How do I fix long load times?

[Shuten Doji]

My load times are like beyond Tekken 7 length for some reason. I have the game installed on an SSD with 92% free capacity NTFS. I have also tried installing it on 2 other hard drives and it does not fix the problem. What else could be causing it?

[OrigamiKingdom]

IDK if it's fully relevant to you, but dialing down the texture detail helped the game run quite a bit better for me. It was mostly done because I wanted to see if I could get less of the sluggish delay stuff happening on the character select screen when picking characters.

It dramatically improved performance there, and my load times getting into offline matches are very quick (online loading will be whoever has the slowest loading.)

Texture detail is very high for the game, and when you load a stage, it has to get all of that stuff off your drive and get it into your video card. The more data you are pushing around, the longer it will take, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the hard drive that is the bottle neck slowing things down

It may not help, but it's worth trying if you haven't. Dial it all the way down and see what happens. If it happens to help, up it one quality level at a time until you find something you can live

[theweakestgamer]

Ask Harada.

[NYC AirLancer]

My load times are only a few seconds, but I've got it installed on an NVMe SSD rather than a SATA one.

[Shuten Doji]

Originally posted by OrigamiKingdom:

IDK if it's fully relevant to you, but dialing down the texture detail helped the game run quite a bit better for me. It was mostly done because I wanted to see if I could get less of the sluggish delay stuff happening on the character select screen when picking characters.

It dramatically improved performance there, and my load times getting into offline matches are very quick (online loading will be whoever has the slowest loading.)

Texture detail is very high for the game, and when you load a stage, it has to get all of that stuff off your drive and get it into your video card. The more data you are pushing around, the longer it will take, and it doesn't necessarily have to be the hard drive that is the bottle neck slowing things down

It may not help, but it's worth trying if you haven't. Dial it all the way down and see what happens. If it happens to help, up it one quality level at a time until you find something you can live

So fiddling around with the graphics settings in general did help the speed a bit, but it's still not as fast as I've seen on other people when they stream and whatnot. I wonder what the problem is...

[Awaken]

Unless your rig is really old and can barely run the game at all, the load times are mostly just affected by the drive the game is stored on.

[Serious]

Using ssd is basic for faster loading times but also ssd have large differences.
The fastest possible loading time will be m2 on pcie 5 but you also need the hardware to support this.
If you use sata ssd you should check the actual read/write performance of your drive e.g. with crystaldisk mark
Important is also the clustersize you can choose when formating a drive.
Larger cluster sizes could reduce read time but you could also waste space this way, esp. if you have to install lots of small data (e.g. audio files managed with wwise).

The second point you should check is your memory, if you don't do anything else while playing tekken the performance of your ram won't matter much as long as its at least almost up to date, so everything with ddr4-3200 and above should work and you won't notice much different between those and ddr5-4800 (i used both with very little difference).
But memory could be important if you play tekken with lots of expensive other programs open (e.g. other games, multiple browsers)