Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems
Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems
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Yes. It runs like dog water. And it seems people are just looking past it because of the nostalgia effect.
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My FPS drops from 60 to like 25, but that's rarely. It's not like it's a constant 25.
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I had to tweak quite a bit but it's running at a stable 60 fps at 1440p now. I wouldn't say I'm looking past it, just enjoying it in spite of the performance issues.
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And this is why I don't buy day 1. Performance actually looks reasonable compared to other day 1 releases, but it's still not what I want to play. I bet most of these issues will be resolved in a month or two, and definitely resolved by the first sale, so I'll hold off. It's not like there's going to suddenly be content to miss out on, it's a remaster, so waiting is absolutely reasonable.
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It runs like most UE5 games.
Like shit.
It’s playable though, that’s all I want right now.
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It runs like most Bethesda games.
Like shit.
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Double shit when it’s in UE5
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Mentioned this in another thread yesterday:
Like many UE games over the years, they didn't properly optimize Unreal itself for their use, and there were already several ini tweaks up on the Nexus to remedy this the day of launch.
Went from 27 average fps when in exterior cells to a solid 60, with an unsupported GPU by just using one of these ini tweaks.
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While the updated config I installed helped, I still get noticeable frame drops on my pretty beefy PC in the overworld.
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For day one, performance is actually fine. I have much bigger gripes than getting fps dips in the open zones. Like levelling ffs. I have 100 strength, willpower, and blades, but am doing less damage to mobs now than I was doing in the beginning of the game. Or levelled loot drops and quests.
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So ... just like the original Oblivion?
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Yeah, and I always stop playing the original early for the same reason.
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The key to oblivion is to pick tag skills that you won't use. If your build is a stealth archer, pick block blunt and restore. You only level when your tagged skills level, so your archery illusion and sneak will be 100 but your character will be sub level 10 so you'll basically be a god
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The level system doesn't work that way anymore. Now when you level up, it doesn't matter what skills you leveled up when you get a new level, you always get 12 points (called "virtues") to spread around to any stat. Luck, however, takes 4 "virtues" to level one point, while the others are just 1:1 and you can add up to 5 at a time.
I can level up entirely through using Agility linked skills but then put my stat points into Strength and Intelligence instead of agility.
The real issue has to do with the level scaling on enemies still being the worst of any Elder Scrolls game because they didn't change anything about that from the OG. So once you're level 50, everything has the best weapons and armor on them.
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Doesn't work in the remaster; they changed so that all skills contribute to level up progress.
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Sort of. The new leveling system has minor skills contribute to your levels, to a lesser degree. IIRC it’s something like 10 major levels or 20 minor levels (or some combination thereof) to get a character level.
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There are mods that help with this
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True, but I'm currently playing with my kids on Xbox too.
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Its Lumen. Its 100% Lumen.
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It’s Unreal 5 slop with OG Oblivion running in the Background. Of course it has these issues.
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Yeah, I wonder if that's perhaps the result of basically stapling the old game engine onto UE5 in order to preserve the core gameplay. Back when Oblivion was first released, multicore CPUs were incredibly rare, so it's likely the engine was not built to take advantage of them. But ever since then, most of the improvements in CPUs have come in the form of adding more cores rather than increasing clock speed, and it's by no means trivial to convert single-threaded code into multi-threaded. Most likely it would require a complete rewrite, which they'd probably want to avoid in order not to introduce more bugs.
But of course, it could also just be UE5's fault, since even a single core on a modern CPU should not be slower than a 2006 model.
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It does not work like that, no. But you arrived at that on your own somehow
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I've been playing it on steam deck, it's definitely playable but I wouldn't call it smooth.
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Does it freeze up all the time like in the Digital Foundry video?
If not I'm wondering if it's that stupid shader compiling thing that has plagued PC games all generation.
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I've gotten a lot of freezing and stuttering playing on my desktop PC (Linux with Proton). The deck actually seems to be more stable, though it is locked to 30 fps and textures still take a minute to load sometimes.
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It's poorly optimized. At version 0.4 is probably the first thing that looked decent, with final art in place, but no QA or optimization done. My bet is that they had to launch earlier than expected due to the rumors, or they extended way past the due date and the money for the project ran out. If successful, probably optimization will take place, but they are waging on it.
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Bethesda game runs like ass
That's not news
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I run it medium with a 7600xt at 3440x1440. Seems fine to me
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I'm having relatively good performance in 6600rx on Linux but after a while theres some sort of GPU memory leak (would be my guess) where fps halves until the game is restarted.
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People from the original title want to capture the essence of buggy Berhesda gaming for future generations!
How thoughtful!
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I don't trust this shit anymore after City Skylines 2 ran just fine. A bunch of people lost their shit anyways.
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I tried it again recently and starts out tolerable but gets worse the bigger your city gets, even when you lower settings. It would be one thing if the game looked amazing and had these deep, detailed simulations… but it just looks okay and the digital corner-cutting trickery becomes obvious when you start looking closely. I feel like there is something fundamentally wrong under the hood of Skylines 2.
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I've had cities in the hundreds of thousands with no issues even if it does start to drop in framerate.
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If somebody didn't realize it was almost certainly going to run poorly the second it was revealed to use UE5, I wouldn't even know what to say to them.
Can we please stop blaming UE5 for sloppy development and poor QA?
As soon as someone releases a UE5 game that doesn’t run like ass
I'm not blaming UE5, but I'm capable of pattern recognition. There's a pattern of developers not fixing UE5 issues and releasing games with them still present. The fault lies with both game developers and UE developers.