Metaphor: ReFantazio: Metaphor: ReFantazio Optimization & Known Fixes

Hello everyone, my name is ‘Sumi’. I am a guide creator. My goal here is to make this guide as simple to follow and as accurate as possible, it’s good to remember that we all make mistakes, even those who push to be perfect.

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Metaphor: ReFantazio is a new game so all of this is subject to change (and will be updated accordingly in time). It seems that users are running into a variety of issues with this game and ATLUS is aware of performance issues. For now, let’s see how well we can alleviate those issues.

I will try my best to periodically update but I WILL miss things. Please leave a comment if you know of a fix I missed, know a correction to one of my fixes or have some insight to provide on my settings.

Rendering Scale – Leave this at 100%. If your PC is beefy try 200%.
Ambient Occlusion – Off (can lead to 40% or more FPS gains)
Texture Quality – High
Frame Rate Cap – Unlimited (or your monitor’s display rate)
VSync – Off

Reasoning: Ambient Occlusion doesn’t really add much but is supposedly the culprit for so much performance loss. As always, if you want you can test with it on, however I have found better results on my system with it off and it seems many share that experience as well.

Here is an example of Ambient Occlusion on (left) and off (right).

I always try my best to include Steam Deck settings for these guides, because I know a good chunk of the base on Steam are Deck users (I even own one!) so I’ve gone ahead and found the recommended settings for Steam Deck, and have tested them myself. As always sources are listed at the bottom of the guide.

Rendering Scale – Leave this at 100%
Ambient Occlusion – Off
Texture Quality – High
Frame Rate Cap – 30
VSync – Off

Rendering Scale – Drop to 75%
Ambient Occlusion – Off
Texture Quality – Normal
Frame Rate Cap – 60
VSync – Off

According to some users, if you absolutely want to squeeze out some FPS gains you can use AFMF2 (Frame Generation). I am unsure if Nvidia users can use this, but if you are on AMD you can do the following:

1. Open AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition
2. Select the “Gaming” tab and find Metaphor: ReFantazio
2b. If you can’t find it, try refreshing and if that doesn’t work, click the three dots in the top right and manually add the .exe from your game folder.
3. Under “Graphics” turn on AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 – Manual.
4. No need to mess with the settings when it’s on, Auto seems to work fine.

This is not guaranteed to increase your frames and may look wonky depending on your system, but it is absolutely worth a try for AMD users as it takes ~2 minutes to test.

Ultrawide user here (getting sick of this haha). For some reason games nowadays tend to just.. not have ultrawide support, but fortunately people like Lyall exist and create patches for these games almost immediately.

Please note that this is still very experimental and you will run into some issue, but that’s just the price we have to pay to utilize our displays I guess!

This fix includes the following:

• Support for any resolution/aspect ratio.
• Fix cropped FOV at <16:9.
• Correctly scaled movies.

If you want to remove or edit any of the fixes listed you can simply do so via the MetaphorFix.ini located in your game folder.

1. Download “MetaphorFix_vX.zip” over at this link[github.com].
2. Navigate to your game folder, this is normally located over at:
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Metaphor ReFantazio
3. Extract the MetaphorFix_vX.zip in this folder.

This is the exact same file as the Ultrawide Fix, but I figured it would be appropriate to give Ultrawide users their own section so people don’t get confused, this fix includes the following:

• Intro skip.
• Disabled ALT+F4/exit handler.
• Remove 60fps cap in menus.
• Fix 8-way analog movement.
• Custom resolution scale.
• Adjust resolution of ambient occlusion.
• Disable dash blur + speed lines.
• Adjust level of detail distance.
• Disable black outlines.

If you want to remove or edit any of the fixes listed you can simply do so via the MetaphorFix.ini located in your game folder.

1. Download “MetaphorFix_vX.zip” over at this link[github.com].
2. Navigate to your game folder, this is normally located over at:
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Metaphor ReFantazio
3. Extract the MetaphorFix_vX.zip in this folder.

Thanks to the following individuals for creating the necessary information for this guide to exist.

u/YouOnly-LiveOnce – AFMF2 Information

Lyall – MetaphorFix[github.com]

Noah Kupetsky – Steam Deck Optimization[steamdeckhq.com]