Bethesda has confirnmed a patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is on the best way, with the Nintendo Swap 2 model now out the door.
Oblivion Remastered has been with out a patch on PC since July 2025, and nonetheless suffers from points that plagued it at launch, together with worsening efficiency the extra you play. In Could final 12 months, the tech consultants at Digital Foundry stated Oblivion Remastered suffered from significant performance problems, together with hitches whereas roaming the open world, frame-rate issues, and even efficiency degrading slowly with extra taking part in time, probably as a consequence of a reminiscence leak. Then, in Could this 12 months, Digital Foundry revisited Oblivion Remastered to examine in on the way it performs, and located lots of the identical points.
It was one more damning evaluation of Oblivion Remastered, which has a ‘largely optimistic’ Steam consumer evaluation score for all evaluations, however a ‘combined’ consumer evaluation score for latest evaluations. “Abandonware,” declared one detrimental evaluation. “There are nonetheless obtrusive bugs and efficiency points. They up to date twice after launch and now we’re getting shut to at least one 12 months with out something.”
Now, Bethesda has stated a patch is certainly within the works, and it’ll add optimizations made for the Swap 2 model.
“We have heard your suggestions asking for an extra patch for Oblivion Remastered,” Bethesda said in a tweet. “The Nintendo Swap 2 model of the sport has numerous optimizations that we’re trying into bringing to different platforms and we are going to share extra once we are ready.”
That’s fairly imprecise, however followers have responded positively to the assertion. “Insane that they’ve stated NOTHING about this for over a 12 months, however glad to lastly hear one thing,” one fan stated on the Oblivion subreddit. “This higher be substantial.”
Oblivion Remastered, total, looks as if a giant success for Bethesda, which contracted Virtuos to assist remake its much-loved role-playing sport utilizing Unreal Engine 5. It’s seen over 9 million players, and Bethesda development chief Todd Howard told IGN in December that the studio was “actually, actually happy with how properly it did.” So it appears considerably odd that the sport hasn’t seen an replace since July 2025.
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