WoW Forever System Requirements

On Windows: Windows 10 64-bit, a 4-core 3.0 GHz processor (Intel Core Haswell or AMD Ryzen Zen), a DirectX 12 GPU with 4 GB (GeForce GTX 10 series, AMD RDNA 1 or Intel Lunar Lake graphics), 8 GB RAM and an SSD with 128 GB free. On Mac: macOS 12 with an Apple M2 (8 GB) or a 9th generation Intel Core.

Windows 11, 8 performance cores at 5.2 GHz (Intel Core Ultra Series 2 or AMD Ryzen Zen 5), an 8 GB GPU (GeForce RTX 40 series, AMD RDNA 3 or Intel Arc B-Series), 16 GB RAM and the same 128 GB SSD. On Mac: macOS 15 on an Apple M4 with 16 GB.

Yes. Mac is listed next to Windows on the Battle.net shop page, from macOS 12 with an Apple M2 at minimum to macOS 15 with an Apple M4 recommended.

Blizzard hasn’t said. The lowest Apple chip on its list is the M2 with 8 GB, and the M1 isn’t named. A Mac below the minimum isn’t promised to work.

Yes. Both the minimum and the recommended specs ask for a solid state drive with 128 GB of available space. A hard drive isn’t on either list.

Blizzard hasn’t published a size. Players who installed the beta early report 65–66 GB with no other WoW version on the drive (the installer said 69 GB required in one screenshot), and about 14.11–15.10 GB when another WoW version (Classic or retail) was already installed. Launch and patches will change that.

Blizzard doesn’t explain the number. It is free space on the drive, not the game size, and the same page asks Midnight players for the same 128 GB.

The minimum names the GeForce GTX 10 series with 4 GB of video memory. On paper the 6 GB GTX 1060 meets that and the 3 GB version falls short; the recommended specs ask for an 8 GB RTX 40 series card.

Yes, if it meets the list. The Windows minimum names Intel’s Lunar Lake integrated graphics, and on Mac an M2 with 8 GB is the minimum. Other integrated graphics aren’t named.

Yes. The minimum is Windows 10 64-bit with the May 2019 Update or newer. Windows 11 is only in the recommended specs.

Not on Windows. The same shop page lists World of Warcraft: Midnight with the same recommended specs, and Midnight’s Windows minimum asks for a stronger processor (6 cores, 4.0 GHz) than Forever’s. On Mac, Forever’s minimum graphics line names only the Apple M2, while Midnight’s also names AMD RDNA 1 (4 GB) for Intel Macs.

Blizzard hasn’t explained the specs. What it has shown: in the Evolving a Timeless World panel at BlizzCon, it presented new volumetric fog, a longer view distance, global illumination with its own ray tracer, and new water for Forever. Separately, and only about the interface, Blizzard said in the WoW UI Discord, as quoted by Wowhead, that Forever shares Mainline WoW’s UI architecture, including the vast majority of its addon APIs.

Yes. In the Evolving a Timeless World panel, lead software engineer Jason Scott said Blizzard made its own ray tracer for the new lighting, built for the recommended hardware and optimized to run on the minimum hardware too, so every player gets it.

Blizzard announced official gamepad support. Wowhead reported that the BlizzCon demo stations had Xbox controllers, which worked for the level 1–10 Skyborne experience but not the dungeon demo. The shop page still lists keyboard and mouse as the minimum input.

Blizzard lists only Windows and Mac and hasn’t mentioned Linux or Steam Deck. One Reddit commenter said the early beta install worked on Linux, without saying how.

Blizzard hasn’t said. The Battle.net shop page lists only Windows and Mac and names no cloud service, and we haven’t found any Blizzard statement about GeForce Now for Forever.