Active Matter System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Active Matter system requirements start at a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC with a Core i5-6600 or Ryzen 3 1300X, 8 GB of RAM, a GTX 1050 Ti, RX 470 or ARC A580 class graphics card, 45 GB of free space on an SSD and a broadband connection. Those are the official minimums as of September 21, 2026, on current build 0.4.0.122, and the same listing publishes a recommended target one tier above them. Native Linux is supported and the game runs on Steam Deck, so Windows is not the only way in.

Minimum and recommended PC specs

The requirements block lives on the Steam store page in two tabs, Windows and SteamOS + Linux, and the Gaijin support site carries a second, matching copy of the Windows figures, so the numbers below are not a single-source claim. Nothing in the list is a suggestion: it describes the floor at which the game is expected to run at all, and below it no setting is promised. Read the storage column first, because on this game it is the row people get wrong.

Component	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Processor	Core i5-6600 / Ryzen 3 1300X	Core i5-8700 / Ryzen 5 3600
Memory	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	GTX 1050 Ti / RX 470 / ARC A580	RTX 2060 / RX 5700 XT / ARC A770
Network	Broadband internet connection	Broadband internet connection
Storage	45 GB available space, SSD required	45 GB available space, SSD required
Other	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system	Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

The two tabs differ only in the operating-system line. On Linux the minimum says any modern 64-bit distribution and the recommended names Ubuntu 26.04 64-bit, while CPU, memory, graphics, storage and network rows stay identical on both sides (Steam store page, accessed September 21, 2026). Both tables also repeat the same top line about requiring a 64-bit processor and operating system, which rules out 32-bit installs on either platform.

Official screenshot, © Matter Team / Gaijin Network Ltd.

Can your laptop run it?

Because the tables name desktop parts and the store listing has no separate laptop section, the practical check is a model-by-model comparison: look up the exact CPU and GPU in your machine and place them against the rows above (single source, since the store page is the only place this table is published in full). A laptop chip at GTX 1050 Ti level is the floor and an RTX 2060 level chip is the target, while anything under 8 GB of RAM sits below the minimum outright. Storage type catches people out next: the listing says SSD required, so 45 GB free on a mechanical drive still fails the published spec.

Official screenshot, © Matter Team / Gaijin Network Ltd.

Storage, download size and the SSD rule

Forty-five gigabytes is the only storage figure the official pages publish, and it appears in both requirement tabs as available space rather than as a download size. Neither the store block nor the Gaijin support article splits the number into installer plus patches, so 45 GB of free space is what to budget before you start (to confirm). The SSD note sits inside the requirements block itself instead of a footnote, which matters most on laptops and small prebuilts where the system drive is also the smallest one.

The Gaijin support section also carries a How to Download the Game Client article beside the system requirements article (single source, accessed September 21, 2026), which is the documented path if you want the launcher build rather than the Steam one. Both routes install the same game, and PC progress is shared only between the Steam and Gaijin.Net versions, while console progress stays separate. Owners of the Gaijin Store Early Version also get the Steam version at no charge once the accounts are bound, with November 23, 2026 as the binding deadline, as covered on Steam account link.

Graphics and performance troubleshooting

Two question shapes come up around the topic of this page more than any other: how to tone down the sun or glare effect, and full-screen graphical artifacts, the second of which shows up as a Russian-language query. Neither the official FAQ nor the Gaijin support article documents a setting or a fix for either one as of September 21, 2026, so there is no sourced answer to hand out (to confirm); the change log is the place to watch instead. The most recent performance work is Update 0.4.0.115 on September 17, 2026, which the studio describes as improved performance, reworked animations, multiple bug fixes, and updates to the interface and sound. The build after it, 0.4.0.122 on September 18, 2026, is an experimental Body Sleeve appearance-correction mode where the studio itself warns that spatial distortions may occur and that further adjustments are planned in later updates.

Not every visual oddity is a bug, though, and that difference decides where the effort goes. If what you are seeing looks like a rendering fault rather than a design choice, the documented route is the Gaijin support site, where a Bug reports article sits in the same section as the system requirements article (single source). Do that before a reinstall, because the requirements table already tells you whether your hardware is inside the supported floor.

Official screenshot, © Matter Team / Gaijin Network Ltd.

Linux, Steam Deck and consoles

The store page lists Linux as a supported platform with its own requirements tab, and the official FAQ answers both questions directly: the game has native Linux support, and it runs on Steam Deck (both read September 21, 2026, current build 0.4.0.122). On a Steam Deck the hardware target is the same table above, so expect to tune settings rather than reach the recommended row. Consoles have no equivalent list to check, and PS5 and Xbox players are covered by their store listings and platform features instead.