GRAPHICS ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION GUIDE

[Dante]

The graphics settings of Tekken 8 are pretty barebones and it does not allow one to, do even the most basic settings like disable chromatic aberration or disable upscaling. This guide will help you do all the basic and advanced settings for this game and will also let you optimize your game for better visuals, better performance or both :)

This guide has been turned into a visual guide because the wall of text was getting very big as I kept updating this guide and reading all of that text was getting tedious and confusing. So I have decided to make a video guide, while leaving only the important commands and links here. That way you guys can easily follow the video while you keep this Steam post open, so that you can easily copy paste important stuff form here.

ENHANCED GRAPHICS AND OPTIMIZATION VIDEO GUIDE:
https://youtu.be/lzCGq4LtVKg

COMPARISON SCREENSHOTS:
Note that the non default screenshots has all UE5 settings applied to max values, has shadows and Anti Aliasing set to HIGH (not ULTRA) and has the 2 Reshade filters (that I shown in the video) applied.
https://ibb.co/album/7k5zZT

ENGINE.INI FOLDER LOCATION:
%localappdata%\TEKKEN 8\Saved\Config\Windows

NOTE: If you cannot find appdata folder, it means the folder is hidden in windows by default. Go to MY PC > VIEW tab > check HIDDEN ITEMS.

]ENGINE.INI COMMANDS/TWEAKS:

[SystemSettings]

r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

r.MaxAnisotropy=16

r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=4

r.SSR.Quality=4

r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1

r.Shadow.MaxResolution=8192
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.01
r.Shadow.SpotLightTransitionScale=512
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=16
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=8192

(these shadow settings are a contribution of @Mezziaz in his post below, so credit goes to him)

FX.MaxCPUParticlesPerEmitter=10
FX.MaxGPUParticlesSpawnedPerFrame=5
fx.MaxNiagaraCPUParticlesPerEmitter=10
fx.MaxNiagaraGPUParticlesSpawnPerFrame=5

DLSS TWEAKS:

Link to the dlsstweaks download:
https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/550

(This DLAA tip is a contribution by @Buttered Steak in his comment below, so credit goes to him)

FOLDER PATH FOR GAMES .EXE FILE:

SteamLibrary\Steamapps\Common\TEKKEN 8 \Polaris\Binaries\Win64
Here you will find Polaris-Win64-Shipping.exe file.

RIVA TUNER DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://www.guru3d.com/download/rtss-rivatuner-statistics-server-download/

RESHADE DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://reshade.me/

Apart from the preset in the video, there is another preset which looks very good as well. That one is shared by @Buttered Steak .Visit this link to see comparison shot and to download the preset: https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/12796/

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
1- Do these settings apply to every UE5 game?
Ans: Yes. The egine.ini commands are universal settings for every UE5 game.

2- Is this a mod?
Ans: No. These are Unreal engine.ini tweaks. Sort of commands you give to the engine.

3- How much performance will it effect?
Ans: Disabling stuff like Depth Of Field may gain you an fps or 2, but then again adding motion blur will make you lose like 2fps. The ambient Occlusion lines and SSR lines will make you lose about 10 fps but that also depends on which value you put there. You don't have to apply all these lines to your game. Just set them according to your preference and your PC hardware capabilities. Just for a performance example, for me, I can play this game with all these lines exactly posted above with highest values, in 120% render scale of 1440p constant 60fps all time using an RTX 3060 Ti. If I increase the render scale to 130%, I can still play it but sometimes during very start of fights or during stage transitions/animations I get some fps drops to like 55 or 50.

That is all. HAPPY GAMING!

[The_Late_Shift]

I wonder if the new Unreal Unlocker 5.1 would work to unlock console and unavailable cvars options? You can use it to dump all Cvars accepted by the game to a txt file and see what can be tweaked.

