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Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Reminiscences & the Envisioned Land  launches subsequent week throughout Steam and consoles worldwide as the most recent mainline Atelier collection sport. Forward of its launch, I have been taking part in the Steam model on my PC handhelds to take a look at the options obtainable within the last PC construct, the way it scales on Steam Deck and ROG Ally, and extra. The Atelier collection has been principally advantageous on Steam Deck with some exceptions, and it has been attention-grabbing to see how the most recent and most formidable title within the collection scales on Valve’s handheld.

Atelier Yumia PC graphics choices

With Atelier Ryza 2: Misplaced Legends and the Secret Fairy, Koei Tecmo and Gust improved the standard of their PC ports fairly a bit. That carries over into Atelier Yumia in all however one space. The graphics tab within the choices menu permits you to modify decision (540p to 4K), window mode (fullscreen, windowed, borderless), body fee restrict (30, 60, 120, 144, limitless), toggle v-sync, general graphics high quality preset (customized, low, commonplace, excessive), texture high quality (low, commonplace, excessive), shadow high quality (low, commonplace, excessive), native reflections high quality (low, commonplace, excessive), impact high quality (low, commonplace, excessive), anti-aliasing (off, FXAA, TAA), depth of subject (off, low, commonplace, excessive), toggle ambient occlusion, toggle bloom, toggle gentle shafts, draw distance (shut, commonplace, lengthy), grass draw distance (shut, commonplace, lengthy), grass density (low, commonplace, excessive), toggle movement blur, shadow draw distance (shut, commonplace, lengthy), mannequin animation distance setting (shut, commonplace, lengthy), toggle volumetric fog, degree of element distance (shut, commonplace, lengthy), terrain high quality (low, commonplace, excessive), toggle dynamic decision, and use Intel XeSS. 

Having an upscaling possibility is nice, however I am undecided why solely XeSS is included with no FSR on AMD {hardware}. In our preview, James commented on the dearth of DLSS as nicely. If you happen to use XeSS, the dynamic decision is disabled as anticipated, however you should utilize XeSS set to extremely efficiency, efficiency, balanced, high quality, extremely high quality, extremely high quality plus, or native anti-aliasing.

Atelier Yumia PC management choices

On the management aspect, Atelier Yumia has help for controllers in addition to keyboard and mouse gameplay. You may rebind the controls for each enter choices. That is notable as a result of the console variations don’t provide button rebinding as of this writing. On the flipside, the PC model of Atelier Yumia doesn’t provide the DualSense adaptive set off or haptic suggestions help current within the PS5 model. The PC model additionally permits you to swap the verify and cancel buttons in Atelier Yumia. 

When utilizing keyboard and mouse, you get applicable button prompts and can even modify the principle and sub button for nearly each motion in-game throughout controls for the sector, space map, fight, synthesis, constructing, and picture mode. 

Atelier Yumia Steam Deck efficiency

Atelier Yumia on Steam helps Steam Cloud and runs at 16:9 side ratio resolutions solely. When launching it for the primary time, I initially thought it could run with out points on Steam Deck after the promising opening space, however that prologue location was a lot smaller in scope than what adopted. When entering into the open world inside an hour of taking part in, I spotted this was a 30fps goal sport for Steam Deck. In truth, if you happen to play on the “Commonplace” graphics preset, Atelier Yumia runs between 24 and 35fps at worst. This setting additionally makes use of XeSS balanced. 

Word: A number of the screenshots have been edited to clean out any potential spoilers.

Given how demanding the sport is on consoles as nicely, I wasn’t anticipating to get 60fps, however you’ll need to play with upscaling to get near a locked 30fps on the usual preset. Except for efficiency, the UI scales nicely and the sport generall feels superb on the Deck. I mapped a number of the buttons to the again paddles as nicely. I even have entry to the PS5 and Nintendo Change variations, which I cowl in a separate article that I like to recommend studying for context of how the sport scales throughout excessive finish and hybrid consoles.

Atelier Yumia Steam Deck really useful settings

My really useful settings will cowl two features in Atelier Yumia on Steam Deck. The primary pertains to the non-graphics elements of the sport. I like to recommend growing the vertical and horizontal digital camera motion pace. I set each to the utmost and disabled digital camera autocorrect and digital camera shake. I then set the textual content measurement to 3 for subtitles to make them extra readable on the hand-held display. The ultimate suggestion I’ve outdoors graphics is growing the assorted quantity sliders to their most or simply beneath. The default audio output appears comfortable if you happen to play utilizing the Deck’s personal audio system (it is a larger difficulty on the LCD mannequin). 

