WoW Forever system requirements
WoW Forever needs Windows 10 or macOS 12, a 4-core 3.0 GHz processor, a DirectX 12 graphics card with 4 GB (GTX 10 series or newer), 8 GB of memory and 128 GB of SSD space. Because of the new lighting, cards older than AMD GCN 1 (2012), NVIDIA Maxwell (2014) or Intel Skylake (2015) no longer work at all.
WoW Forever minimum and recommended specs for Windows
| Part | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows 10 64-bit (May 2019 update) | Windows 11 |
| Processor | 4 cores at 3.0 GHz | 8 performance cores |
| Graphics card | DirectX 12 with 4 GB: GTX 10 series, RDNA 1 or Iris Xe2-LPG | 8 GB: RTX 40 series, RDNA 3 or Arc B series |
| Memory | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 128 GB SSD | 128 GB SSD |
WoW Forever Mac requirements
| Part | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | macOS 12 | macOS 15 |
| Processor | Apple M2 or 9th generation Intel | Apple M4 |
| Memory | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Mac players hitting a crash at character login should set Secondary Lighting to Fair; see the beta fixes.
Which graphics cards WoW Forever no longer supports
The new lighting, fog and global illumination need RGBA16F UAV compute shader support. Anything older than AMD GCN 1 (Radeon HD 7000, 2012), NVIDIA Maxwell (GTX 900, 2014) or Intel Skylake integrated graphics (2015) cannot run the game. The install shows an operating system error rather than a graphics one when this is the cause. If you want the lightest settings once you are in, the Classic preset uses the original SD models.
Requirements, with sources
- Official Graphics cards older than AMD GCN 1 (2012), NVIDIA Maxwell (2014) or Intel Skylake (2015) are no longer supported, because the new lighting needs RGBA16F UAV compute shader support.Blizzard: graphics hardware requirements, 2026-09-17
- Official Windows minimum: Windows 10 64-bit (May 2019 update), a 4-core 3.0 GHz CPU, a DirectX 12 card with 4 GB (GTX 10 series, RDNA 1 or Iris Xe2-LPG), 8 GB RAM and 128 GB of SSD space. Recommended: Windows 11, 8 performance cores, an 8 GB card (RTX 40, RDNA 3 or Arc B) and 16 GB RAM.Blizzard Support: WoW Forever system requirements
- Official Mac minimum: macOS 12 with an Apple M2 or 9th generation Intel processor and 8 GB RAM. Recommended: macOS 15 with an M4 and 16 GB RAM.Blizzard Support: WoW Forever system requirements