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Oblivion Remastered PC: impressive modernisation blighted by dire performance problems
Digital Foundry says that Oblivion Remastered runs exceptionally poorly on PC - saying it's one of the worst-performing games they've ever tested.
The limited polygon budgets, basic effects and lighting struggle to produce some kind of approximation of a real world - which proves to be computationally challenging even on what was considered to be high-end hardware way back when. When The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion launched in 2006, it challenged PC hardware with its big open world and shader model three graphics - but the game's performance characteristics have been largely forgotten today. On as close to like-for-like testing that we could get, the same stuttering issues presented - so let's be clear here - until Bethesda and Virtuos address the foundational CPU-based problems in this port, there is no route to what we would class as acceptable performance for a modern PC game.
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