Where Winds Meet is free to play, but it is not a small download — Everstone Studio recommends up to 200GB of SSD space once you count day-one content. Here's the full minimum and recommended spec list, and what to actually plan for before you install.
Minimum specs
Windows 10/11 64-bit, an Intel Core i7-7700K or Ryzen 5 1600, 16GB of RAM, a GTX 1060 (6GB) or RX 480 (8GB), and 130GB of SSD space recommended even at this tier — an HDD install isn't officially supported.
Recommended specs
For a comfortable experience at higher settings, Everstone Studio recommends an Intel Core i7-10700 or Ryzen 7 3700X, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 2070 SUPER, RX 6700 XT or Arc A750 — with the storage ask rising to 200GB of SSD space.
Plan the install around the storage, not the GPU
For most players building around this game, the GPU tier is the easy part — a 2020-era mid-range card clears the minimum requirement comfortably. The real planning question is storage: 130–200GB on an SSD is a bigger ask than most open-world releases this year, and running it off a secondary drive rather than your OS drive is worth doing from the start rather than migrating an install later.
Our take
None of the CPU or GPU requirements are unusual for a 2025-era open-world RPG, but budget the download time and the drive space deliberately — this is one of the heavier free-to-play installs currently on Steam.
