My poor sister has the worst PC ever.

But it can run Windows, and has played through Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Reload (UE4!)... fairly well in fact...

So of course, next to play is Metaphor ReFantazio, easy you’d think? A game that uses the same engine as Persona 5... well it has problems.

First of all, it uses a lot of VRAM, the poor GTX 1050 only has 2GB of VRAM, so be sure to close all your programs and kill explorer before you start the game (you can write a script for this!).

Next, some scenes are incredibly CPU demanding, I have no idea what ATLUS did, but the little fighter of a Ryzen 3 2200G will hit 100% CPU utilisation... and you will get constant stutters, leaving the city area entirely unplayable!

But you can alleviate these stutters with two mods, first install Special K, as it generally improves CPU performance, next after that, download and follow the instructions for MetaphorFix, you need to manually delete the winmm.dll file in the game directory and then add MetaphorFix.asi as a plug-in in the Special K menu.

Configure the MetaphorFix mod with MetaphorFix.ini, I changed the LOD and shadow map settings, decreasing them drastically (it’s insane how these settings can’t be configured in game, it’s a PC game ATLUS)...

And that’s how you can avoid buying your sister PC parts! Thanks FATLUS!