Wuthering Waves
Kuro's fast-action open-world gacha — one of the heaviest games on mobile, where the Frame Rate setting and resolution decide whether combat feels crisp or soupy.
- Developer
- Kuro Games
- Publisher
- Kuro Games
- Released
- 2024
- FPS Cap
- 120 FPS
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Your Phone
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 · 8GB · 120Hz refresh
Your Estimated Wuthering Waves Performance
45
Minimum
56
Average
63
Maximum
- Preset
- Balanced
- FPS Cap
- 120 FPS
- Capped?
- No — chipset-limited
- RAM
- OK
Demanding — expect throttling in long sessions without cooling.
FPS values displayed on GamerSpecs are estimates. Actual game performance may vary depending on hardware configuration, drivers, cooling, power limits, background applications, and game updates.
About Wuthering Waves
Wuthering Waves pairs a post-apocalyptic open world with some of the fastest, parry-heavy combat in the gacha space — and a rendering load to match. It is demanding even by Genshin standards: dense environments, aggressive particle effects and long draw distances push mobile GPUs hard, and sustained sessions throttle mid-range chips quickly. Kuro exposes real levers though — separate Graphics Quality, Frame Rate and Resolution controls, with a high-frame-rate mode on recent flagships — so the game scales from a playable 30 FPS on Snapdragon 730-class hardware to a genuinely console-like experience on a Snapdragon 8 Elite. Echo farming is combat-dense, so most players should bias frame rate over fidelity.
Best mobile settings
Three curated profiles — max FPS for competitive, balanced, and HD graphics.
Performance Priority
Everything trimmed for the steadiest possible frame rate — parry timing in WuWa is tight enough that a stable 45–60 FPS genuinely wins fights on mid-range phones.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Performance | The preset does most of the work — start here on anything below flagship. |
| Frame Rate | 60 | Prefer a held 60 over a stuttery higher target; drop to 45 on older chips. |
| Resolution | Low / Medium | The single biggest GPU saving in the game. |
| Shadow Quality | Low | — |
| Special Effects Quality | Low | Big fights stay readable and the GPU stays cool. |
| Anti-Aliasing | Off | — |
| Volumetric Fog | Off | — |
| Motion Blur | Off | Sharper camera during dodges and parries. |
Balanced
The everyday profile for upper-mid and flagship phones — the world keeps its atmosphere while combat holds a stable frame rate through Echo farming sessions.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Balanced | — |
| Frame Rate | 60 | — |
| Resolution | Medium / High | — |
| Shadow Quality | Medium | — |
| Special Effects Quality | Medium | — |
| Anti-Aliasing | On | — |
| Volumetric Fog | Low | — |
| Motion Blur | Off | — |
Quality Priority
The full console-like presentation — high resolution, long draw distance and every effect on. Realistically for Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 / 8 Elite phones with cooling headroom.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Quality | — |
| Frame Rate | 60 (120 on supported flagships) | High-frame-rate mode needs serious thermal headroom to sustain. |
| Resolution | High | — |
| Shadow Quality | High | — |
| Special Effects Quality | High | — |
| Anti-Aliasing | On | — |
| Volumetric Fog | On | — |
| Motion Blur | Personal preference | — |
Device requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Android 8 / iOS 13
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 730 / Dimensity 900
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 30 GB
Recommended
- OS
- Android 12 / iOS 16
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 / Dimensity 8200
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 35 GB
Optimization tips
- 1
Resolution is the biggest lever in the game — dropping it one step recovers more frames than any other single setting, at a modest sharpness cost on a phone-sized screen.
- 2
Wuthering Waves throttles hard on sustained load: play cool (case off, game mode on) or expect the frame rate to sag ten minutes into a session regardless of settings.
- 3
Cap at a frame rate your phone can actually hold — a locked 45 feels better than a 60 that dips through every dodge window.
- 4
Special Effects Quality is the setting that saves big fights: lower it and multi-enemy encounters stop spiking.
- 5
Clear RAM before boss attempts — the game uses ~4 GB and background apps cause hitching on 8 GB phones.
- 6
After each major version update, revisit your settings: Kuro's optimization patches have repeatedly improved mid-range performance.