GRAPHICS ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION GUIDE

Enhance and optimize graphics and performance of Tekken 8 easily according to your hardware

Optimization Guide

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


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

]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

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

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/

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

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 from in game menu 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!

[Dante]

@KiidBuu already done by didital foundary where they tried on Steamdeck and had to switch to lowest setting, and used TSR at a pretty low resolution scale

[KiidBuu]

wud you be able to make a guide to optimize graphics for better fps on steam deck??

[Croco Rigolo]

Hi, it's been a while since I'm using this guide as a template for my own Config file, so thanks a lot for all the work!

I just wanted to point out that the line "r.Shadow.SpotLightTransitionScale=512" will cause some unwanted bugs.

You can see it very clearly on the Mog accessory for example, it's entire fur will cast shadows, which result in a quite ugly effect.
So if you are having this kind of probelms, just delete this line and you should be done!

[Dante]

@Cautious19 I cannot say because this does not happen to me online. If the slowness you talk about is performance related then it can be fixed but if it related to internet then it will not.

[Cautious19]

does this help with the epic slowness that happens during online matches?

frames stay up but theres just like input lag or slow slow gameplay

[Unemployed finalboss]

**For AMD users**
try to disable SAM, it might help with vram bottleneck issue.

[Silent ♋]

You and most of us PC players Tenko, I have tried a dozen diferent "fixes" none of them helped me. The game still runs and all but there's always noticible frame drops from 60fps and also from time to time the game auto changes all the settings to low while still having the same performance has high or ultra lol.

[tenko]

Ever since some updates ago I've been having crazy performance issues, my GPU is at 100% and the game doesnt even run. I have already tried unistalling it.
My GPU is a RX 6600 8GB.
Any tips on fixes?

[Dante]

@Lvl 69 C*m Goblin Sorry I dont know if that is possible

[Lvl 69 C*m Goblin]

is it possible to stop the game from pausing while using the steam overlay? (thanks for your great guide)