Summary
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredappears to be experiencing some performance issues on Steam Deck, and players may need to heavily tweak settings to achieve playable frame rates. After months of rumors and speculation, Bethesda fully unveiled and releasedThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredon April 22 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Nearly 20 years after the game’s original release,The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredtakes players back to Cyrodiilduring the age of the Oblivion Crisis and the end of the Third Era. Developed in Unreal Engine 5, the remaster retains the game’s original voicework, scenario structure, and other memorable RPG elements while vastly improving the visuals and gameplay systems. However, the use of Unreal Engine 5 means thatThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredis fairly demanding on PCs, thanks to dynamic lighting systems, virtual shadow mapping, and other intensive features.The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredmay be Steam Deck verified, but the game has some problems running on the handheld system.
After bootingThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredon Steam Deck, players will likely notice its graphics settings pre-configured to the low preset with Intel’s XeSS upscaling solution being set to Balanced, as spotted byPCGamesN. These settings are not enough to getthe PC version ofThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredrunning at a stable 30 FPS on Steam Deck, since the platform is having problems running the game. Players must further tweak the settings and toggle Performance or Ultra Performance to increase the frame rate and avoid stutters and drops, but they may run into other issues in the process, such as reduced image clarity. Moreover, the use of frame generation to increase the frame rate can introduce input lag and ghosting if the starting frame rate is too low.
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredis Struggling to Run at 30 FPS or Higher on Steam Deck
Currently,The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredrequires 125 GB of free storage space, and Steam recommends gamers have at least 16 GB of RAM on their PCs to play the game. The Steam Deck may have 16 GB of RAM internally, but players will need 32 GB of RAM and powerful modern GPUs and CPUs in order to run the game at recommended settings. If recent rumors are true, players may potentially enjoy a better handheld gaming experience playingThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredon Nintendo Switch 2.
