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(Slightly) Early Access: Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems (Patreon)

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2025-04-26 09:51:23
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2026-06
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This one goes live later today (3pm BST) but Supporters can watch now.

Oblivion Remastered does a good job in thoroughly modernising the 2006 visuals with the latest rendering technology - but the more you play, the more the experience is marred by excessively poor performance. The game has profound CPU problems that make a smooth experience on PC seemingly impossible - even on the most powerful hardware. Meanwhile, the graphics side of the equation is inexplicably heavy on your GPU. There are foundational issues in this game that should never had made it into shipping code. Alex reports.

Downloads: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/oblivion-remastered-pc-impressive-remastering-dire-performance-problems

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Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems

Oblivion Remastered does a good job in thoroughly modernising the 2006 visuals with the latest rendering technology - but the more you play, the more the experience is marred by excessively poor performance. The game has profound CPU problems that make a smooth experience on PC seemingly impossible - even on the most powerful hardware. Meanwhile, the graphics side of the equation is inexplicably heavy on your GPU. There are foundational issues in this game that should never had made it into shipping code. Alex reports. Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to new videos, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Go here to check out DF merch! https://store.digitalfoundry.net Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:27 Frame-Times Are Bad 00:03:42 Can You Improve CPU Performance? 00:06:46 GPU Settings Recommendations 00:08:30 Conclusion

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Bigmanupstairs

The stutter is just as bad on the PS5 Pro (not surprising). It's so bad that it gives me a headache when exploring the open world.

Spodlude

I hope you're aware that the latest update removed all upscaling options! Also FSR 4 doesn't work on gamepass as the driver cant see the game

tonright

Somewhere in the combination of pop-in, stutter, and just the way the camera moves hits me with just overwhelming motion sickness and nausea. I had to keep looking away from the video because I actually felt like I was about to vomit. I'm hiding here in the comments just listening to the audio as of about two thirds of the way in because I can't do it anymore. The only other game to make me feel similarly nauseous was Kirby Air Ride. That's been what I have been comparing nausea/motion sickness problems against for all of these years and that was entirely camera movement. Never felt as bad as this remaster before and I have played games using some really bad VR setups.

Simon Henfrey

Im glad Alex torn this to shreds and its awful to know that developers feel like they can release games in this state and it not be a problem. .

dark_bt

Legitimately wondering if this is salvageable or not. It seems like a flawed plan from the start to combine an old engine with its own traversal stutter problems into a new engine with traversal stutter problems. If anyone has the resources to try and overcome this sort of fundamental issue, it would be Microsoft, and the fact that they have chosen to ship it regardless makes me very nervous about whether future patches will do anything of significance.