower Shadows and Ambient Occlusion.
6. Lower Tessellation and Lighting Quality if you still need more.
7. Cap the frame rate at 30 on a laptop or entry level card. A stable 30 feels better than a jumpy 45.

PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox

Where Winds Meet launched on PS5 together with PC on November 14, 2025. The PlayStation Store lists it as free to play with DualSense vibration and trigger effects, up to 10 network players and the PS5 Pro Enhanced label. Sony's PlayStation Blog (May 25, 2026) explains what Pro owners got with the Imperial Palace update on May 28, 2026: ray-traced reflections on water surfaces, moats and courtyard ponds, "stable performance at approximately 60fps" in the palace areas, and an upgraded PSSR that greatly reduces ghosting and flickering. For the base PS5, the team "specially optimized the most demanding in-game scenarios". Neither Sony nor NetEase has published resolution numbers or named performance modes.

Both images come from the PlayStation Blog post about the Imperial Palace update, the patch that brought the PS5 Pro reflections. Earlier patches fixed console HDR settings not saving (January 2026) and reduced PS5 crashes through better memory use (April 30, 2026).

Xbox arrived on June 8, 2026 (UTC+8), on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud, free from the Microsoft Store and in the Game Pass library from day one. NetEase's press release lists a 4K upscale on Series X, a 2K upscale on Series S, full HDR and AMD FSR 2. The store also lists 60 fps+, keyboard and mouse on console and Xbox Play Anywhere. No official frame rate split between Series X and Series S was published, so ignore the pre-launch predictions you may find.

iPhone, iPad and Android requirements

The mobile version launched worldwide on December 12, 2025 (UTC). NetEase's official Mobile Launch FAQ publishes three chip tiers per platform, and Game8 and other guides repeat the same table:

The App Store lists iPad support from iPadOS 15, but NetEase's chart has iPhone tiers only, so there is no official iPad tier. The App Store download is 3.7 GB (version 1.0.26, November 5, 2026), and the game downloads more resources on first launch; NetEase has not published how much, so keep plenty of free space. Some cutscenes are replaced with video on mobile, which uses extra data, and the FAQ still describes mobile performance optimization as ongoing.

Two official App Store screenshots. Combat on the left shows the touch layout; version 1.2 added a custom layout and a choice between a fixed stick and a motion sensor stick, and improved latency in big fights.

For phones, the practical settings advice is simple: play on a Supported tier chip or better, keep 8 GB of RAM or more, play on Wi-Fi so the cutscene videos do not eat your data, and expect a phone in the Minimum tier to run hot in crowded Online Mode areas. New mobile characters start on Story or Recommended difficulty; Expert unlocks at level 30, and the Legend difficulty has to be started on PC.

Where Winds Meet Mobile launches December 12 (UTC) (official Where Winds Meet channel)

Steam Deck, Mac and Linux

Steam Deck: Valve's compatibility report, checked on November 11, 2026, rates the game Unsupported with the note that SteamOS does not support it. In a November 23, 2025 letter the developers promised Steam Deck compatibility within two months; a year later the rating has not changed, and older community workarounds are outdated.

Mac: there is no native macOS version. Steam lists Windows only, and the App Store app is for iPhone and iPad, with no Mac entry. Cloud streaming and compatibility layers are unofficial, and we would not buy hardware or software counting on them.

Linux: not supported on Steam.

Whatever device you pick, link your account before you create a character, so your progress follows you if you upgrade later. The steps are in the multiplayer guide, and the beginner guide covers your first hours. Version 2.4 and the anniversary content arrive on November 13; see the anniversary update guide, and grab the 15 working codes on our Where Winds Meet codes page while you wait for the download.

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