'Wizardry!' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered's Most Popular Mod Is an 'Ultimate Engine Tweaks' PC Performance Fix — and There's a Very Good Reason Why

If you’re 1 of the galore fans of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered connected PC, you mightiness person noticed the crippled has much than a fewer issues.

According to the tech experts astatine Digital Foundry, Oblivion Remastered suffers from “dire” show problems connected PC. Video shaper Alex Battaglia called it “perhaps 1 of the worst-running games I've ever tested for Digital Foundry.”

“Even if you're moving the astir almighty hardware around, the stuttering is egregious, dragging down the acquisition to the constituent wherever I truly don't recognize however this was considered bully capable for release,” Battaglia said.

“And beyond the hitching, we are looking astatine 1 of the astir bizarrely resource-intensive games I've ever tested - truthful adjacent if you're OK with lurching stutter, you'll beryllium turning down the settings conscionable to support the mean frame-rate looking acceptable.”

Perhaps it comes arsenic nary astonishment past to find that the most-downloaded Oblivion Remastered mod presently connected Nexus Mods is P40L0’s ‘Ultimate Engine Tweaks (Anti-Stutters - Lower Latency - No Film Grain - No Chromatic Aberration - Lossless),’ which has been downloaded a whopping 386,604 times successful little than a week.

Here’s the mod description:

“Definitive Unreal ‘Engine.ini’ changes with the extremity to region astir stutters, amended show and stability, alteration input latency, amended representation clarity. All with nary ocular loss.”

“After months of UE5 testing, I would similar to stock my definitive customized ‘Engine.ini’ changes for the game,” P40L0 explained.

“My extremity was to conscionable see arsenic galore optimizations arsenic imaginable (both for CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD) successful bid to region astir stuttering, amended performance, trim input latency and amended representation clarity (e.g. by removing Film Grain & Chromatic Aberration, optimize DLSS/FSR upscaling and more) each without immoderate ocular nonaccomplishment nor introducing glitches oregon crashes.”

Reaction to the mod from those who downloaded it is overwhelmingly positive. “Stutter beryllium gone! Simply amazing, thanks!” declared chubbyd07. “This .ini is simply a miracle. From 15-20 fps extracurricular the situation to 65-70 stable. Running connected 3600XT and a 2060 with 20GB of RAM (yes),” added yeeto51. “Uhm, what the hell! I went from 60fps connected High Preset astir Waynon Priory to 90-110fps connected the aforesaid location. Wizardry!!” said BabaSmith.

While the PC mentation intelligibly has issued, Oblivion Remastered remains hugely popular, with an awesome Steam concurrent highest subordinate count, and implicit 4 cardinal players crossed each platforms. On Steam Oblivion Remastered has a ‘very positive’ idiosyncratic reappraisal rating.

However, a hotfix pushed unrecorded connected April 25 has affected Microsoft Store players’ UI settings for graphics, specifically related to upscaling and anti-aliasing. At the clip of this article’s publication. Microsoft Store players (so, those playing via Game Pass for PC), cannot set those settings owed to the contented with the settings UI. Bethesda has said it’s connected the case.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Oblivion Remastered, including a study connected a subordinate who managed to flight the confines of Cyrodiil to research Valenwood, Skyrim, and adjacent Hammerfell, the rumored mounting of The Elder Scrolls VI.

We've besides got a broad usher to everything you'll find successful Oblivion Remastered, including an expansive Interactive Map, implicit Walkthroughs for the Main Questline and each Guild Quest, How to Build the Perfect Character, Things to Do First, each PC Cheat Code, and overmuch more.

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