Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered Settings for Low-end PC: RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti & RTX 4060

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered has taken the gaming community by storm. Despite being a Game Pass title, it has garnered around 200K concurrent players on Steam. The remake is built atop the Unreal Engine 5 using its cutting-edge (but not so optimized) visual technologies, including Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Shadows. Nonetheless, it can be optimized fairly easily for budget and midrange PCs.

Windows/System Settings to Optimize

• Enable Resizable BAR.
• Turn on Game Mode.
• Enable Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) and Windowed Optimizations.
• Use the Windows “High Performance” power profile and set your GPU power management mode to the same.
• Disable Memory Integrity. Windows Menu->VBS->Device Security.
• Ensure you use the proper XMP/EXPO memory profile (if available).
• Overclock your GPU if you’re narrowly missing the 60 FPS mark.
• Here’s a guide with more detailed instructions.

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered: PC Specs

Our Test Setup

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered: Low-end Benchmarks

Barring shader compilation-related stutters, Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered performed well on our entry-level setup. The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB averaged over 60 FPS at 1080p using a mix of high and ultra quality settings.

We used DLSS upscaling in balanced mode, with Software Lumen set to high-quality. Hardware ray tracing can be used alongside frame generation (FSR 3) for similar frame rates in the wilderness. DLSS 4-based upscaling can be paired with FSR 3 frame generation using the popular Nexus mod.

Use DLSS 4 with FSR 3-based Frame Generation

• Upgrade to DLSS 4 using our guide. Should be a straightforward switch from the NVIDIA app after the latest drive update.
• Download the Universal version of the Nexus mod.
• Copy the files from the dll_version folder to:
• Gamepass: XboxGames\The Elder Scrolls IV- Oblivion Remastered\Content\OblivionRemastered\Binaries\WinGDK
• Steam: Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion Remastered\OblivionRemastered\Binaries\Win64

VRAM Usage & CPU Bottlenecks

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered uses a bit over 8 GB of graphics memory in Software Lumen mode, and a GB less in hardware-accelerated mode (including frame generation). The system memory usage hovered around 10 GB, with the GPU power consumption peaking at 160W. The game was completely GPU-bound.

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered: Settings for Low-end PC