Tekken 8 demo leaves me worried about PC performance

The efficiency of Tekken 8 on PC isn’t a brand new concern throughout the group, however my time with the demo has left me with contemporary nervousness that it could not stay as much as expectations.

Tekken 8 will need to be thought of among the many best fighting games on PC, but when the demo is something to guage by, it wants some critical optimization earlier than that turns into a actuality.

Throughout my time with the Tekken 8 demo, a couple of issues had a substantial affect on my time with the sport. Firstly, the audio lag current through the character choose display screen and combat introductions is irritating. It was inconsistent, however current most of the time, and was additionally paired with graphical stuttering. This principally disappears when the motion will get underway, however makes the journey right into a match rather less impactful.

Subsequent up was the efficiency of each in-engine and pre-rendered cutscenes. Remarkably, CapFrameX reported large body drops throughout pre-rendered cutscenes, which merely is unnecessary and solely factors towards an optimization situation. They’re additionally significantly decrease high quality than any of the in-engine visuals. As for the in-engine cutscenes, whereas the drops are much less extreme, it’s nonetheless irritating and troublesome to remain immersed in Tekken 8’s notoriously ridiculous storytelling when the efficiency is missing.

Lastly, the least extreme however most regarding downside arises throughout gameplay. Whereas generally imperceptible, and different occasions outright disruptive, body drops throughout fights are a problem. Granted, that is restricted to when the motion will get very busy, like throughout particular strikes, however something that would affect response time in a combating sport might be thought of catastrophic.

I examined the Tekken 8 demo on the identical testing rig that we use for all video games on PCGamesN. It consists of an Intel Core i7 11700F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, and 32GB of RAM.

In airing on the aspect of optimism, it might be that these points are fastened within the full launch of Tekken 8, however given what number of examples of poorly optimized video games launched in 2023, it’s onerous to be utterly assured, even when early indicators counsel that Tekken 8 will not less than run effectively on the Steam Deck.

The Tekken 8 release date will probably be right here quickly, so take a look at the Tekken 8 system requirements to verify your rig can deal with the calls for.