SPARKING ZERO Graphics Enhancement and Optimization Guide | Best Settings and comparison ✨

[@Crimsongz]

Unlocked fps = No online play

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Unlocking fps does not get you banned in online.

[@hubertuczak8351]

@@DanteKOGTekken banned no, but you will get disconnected every time a fight starts

[@skyrapids1577]

it is true, i keep disconnecting

[@gamerboyyt9481]

Best oprimization guide for this game on KZbin ❤

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Glad it was helpful!

[@NinoooZZ]

best guide up 2 date!! WWWWWWWWWWWWW

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Thanks a lot. I am glad it helped you 👍🙂

[@MikuCobraCole]

Do you have recommendations for low end systems like Steam Deck? Would be cool to have some kind of optimized settings for this kind of devices while maintaining a bit of fidelity (I don't like to go "low settings" route...)

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Sorry Steam deck is meant to play low settings and even in low, you have to keep the resolution scale to like 60 to keep the framerate stable enough. Also it has CPU issues as well and there is nothing you can do about it as lowering settings does not help the CPU, so even at lowest setting and resolution scale at 60, you will still experience some frame drops here and there but at least it will be playable that way.

[@Goku17yen]

thank you i didnt know about the ai upscaling feature, really helps with my performance since my gpu isnt the best

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Glad to help out buddy. Still if there are any questions in your mind, you can ask away. I always reply back and would like to help out if I can🙂👍

[@theredcloak33]

When using the shader compiler commands the the game won't open the second time you launch it. I realized you have erase the .ushaderprecache files created in the "local/sparkingzero/saved" folder for the game to open again. Know any fixes? Nice vid btw.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Thanks for the compliment. No I dont know any fixes yet apart from launching the game in Dx11 like I stated in description. This problem happens to a lot but not everyone. I literally tested this before making the video and I can still play the game with them applied. Sadly later I came to know that people are having trouble with it, which surprised me because these lines are also applied by a lot of other people in a lot of other unreal engine games.

[@giacomotugnolo7989]

El mejo, thank you

[@DanteKOGTekken]

You're welcome! 👍🙂

[@ducksoncookies]

One thing I noticed is that the shader lines only cause the game to not load if it's on dx12. One thing I did to make it launch was add -dx11 to the launch options of the game in steam.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

wow nice find. I will add this helpful tip in the description🙂👍

[@TheTabbyNeko]

I would like to add that some of these settings do affect certain effects during gameplay in ways that might not be apparent immediately. Setting Effect Quality to Medium seems to lower the frequency of certain aura related effects, like particles or energy effects. Setting Post-Processing Quality to Low gets rid of the glow effect around characters and particles completely. I wish these settings were more clear in the game, and you could control certain aspects more, like reflections. It feels like there are hidden effects for certain settings.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Yeah it has always been in UE games. One setting controls a bunch of stuff together and you have to literally search for every change depending on the game. As for post process quality thing you mentioned, that is because it controls BLOOM level which is exactly the thing you described in your comment. BLOOM adds a glow to any light source in the game and as there are super saiyans xD there auras and particles act as light sources.

[@TheTabbyNeko]

@@DanteKOGTekken Speaking of UE... Using the FXAA will break some lighting effects. Really wish the game would make certain effects more obvious, as in, how they affect certain stuff.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@TheTabbyNeko ???but FXAA is just anti aliasing. Why would it effect lighting? Can you give an example where it happens

[@TheTabbyNeko]

@@DanteKOGTekken To be fair, it's not necessarily a lighting effect now that I think about it...? Anyways, the City stage has these streetlights, and they have this somewhat noticeable flickering white light. I would assume it's like a reflection of light or something. Second, if you use LSS Broly's Eraser Cannon with the Anti Aliasing set to low, the energy ball will flicker with a similar white light, and it's borderline epilepsy inducing.

[@Aryst4r]

settings are making my game lag. i get 120 FPs easily and had no issies, however now in a fight with Zamasu as future trunks on the city map it is lagging like crazy and slowing my game down...

[@DanteKOGTekken]

If you are talking about optimized ones, most of them are decreasing settings so they cannot make u lag. I you are talking about UE5 settings, I already said it cost performance so set according to your hardware and testing.

