Best PC settings for Wuthering Waves: Performance, graphics, more

Souhardya Choudhury
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Want to know about the best PC settings to run Wuthering Waves? Here are the best options to tweak for optimal performance and graphics in Wuthering Waves.

Wuthering Waves, just like any other gacha title has some pretty humble system requirements that aren’t difficult for most mid to high-end systems to handle. However, its optimization is certainly not the best out there, and you will need a few tweaks to run the game properly.

So without further ado, here are the best settings for running Wuthering Waves on a PC.

Best Wuthering Waves PC settings for performance

Wuthering Waves performance PC settings
Turning down most settings should help increase performance massively.

Here are the best PC settings for getting the best performance in Wuthering Waves:

  • Graphics Quality: Medium
  • Screen Mode: Full Screen
  • Resolution: Monitor Resolution (for example 1920×1080)
  • Brightness: Default
  • Frame Rate: 60 FPS (45 FPS if still getting stutters)
  • Shadow Quality: High
  • Special Effects Quality: Low
  • DLSS/FSR: On
  • LOD Bias: Medium
  • Capsule AO: Off
  • Volumetric Fog: Off
  • Volumetric Lighting: Off
  • Motion Blur: On
  • Anti-Aliasing: On
  • V-Sync: Off

These are the settings that any low to mid-range PC owner should use if they want to run Wuthering Waves optimally.

Best Wuthering Waves PC settings for graphics

Wuthering Waves graphics PC settigns.
If you have a high-end GPU, you can use some luxurious settings.

Here are the best PC settings for having the best graphical fidelity in Wuthering Waves:

  • Graphics Quality: Advanced
  • Screen Mode: Full Screen
  • Resolution: Resolution: Monitor Resolution (for example 1920×1080)
  • Brightness: Default
  • Frame Rate: 60fps
  • Shadow Quality: Ultra High
  • Special Effects Quality: High
  • DLSS/FSR: On
  • LOD Bias: High
  • Capsule AO: On
  • Volumetric Fog: On
  • Volumetric Lighting: On
  • Motion Blur: Off
  • Anti-Aliasing: On
  • V-Sync: Off

These are the settings that high-end PC owners can use. Despite being cranked on all settings, their beefy GPUs can pull off easy 60 FPS at all times.

Wuthering Waves PC requirements

Here are the minimum and recommended PC requirements for running Wuthering Waves:

Minimum requirementsRecommended requirements
OS:Windows 10 64bit or Windows 11 64bitWindows 10 64bit or Windows 11 64bit
CPU:Intel i5 (9th Gen) / AMD Ryzen 2700Intel i7 (9th Gen) / AMD Ryzen 3700
GPU:Nvidia GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 570Nvidia RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
Memory:16 GB RAM16 GB RAM

How to update graphics drivers for Wuthering Waves

If you are still facing performance issues in Wuthering Waves after optimized settings, try updating the graphics drivers, as more often than not, performance decreases due to outdated drivers in PCs.

Here’s how to update Nvidia graphics drivers on your PC:

  1. Download GeForce Experience through Nvidia.com.
  2. Open GeForce Experience.
  3. Select the ‘Drivers’ tab.
  4. Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner.
  5. If an update is available, follow the steps.

Here’s how to update AMD graphics drivers on your PC:

  1. Right-click on your desktop.
  2. Select AMD Radeon Settings.
  3. Click on the Home icon.
  4. Click ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
  5. Select ‘check for update.’
  6. If an update is available, follow the steps.

If you are interested in more Wuthering Waves, you can take a look at how much space you need to allocate to play the game and who the 17 characters are in version 1.0. Speaking of characters, you might also want to take a look at Camellya, the new leaked character.