Get the Best Game Performance on your Gaming PC in Street Fighter 6
First off, good luck on your fighting game journey – whether you’re an ’09-er’, slapped arcade buttons in a pizzeria getting accidental Yoga Flames once, or a seasoned fighting game veteran competing at your locals or majors – one thing is for certain, fighting games on PC just feel nicer to play!
It has the lowest input latency and PC mods can offer quality-of-life mods like a dark mode training room or can accelerate through the splash screens when you launch the game. An option we recommend turning on is ‘Input Delay Reduction.’ It may improve the input delay timing but it may also introduce screen tearing so test your settings as you would normally.
Street Fighter 6 has 3 main modes. ‘Fighting Ground‘ is your typical arcade, training, combo trials, and online lobby menu system you might be familiar with in older Street Fighter games. The main draw to Street Fighter 6 is the ‘World Tour‘ mode, which acts as both an extended tutorial and a silly RPG in a nice combination of Pokemon and Yakuza. There you can create an avatar, or horror, and take them to the ‘Battle Hub‘ which sort of resembles what we old timers called arcades. Both the ‘World Tour’ and ‘Battle Hub’ modes are more demanding on PC hardware, turning the option ‘NPCs’ option to ‘Uncrowded’ may help with some performance issues.
An option in Street Fighter 6 for the PC we would recommend turning on is ‘perform shader warming on startup.’ Restart your game and it should start a progress bar at the bottom with a silhouette of Ryu doing a tatsu. It takes around 5 minutes depending on your system, and it only has to run once – unless the game is patched like how the Rashid patch just went live, otherwise you’ll just have to sit through it again.
What this will do is prevent any stuttering from the game having to load a new texture in for the first time, like a fireball. It doesn’t happen often but say you’re taxing your system by recording or streaming, the extra load may cause performance issues for your game.
Depending on your monitor’s output resolution, whether it’s 1080p, 1440p, or 4K – another great part about PC gaming is that you’re able to adjust the settings to your needs. Use the 4K monitor for the workspace but your GPU doesn’t have the juice for 4K native resolution for gaming? Try windowed 1080p!
Capcom’s proprietary game engine (RE Engine) is extremely scalable, meaning that playable optimization, sometimes up to 60 fps for games like Street Fighter 6 is possible on all kinds of hardware. For a fighting game, in particular, 60 fps is the target, anything lower is considered unplayable.
Street Fighter 6 is thankfully very playable on most setups and configurations at the expense of some texture quality options. Even running it on the Steam Deck is possible, and that doesn’t even have a dedicated GPU.
And if you just got a nice monitor or want a bump in resolution or texture quality, you may want to consider an upgrade before hitting the streets.
For 1080p
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AMD Archer EZB101
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- ASRock B550M-C
- AMD Radeon RX 7600 – 8GB
- 16GB DDR4-3600MHz ADATA RGB RAM
- 1TB WD SN570 M.2 NVMe SSD
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- AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- B550M AC
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 – 8GB
- 16GB DDR4-3200MHz RGB RAM
- 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Both of these PCs in particular are paired with either an AMD Radeon RX 7600 or a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which are more than enough to run Street Fighter 6 at 60 fps at 1080p on High settings. You may run into a few drops in the ‘World Tour’ mode but that can be mitigated by lowering the crowd density in the options menu. This option makes the background scene less crowded with random characters in exchange for better performance.
Fighting Ground Object Density: Off / NPCs: Uncrowded
Fighting Ground Object Density: Crowded / NPCs: Crowded
At the time of writing, there’s also an option ‘Lock World Tour Battles to 30 fps’ in the menu that might be enabled by default. Unselecting that option may improve performance and prevent slowdown issues depending on your system.
For 1440p
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AMD Crusader EZB102
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- ASRock B550M-C
- 16GB DDR4-3600MHz ADATA RGB RAM
- GeForce RTX 4060 Ti – 8GB
- 1TB WD SN570 M.2 NVMe SSD
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Gaming RDY SLMRR214
- iBUYPOWER Slate MONO MR Tempered Glass ARGB
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- 16GB DDR5-5200MHz RAM
- AMD Radeon RX 7600 – 8GB
- B650 WiFi
Once you get into the 1440p resolution, we imagine you want a higher bump in specs. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 7600 are good choices here, offering excellent performance in Street Fighter 6. You might notice better performance in World Tour mode, you’re probably hitting those perfect parries now, right?
For 4K
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Intel Champion DDR5 EZB101
- Intel Core i7-13700KF
- Asus Prime Z790-P WiFi
- 32GB DDR5-5600MHz ADATA RAM
- GeForce RTX 4070 Ti – 12GB
- 1TB WD SN570 M.2 NVMe SSD
For Street Fighter 6 fans wanting to experience all the nostalgia in native 3840x2160p (4K, btw). The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be more than enough to run Street Fighter 6 in glorious, maxed-out textures – offering performance and detail right down to the sweat on Cammy’s brows.
This is for the fighting game fan looking forward to Tekken 8 and Mortal Kombat 1 (it’s like a reboot), unafraid of whatever PC port optimization issues come their way. No dropped frames or combos with the system here.
And if you’re looking to check out some pro-level gameplay, check out Intel and iBUYPOWER’s Street Fighter 6 Pro Invitational at PAX East ‘23 and #GameWithUS Pro Invitational at Anime Expo ‘23.