[@Aryst4r]

@@DanteKOGTekken I tried not using the AO lines annd not using the Shadow lines on the ini file, yet it does not work. game instantly crashes.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@Aryst4r I used the AO lines as well and did tons of testing because I had to make this video. It never crashed for me. Also these are universal UE5 commands that I have used on other UE games as well. I dont know why it is crashing for you.

[@Aryst4r]

@@DanteKOGTekken you misunderstood, I left out the shadow and AO lines. Keeping only the framerate, and shader loading lines in. Then it crashed for me everytime I loaded the game.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@Aryst4r Try only keeping the shader loading lines now. Maybe those are giving you problems.

[@nathanieljones8043]

imo I always turn grass off unless I know they programed it as a single texture witch looks the same but doesn't tank performance or take as long to do

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Yeah grass tanks a lot of performance but grass in an environment is my favorite part in gaming. I am a graphic geek xD which is why I never completely turn them off

[@dericsmart8992]

How to i get it to work online, i keep getting kicked out

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Unlocking fps does this. Set fps back to default when you wanna play online.

[@captainsuper0363]

Just want to make sure. While I do not have lag anymore in battle, is the game supposed to slower paced?

[@DanteKOGTekken]

If you mean you get slowdowns in battles, that only happens when you get below 60fps as the animation is tied to framerate. It will also happen if you have set 120 fps unlocked and you get lower from 120. Like I said in the video, the lower you fall from your set framerate, the sever the slowdown will be.

[@nunogoncalves5098]

​@@DanteKOGTekken No you are wrong, the game is made to be ran on a LOCKED 60fps. Not higher. Higher than that messes with the games speed just like below 60 does

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@nunogoncalves5098 it is fully playable offline if you can maintain 120fps at all times. It does not mess with the games speed unless you fall lower than that. Even at locked 60fps it messes with games speed if you fall from 60 just like I said before.

[@thunderjawgaming]

With Upscaling, you set the Resoltion Scale to 150 why? Should it not be 100? I have a 4070 laptop.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Once you have entered the upscaling lines, the value 75 in those lines overwrites the 150 value of render scale, so it means nothing after that. Actually the 150 was just set and left like that over there when I was setting the game for my own PC. Later I applied the upscaler lines to upscale the game to 4K resolution for myself.

[@PedroLucas-qi4yu]

i've edit in the engine but when i go open the game it wont start and my edits are all messed ups

[@PedroLucas-qi4yu]

like this [SystemSettings] r.Shadow.MaxResolution=8192 r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.01 r.Shadow.SpotLightTransitionScale=512 r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=16 r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=8192 r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=4 r.AmbientOcclusion.Method=1 r.GTAO.Combined=1 r.GTAO.ThicknessBlend=0 r.GTAO.Downsample=0 r.GTAO.FalloffEnd=50 r.GTAO.FalloffStartRatio=0 r.GTAO.SpatialFilter=0 r.GTAO.TemporalFilter=1 r.GTAO.UseNormals=1 r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2 r.PostProcessAAQuality=4 r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=1 r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=1 r.ScreenPercentage=75 bUseFixedFrameRate=True bSmoothFrameRate=False FixedFrameRate=120 FrameRateLimit=120.0 niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 D3D12.PSO.DiskCache=1 [/script/engine.engine] FixedFrameRate=120 bAllowMultiThreadedShaderCompile=True

[@DanteKOGTekken]

Just remove the shader related lines and you will be fine. They are causing issues for some people. These are the lines you should remove: niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 D3D12.PSO.DiskCache=1 bAllowMultiThreadedShaderCompile=True

[@Craftz0]

idk why im watching this, i run on max settings smoothly

[@DanteKOGTekken]

because the creator of this video took 3 long days of hard work and testing to make this video. Even though the creator waited so much for the release of this game, he did not play the game for 3 days while the rest of the world enjoyed it just for the sake of the video. Maybe that is why viewers are attracted to it without knowing the reason. 😋😋😋😋😋

[@Oneandonlycrip]

I have a 4090 and a Ryzen7950x3d but runs slow when I place the resolution on 200. So how do u do it?

