Arknights: Endfield System Requirements and Platforms

Arknights: Endfield targets 1080p at 30 FPS on low settings for the minimum tier, and a smoother 1080p/60 experience at higher settings on the recommended tier. Both tiers assume a 64-bit Windows install.

The jump from 16 GB to 32 GB RAM at the recommended tier is unusually steep for a game with otherwise mid-range CPU/GPU targets — treat 32 GB as the real comfort threshold if you plan to alt-tab, stream, or run Discord and a browser alongside the game.

The installed game takes up around 60 GB, but you should not download it with only 60 GB free. The installer needs roughly 45 GB of additional temporary space to unpack archives during setup, so plan for about 105 GB free on your drive before you start the download. Once installation finishes, the temporary files are cleared and you are left with the ~60 GB final footprint.

• An SSD is not optional in practice — the developer explicitly recommends it, and running the game from a mechanical hard drive causes stuttering when streaming textures and loading new areas.
• On mobile, both Android and iOS installs are reported at around 28 GB, a fraction of the PC footprint since mobile uses more aggressive texture compression.
• If your SSD is close to full, clear space before updating too — patches temporarily need extra room to apply, the same way the initial install does.

Arknights: Endfield launched on PS5 at the same time as PC and mobile, so console players are not getting a delayed or scaled-back version. There is no PS4 version and no Xbox Series X|S release at all — if you're on Xbox, PC, PS5, or a mobile device are your only options.

• Progress made on PS5 carries over to other platforms when you sign in with the same linked account, so switching between your PS5 and phone mid-campaign keeps your operators, resources, and story progress intact.
• PS5 players get platform-specific bonus content tied to a paid pre-order-style bundle, separate from the free base game.
• There is no official PS5 Pro-specific enhanced mode confirmed at launch beyond standard PS5 support — treat any Pro-specific claims as unconfirmed until Gryphline states otherwise.

Mobile is a fully supported platform, not a stripped-down companion app, and shares the same account and progress system as PC and PS5.

Even devices that clear the minimum bar will thermal-throttle in long sessions — a phone that runs cool on the menu screen can still drop frames ten minutes into a busy combat encounter once it heats up.

If your hardware sits at or below the minimum spec, prioritize these changes in order — they give the largest FPS gain for the least visual sacrifice:

1. Switch the graphics preset to Custom instead of a fixed preset, so you only disable the effects that actually cost you frames.
2. Lower shadow quality first — shadows, volumetric fog, and screen-space reflections are reported as the three heaviest settings in the game, and dropping them to Low or Off recovers the most FPS of any single change.
3. Reduce render scale to 70-80% and turn on upscaling — use DLSS if your GPU supports it, otherwise TAAU, to claw back sharpness lost from the lower render resolution.
4. Disable anti-aliasing or switch to FXAA, and turn off motion blur and bloom — these post-processing effects add cost without helping readability in combat.
5. Cap your frame rate to a number your hardware can hold consistently — 60 FPS if you can sustain it, or 30 FPS on genuinely low-end systems — since a stable capped frame rate feels smoother than an uncapped one that swings up and down.
6. Try DirectX 11 instead of the default DirectX 12 if you're on an older GPU or CPU; it is reported to improve stability at a small cost to peak performance.

On mobile, the same priority order applies: cap frame rate to 30 FPS on older phones, drop the graphics preset to Low, set render scale to 70-80%, turn shadows off, and keep particle effects on Low. Removing a thick phone case and lowering screen brightness during long sessions also measurably reduces thermal throttling.

Login failures, stuttering, and outright crashes are the three issues players report most. Work through these in order — most problems resolve within the first three or four steps.

• Confirm your PC actually meets the minimum spec above before troubleshooting anything else — running below spec is the single most common cause of crashes and black screens.
• Update your GPU drivers with a clean install (enable the "clean installation" option in the NVIDIA or AMD installer) — outdated or corrupted drivers are a frequent cause of crashes and black screens.
• Disable overlays from Discord, NVIDIA GeForce Experience/Overlay, AMD software, and any third-party frame-rate or filter tools — these are reported to freeze or crash the game, and AI frame-interpolation tools in particular are flagged as problematic.
• Run the game as Administrator — this has fixed voice/audio issues for some players, and combined with Windows 7/8 compatibility mode it can resolve certain startup crashes.
• Verify game files: in the Gryphlink launcher, open the three-line menu next to Play and choose "Check Game Integrity" to repair missing or corrupted files (Epic Games Store users can use Epic's built-in verify option).
• Install both x64 and x86 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables if the game refuses to launch at all.
• Whitelist launcher.exe and Endfield.exe in Windows Defender and any third-party antivirus — security software blocking the executable is a known cause of the game failing to open.
• Stuck at "Releasing Files" during install or update: this is usually a stale temporary-file conflict — clear your Windows TEMP folder (Win+R, type temp) and the %appdata%\..\Local\Temp folder, then retry.
• Force the game onto your dedicated GPU on laptops with switchable graphics — check your Windows Graphics Settings and set Endfield.exe to "High performance" so it isn't defaulting to the integrated chip.
• Try the launch options -dx11 or -dx12 to force a specific graphics API if the default is unstable on your hardware.
• Last resort — delete local save/cache data: back up anything you need, then remove the Endfield folder from AppData\LocalLow, and reinstall. Only do this after the steps above have failed.
• If you hit login errors specifically, first check your network connection is stable, then force-quit and relaunch, then restart your device — Gryphline's own support flow escalates in that exact order before recommending a full reinstall.