a lot of the atelier games are attrociously resource heavy for certain actions
a lot of the mysterious series games will, for instance, take most resources going on in your computer when viewing your synth guides and what not, or really most menuing to be fair. Its to the point that if you are watching a youtube video or maybe even running another program in the background, said program starts to lag like hell because these games, that are made with so much love but are certainly have its spaghetti code held together with duct tape, simply hog all the resources your computer offers such that the computer itself is brought to its knees.

I know this is months late, but here's a fix for anyone looking at this topic from some point in the future. The Atelier Graphics Tweak fixes this issue for a number of games in the series, specifically Rorona, Meruru and Ayesha off the top of my head.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1152300/discussions/0/3345546664208090238/

Originally posted by Sivek:

I know this is months late, but here's a fix for anyone looking at this topic from some point in the future. The Atelier Graphics Tweak fixes this issue for a number of games in the series, specifically Rorona, Meruru and Ayesha off the top of my head.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1152300/discussions/0/3345546664208090238/

I would like to add: that thread is actually outdated and you can no longer download it due to Google flagging as a virus.

This file is actually up-to-date and mantained as of 2023, and unlike what the title would suggest, it still supports almost all Atelier games: https://github.com/TellowKrinkle/atelier-sync-fix/releases/tag/atelier-sophie-20231022