[@Craftz0]

@@Oneandonlycrip oh I watched this video cuz idk what the resolution option does, so I just left it as is while all the other stuff are max settings. The game could run slow in online if the one Infront of you has bad internet btw

[@Oneandonlycrip]

@@Craftz0 oh okay. By any chance do you know it works? I’m trying to figure out what’s resolution for 4K

[@Craftz0]

@@Oneandonlycrip nope I still don't know, that's why I kept it as is

[@Oneandonlycrip]

So 150 resolution scale is 4K?

[@DanteKOGTekken]

No that was just what I set in testing purpose. After you apply upscaling, this value does not matter as it is replaced with 75 value. On the other hand if your question is just a general one, then resolution 1080p with 150 scale = 1440p resolution.

[@inceptionblue4109]

Anytime I make an edit to the engine.ini file the game won't load on steam

[@DanteKOGTekken]

That should not happen. Can you share your edits please

[@inceptionblue4109]

I'm using everything from anti aliasing and below: r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2 r.PostProcessAAQuality=4 r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=1 r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=1 r.ScreenPercentage=75 bUseFixedFrameRate=True bSmoothFrameRate=False FixedFrameRate=120 FrameRateLimit=120.0 niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 D3D12.PSO.DiskCache=1 [/script/engine.engine] FixedFrameRate=120 bAllowMultiThreadedShaderCompile=True

[@Aryst4r]

@@inceptionblue4109 if you arent using the shadow options you must remove the last line and the 2 lines before the [/script] therefore anything to do with shaders. I figured this out by process of elimination.

[@inceptionblue4109]

@@Aryst4r Thank you! My game finally started loading after I did this :D

[@InceptionAnims]

Whats the upscaling method

[@DanteKOGTekken]

It is described in the first part of the video. The unreal engine settings part. Basically TAAU, an upscaling feature present in unreal engine 5.

[@InceptionAnims]

@@DanteKOGTekkencan you play online with it?

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@InceptionAnims With unlocked FPS online is not possible as it kicks you outta match. All the rest of things are OK with online.

[@phantom_muchentuchen]

are these edits bannable if playing online?

[@DanteKOGTekken]

None of them are bannable as they are only visual upgrades only you can see but if you apply the unlocked FPS method, you will not be able to play online as it kicks you directly out of the match. I dont know why Namco dont like unlocked FPS...still it will not get you banned though. Just to make you feel more safe, these are unreal engine edits that has been done on other UE games for years and no one got banned for them.

[@tylerabel372]

​@DanteKOGTekken Thats because this game's physics, animations, etc are tied to frame rate. So thereotically you have an advantage if yours is set to unlocked compared to the other player being locked to 60.

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@tylerabel372 Yes but this is the only game where I see people not being able to play online with unlocked fps. Even Tekken 8 and Tekken 7 which is by the same company, has been played for years in unlocked fps mods.

[@tylerabel372]

@@DanteKOGTekken And I said why. I'm not sure if those other games are tied to framerate. It's a Japanese developer practice. All other budokais were the same.

[@Nolie876]

dosnt work online

[@DanteKOGTekken]

remove the 120fps lines and it will.

[@Tom-pl3wc]

Yo same gpu nice

[@DanteKOGTekken]

In that case, set resolution to 4K and apply upscaling like I have told and you will get 4k/60fps experience in game on high settings. Try it buddy. I have this setup as well 🙂👍

[@Aryst4r]

@@DanteKOGTekken I have 3060 Ti Gaming X card. where do I set max resolution and what value is that?

[@Aryst4r]

@@DanteKOGTekken Also My screen resolution is 2560x1440 and resolution scale is 100

[@DanteKOGTekken]

@@Aryst4r then just keep 1440p with render scale of 130 without upscaling

[@Aryst4r]

@@DanteKOGTekken then my FPS drops to 57 lol

[@BEAMPLUGGERINO]

Bro its not launching

[@DanteKOGTekken]

remove the stutter reducing lines. I already updated the description for that

[@BEAMPLUGGERINO]

@@DanteKOGTekken alr bet

[@nathanieljones8043]

I am proud to say I pirated the game because the steam version runs like complete shit

[@DanteKOGTekken]

I was going to buy it but the game is blocked in my region so I had no choice but to pirate as well. Sadly the game is so bad in every way that it is not even worth pirating. It is just good representation of a very bad, buggy and empty game with no content at all.