Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout

Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout

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Silky Smooth 30fps / Physics / Other Tweaks
By Wallachia
(EDIT) Most of the physics issues have been fixed with the game's post-launch patches! But if you have an older system or find that the physics break easily for you above 30fps, these fixes are for you.
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Fixing the Physics (And make 30fps look semi-decent)
So thanks to the way the game was made, phsyics are broken above 30fps. Play at 60fps? Not all the clothes will have working physics. Play higher than that? Jiggle physics won't work much.
So here's how we're gonna fix that.
Step 1:
Download Nvidia Inspector (Or any app/graphics card utility that can cap framerates)









Step 2:

So what we're doing is capping the game to as close to 30fps as possible. Nvidia Inspector let's me choose 29.5, so that's what I went with.
Now here's the important part. 30fps looks like garbage. But yet the console ports don't stutter half as bad as the game does with a cap on PC. Why is this?
Because our refresh rate is probably too high for the cap. If you run your display at 60hz or 144hz like me, you'll notice when you spin the camera around that movement looks janky. Yuck.
How do we fix this?
Simply lower the refresh rate of our monitor to as close to 30hz as possible.
Alternatively, you can make a custom resolution in Nvidia control panel if you have a memecard like I do. Set the desktop resolution to 60hz then enable this option in the graphics control panel. But then you gotta reset your desktop every time you aren't play Ryza.
Or you can use the tool I've been talking about. Sorry Radeon users. There are tools for you but I don't know how to use them. Try papa Google and let me know what works best for you.
Making the game look better.
Step 1:
Navigate to C:\Users\Owner\Documents\KoeiTecmo\Atelier Ryza or whatever path is similar for you.








Open up this .ini file.
So since we're running the game at 30fps if you followed the boo-, er... physics part of this guide, we can bump the resolution up and not suffer if you have a half-decent PC. The game automatically downscales to your resolution so this will get rid of all the jaggies. Good stuff.


































































If you hate DOF, you can try adding this line. It works in older Atelier games. I'm too lazy to test this so go do that and see if it works. Sorry if it doesn't.

Step 2:
Open the Nvidia Control panel and go to the 3D settings and then the settings for Ryza. Set anistropic filtering to the max.
Step 3:
Now go download ReShade. If you don't know what it is, google it.
When you open up the installer, point it your atelier_ryza.exe which is probably in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Atelier Ryza\.
Check DirectX10 or whatever it wants and then say yes to downloading preset filters. Uncheck all of them and pick and choose what you want. I like FXAA, SMAA, and Vibrance to add a bit of oomph and fix the few jaggies that are left with my memecard.
Step 4:
Open the game and hit the home button on your keyboard. If the resolution is so high that you can't read the font because it's smaller than Manly Tears' living quarters, hold ctrl and scroll on your mousewheel while the menu is open for reshade in-game.
Fart around with the sliders until it looks nice for you.

/Effort.
Outro
Hey you, thanks for reading this guide. I'm sorry it sucks. I slapped it together in about three minutes because I wanted to play more Atelier Ryza: Assassin's of Kings Edition Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series and 20lb/s of 30fps and Physics. Thought I'd apologize because I'm Canadian.
Tell me what you do to fix this game down in the comments and maybe I can edit it all together in this guide so this eventually looks like a piece of work instead of a half-assed attempt to help a few certain people. You're awesome.
16 Comments
Alpha-methyl 16 Feb, 2023 @ 12:44am 
Well, thanks for apologizing. It probably doesn't seem like it, but it helps.

Sincerely,
America
Mako 15 Sep, 2022 @ 7:50pm 
the absolute state
gintokiae1122988 21 Jun, 2022 @ 1:38pm 
This game ran poorly for me and even after wasting 4 hours fixing the settings it didn't change. After all that I just connected a controller and everything just worked. Hopefully this helps someone if everything else fails. :)
Ergnon 10 Jul, 2021 @ 10:24pm 
Wow, gave this a shot (even skipping ReShade bc lazy) since the graphics were so jagged and choppy I had a headache after half an hour, and it's MUCH better now. Thanks for the guide!
seiko 21 Jan, 2021 @ 2:43am 
@brenyey probably .i am running 144fps 1080p on my msi gaming laptop equipped with nvidia 3060 and core i7 10 gen intel processor
bassyey 1 Oct, 2020 @ 8:36am 
It's smooth on my build, I use Freesync. Always on 110fps+. I guess this is for an older build of the game?
Shedar 6 Aug, 2020 @ 8:57am 
DOF can be turned off in launcher>settings>graphics options
SibarrazCL 29 Jul, 2020 @ 9:30am 
I have black borders around my screen like if the game ran at 720p, even though everywhere says that it runs at 1080 (even the ini document)
stupid frickin idort 50505 16 Apr, 2020 @ 7:20pm 
but is there a method to reduce boob bounce? they act really weird it's almost as bad as monika's pulsating breastplate
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... 5 Mar, 2020 @ 9:19pm 
Thank you for the info! Tried this and didn't work for me, unfortunately. Just wanted to get rid of screen tearing and restore physics. What worked for me was just setting the Adaptive (Half-refresh rate) in the Nvidia Control Panel.
fx-8350, gtx 970 on a 60hz vizio TV. Still a great guide, tho- probably my specs.