Also I would highly recommend forcing DLAA on in your game if you are on Nvidia. https://github.com/emoose/DLSSTweaks/releases

[Mezziaz]

Another thing that has helped the presentation a lot for me, is razor sharp shadows

By default they are so soft and bright, that from a difference they are barely visible.

I noticed that bringing the shadows down to medium, makes them darker, so I did that first, then used .ini tweaks to bring the quality back up

r.Shadow.MaxResolution=8192
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.01
r.Shadow.SpotLightTransitionScale=512
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=16
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=8192

I believe Shadow.MaxResolution has the most impact but I applied the other stuff anyways, if too sharp for you just lower to 4096 (but don't go lower)

Example shots below
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mezziaz/screenshot/2304218742166065740/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mezziaz/screenshot/2304218742166068407/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mezziaz/screenshot/2304218742166070761/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mezziaz/screenshot/2304218742166073354/

[ObeVan]

Thanks man, graphics looks much better with this settings

[Dante]

Thanks @Buttered Steak and @Mezziaz above for the tips. I added them to the main post along with credit to you guys :)

Originally posted by ObeVan:

Thanks man, graphics looks much better with this settings:cozyspaceengineersc:

Glad to help out.

[omed_86]

Originally posted by Dante:

r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
disable chromatic aberration

This is the most important one for me.
Legend!

[Maxaemon]

Hello, is there a way to tone down the hit effects and auras on characters? The ingame option really doesn't do anything to the amount of it all. If possible, can they be completely taken out of the game?

[Dante]

Originally posted by omed_86:

Originally posted by Dante:

r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
disable chromatic aberration

This is the most important one for me.
Legend! :winter2019coolyul:

Agreed'

Originally posted by Maxaemon:

Hello, is there a way to tone down the hit effects and auras on characters? The ingame option really doesn't do anything to the amount of it all. If possible, can they be completely taken out of the game?

I think this is more of a mod thing than an engine.ini tweak one. I don't know, I could be wrong. Though I am sure that modders will completely remove hit effects in this game when it releases. Also there are separate hit effect options in character customization as well, so we will see when the full game releases.

[padpoet]

Tried the above on a humble 5900X, 64gb 3600mh ram (2X32gb) and an Nvidia A2000 12gb ram.

I believe the ambient occlusion and Screen space reflections entries dropped my frames a lot. When I performed some heat engagers (Kazuya's for example) my frames would dip from 60 to 45-50. I have everything maxed out in the setting so maybe that also plays a role.

Thanks for these. I'll be doing a lot of fiddling to find the best settings with these when the games launches. Only a month left now!

[Pierce Dalton]

Sigh, why did I only see this after uninstalling the demo? Tyvm.

[Necropants]

Motions blur at 4 looks really good in this game I dont care what anyone says it adds the per object motion blur that games like this need when the character models are moving at pace. The tornado spins in particular look incredible.

Camera motion blur can always gtfo out though.

[default.mp3]

I don't see a diffirence, it still looks like soapy crap

[Dante]

Originally posted by default.mp3:

I don't see a diffirence, it still looks like soapy crap

Maybe you are doing something wrong. Even if you are by some chance playing at very low resolution, you should still see some difference in clarity and sharpness.
Can you elaborate more what steps you took to apply these? Also your in-game settings and resolution.

[Castyles]

Nice one. Been getting some frame drops before the match starts and, sometimes, on stage transitions. Gonna check it out, later. Thanks.

[Mohsin_ramirez]

Ryzen 3600
RX 580 8GB
RAM 16 GB

Holy sh*t!!! A massive improvement and still stable 59/60 fps.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892845
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122885268
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122885213
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892825
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121899909
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892809
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121899880
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121899684
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892745
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892703
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3122892488

I'm starting to consider buying this on day 1.

[ZilToîd]

Thanks for your tips the game looks superb now. For me it's a game changer now I will buy it, I hope namco will give the players the opportunity the make their game look 10 times better. Well maybe it's an esthetic choice.