Bethesda has confirnmed a patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is on the best way, with the Nintendo Switch 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 yr, the tech consultants at Digital Foundry mentioned Oblivion Remastered suffered from important efficiency issues, together with hitches whereas roaming the open world, frame-rate issues, and even efficiency degrading slowly with extra taking part in time, probably because of a reminiscence leak. Then, in Could this yr, (*2*) to test in on the way it performs, and located lots of the similar points.
It was yet one more damning evaluation of Oblivion Remastered, which has a ‘principally constructive’ Steam person overview ranking for all evaluations, however a ‘combined’ person overview ranking for current evaluations. “Abandonware,” declared one destructive overview. “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 yr with out something.”
Now, Bethesda has mentioned a patch is certainly within the works, and it’ll add optimizations made for the Switch 2 model.
“We have heard your suggestions asking for a further patch for Oblivion Remastered,” Bethesda said in a tweet. “The Nintendo Switch 2 model of the sport has plenty of optimizations that we’re trying into bringing to different platforms and we are going to share extra once we are in a position.”
That’s fairly imprecise, however followers have responded positively to the assertion. “Insane that they’ve mentioned NOTHING about this for over a yr, however glad to lastly hear one thing,” one fan mentioned on the Oblivion subreddit. “This higher be substantial.”
Oblivion Remastered, total, looks as if an enormous 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 gamers, and Bethesda improvement chief Todd Howard instructed IGN in December that the studio was “actually, actually happy with how nicely it did.” So it appears considerably odd that the sport hasn’t seen an replace since July 2025.
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