


Use this, along with the PC version's "dynamic adjustment" option, to trade detail for frames and consistency. The best feature in this regard is the game's "rendering scale" option, which drops the game's rendered pixel count and lets the visual engine fill in the blanks. We're not sure how much overhead his system has, but based on my Surface Pro 4 test, I reckon that anybody with a 120Hz or 144Hz monitor can play with settings and squeeze quite a few frames. He reports a locked 60fps refresh with the game running at full 1080p resolution. Our lowest-specced tester, Ars' Aurich Lawson, has tested Tekken 7 on an i5 3.5GHz machine, equipped with 8GB of RAM and a GTX 970 running at stock speeds. Meanwhile, if you're looking for a sexier Tekken 7 experience, you can expect to rock a consistent 60fps with all visual settings maxed out on a wide variety of PCs. Tekken 7, more than any PC fighting game in memory, lets you deliberately hamstring its visuals, to a severe degree, to get its engine humming at a consistent frame rate.

This is why people love PC gaming: they can choose how pretty or ugly their games run. (That FPS counter shows "50" because the screenshot button tanks the framerate, FYI.) Did you say Surface Pro 4?Įnlarge / This is how downgraded Tekken 7 looks if you want it to run at 60fps on a Surface Pro 4. If you want to play some solid rounds of time-tested 3D fighting, you can now do so on pretty much any modern computer with even the slightest bit of gaming hardware-or you can just as easily crank it up on a mid-high machine and a 4K screen. None of those have landed as tremendously as this week's Tekken 7, which blows other PC fighting games away in terms of scalability. Only in the past three or so years has this genre benefited from the increasingly blurry line between consoles and computers, with series like Killer Instinct, Street Fighter, and Guilty Gear landing pretty well on Windows PCs. In fact, the fighting game ecosystem has felt that way on PC for far too long, with major tentpole series landing almost entirely on consoles since the '90s genre explosion. I'm old enough to remember PC gamers' first taste of half-decent fighting games. Those of us who had a Gravis Gamepad and a dream had only a few options in the early '90s: slapdash Street Fighter II ports and "PC-exclusive" fare like One Must Fall 2097. TEKKEN 7 Tested on GTX 1050TI and I3 8100Īs you have noticed from the subtitle, I tested Tekken 7 on a GTX 1050TI OC and an i3 8100.Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows PC (Steam)
