Arc System Works has released a statement and a set of troubleshooting steps after the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta launched with widespread gameplay and performance issues being reported on PC, with numerous complaints pertaining to the PC version seen on social media this weekend, as reported by Push Square.
Here’s the context: Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a live service project, developed by Arc System Works, As we covered in our EVO 2026 breakdown, the game was – which makes a broken PC beta considerably more damaging than it would be for a single-player release.
The PS5 version appears to be running cleanly by most accounts. The problem is on PC, where players have reported everything from low frame rates Arc System Works‘ official statement acknowledged ongoing investigation into the performance issues and offered several community-suggested workarounds: manually warming up the game’s shaders before jumping into matches, disabling frame generation, and turning off anti-cheat.
None of those are trivial asks for a general audience. Telling players to disable anti-cheat to get a game running
The platform holder but the quality bar on PC has been inconsistent enough that it’s becoming a story in its own right. The beta context offers some cover – – but the scale and severity of the complaints here, and
some players and community voices have pointed to Sony-related background services launching alongside the game as a possible contributor to the CPU load. The Push Square piece flags this but is appropriately skeptical, noting it’s unclear how much of the noise is genuine technical reporting versus negative sentiment about PlayStation looking for a new target. That distinction matters – don’t treat the background-services theory as confirmed.
. , but with the game going live in a matter of days, Arc Sys certainly has a lot of optimisation work to do on the PC. ,
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