The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is simply one of the few unmissable videogame experiences that deserves revisiting time and again and the Unreal Engine 5 powered Remaster not only brought the original game to the sky high technical standards of 2025, but also polished many of it’s core gameplay aspects to a level that wasn’t in the original release. This resulted in a game that not only looked better but also played better than it’s base version, just like a great remaster should be.
But despite all of that , the modernized version of the 2006 classic still suffers from an assortment of technical issues that can cause anything from glaring performance problems to other annoying bugs and worst of all, the game’s continuous drop in performance the more you play it which was a bug from the time it was launched, still remains.
“As you may have noticed, the game hasn’t been patched on PC since its 1.2 update arrived in July 2025 – a very short post-launch support window, given that the game was only released in late April the same year,” Digital Foundry stated. “Unfortunately, that abandonment means that the game remains in a state that could be described as anywhere from ‘annoying’ to ‘practically unplayable,’ depending on your appetite for persistent hitches and stutters, crashing and other profound technical woes.
“It’s hard to look beyond the initial design phase when it comes to apportioning blame, which sandwiched the original game’s architecture within an Unreal Engine 5 front-end. Both of these elements are notoriously CPU and GPU heavy, so the combination presents with extremely poor frame-time stability that gets worse the longer you play. Still, the lack of updates suggest that Bethesda didn’t feel like meaningful improvements were possible, and not even making the attempt feels even worse.”
Bethesda’s lack of post-launch care on a title as big and beloved such as Oblivion Remastered is disheartening in more ways than one, and hopefully they address the persistent issues pretty soon although it’s kind of becoming increasingly unlikely at this point.
The Oblivion Remaster went on to become an unprecedented success as the game was confirmed to reach a staggering 9 million players in the span of just 3 months after release, making it one of the biggest hits of last year.