Attending to the Atelier Yumia really useful graphics choices for Steam Deck, you have got two choices: aiming for a locked 30fps or a principally steady 30fps with higher picture high quality. For the previous, I like to recommend taking part in on the low preset with XeSS set to balanced and 720p. This leads to a softer picture, however efficiency could be very steady within the open subject, close to large buildings, in cities with loads of NPCs, and through fight within the time I put into the sport on Steam Deck. 

For an expertise that targets 30fps with some drops in very demanding areas, I like to recommend utilizing the usual preset with shadows set to low after which guaranteeing XeSS is about to balanced and the sport is working at 720p. You must also cap the body fee to 30 since the usual preset leaves this at 60fps. If you need crisper visuals at the price of chopping again on some settings with the identical body fee goal, use the low preset, 720p, and XeSS set to high quality. Word that even the excessive preset makes use of XeSS native anti-aliasing by default whereas each different presets use XeSS balanced.

If you happen to aren’t a fan of upscaling in any respect, Atelier Yumia runs round 24fps in its extra demanding areas on Steam Deck at a local 720p and the low preset. Even the open space outdoors the Atelier dropped to the mid 20s usually with none motion on display. This is without doubt one of the early elements of the sport that could be very demanding although. Utilizing these settings in later places resulted in higher efficiency together with it hitting the 40s, however the body fee is just too unstable to intention for a 40fps expertise with first rate visuals proper now. Only for testing functions, I attempted working Atelier Yumia on the excessive preset and 720p. The tip result’s round 15-18fps within the open areas with out upscaling and round 21-22fps with XeSS native anti-aliasing. 

Additionally simply to see how a lot I might push the body fee up, I set it to 540p and XeSS extremely efficiency on Steam Deck. I noticed it go between 40 and 70fps with this. I would not be stunned if Atelier Yumia finally ends up with a Steam Deck Playable ranking from Valve since there may be some textual content within the menus that could be too small for the Verified ranking. 

Atelier Yumia ROG Ally efficiency impressions and really useful settings

In its present state, Atelier Yumia is a bit rougher on ROG Ally. I say this not due to the efficiency, however stability. I commonly bumped into the sport crashing when altering graphics settings whereas in-game. This does not occur on Steam Deck in any respect or when doing the modifications on the title display on ROG Ally. Barring that, I used to be curious to see how I might push Atelier Yumia on ASUS’ handheld. My ROG Ally is about to make use of 5GB VRAM and I did my testing within the 25W turbo mode. 

When taking part in on the usual preset at 1080p (capped to 30fps) and shadows set to low, Atelier Yumia runs at a principally stable 30fps with some drops to 27fps in busier moments. The early stress check space of the Atelier constructing noticed dips to 26fps as nicely. To get a 30fps when working at 1080p, I like to recommend utilizing XeSS set to efficiency reasonably than balanced and the shadows set to low.

Because the Steam Deck is not actually succesful of working Atelier Yumia at 60fps, I questioned in regards to the ROG Ally. Even when working at 720p, XeSS extremely efficiency, and the low preset, a locked 60fps isn’t attainable in Atelier Yumia on ROG Ally. It drops to the 40s usually. Given the way it runs on ROG Ally within the 25W mode, I ended up taking part in extra on my Steam Deck for stability and higher battery life. In truth, I even pushed it all the way down to 540p and tried the identical settings, and it dropped beneath 60fps throughout exploration. I like to recommend taking part in at a mixture of the usual and low preset at 1080p with a 30fps cap for one of the best expertise on the ROG Ally proper now.

Atelier Yumia is a beautiful sport that I’ve loved taking part in lots throughout totally different platforms. I hope the crashing can get resolved in patches. It’s value noting that Chao bumped into loads of crashes as nicely on an RDNA 3 GPU, however James did not in any respect on an RDNA 2 laptop computer or Steam Deck. I did not run into any crashing on my Steam Deck LCD and OLED fashions both. I am undecided what the trigger is for this, however I wished to make a remark of the crashing we bumped into on particular {hardware}. I like to recommend making an attempt out the demo that can launch in a couple of days to see the way it runs in your setup as nicely.