I finished the base game earlier today, doing the shivering isles now. It's a great remaster, but it definitely needs a few updates. Performance and bugs aside, the balance of the game is all over the place and the difficulty options are broken. Expert is way too hard, adept is too easy. Luckily, modders already fixed a lot of things.

I highly recommend modding your game to improve a few things:

• Ultimate Engine Tweaks improves performance at zero cost to graphics. It also helped significantly with stutters.

• Difficulty Slider Fixed makes the difference between difficulties less drastic

• More Damage makes everything (including enemies) deal more damage. A must have imo because Bethesda's school of spongy enemies is really outdated game design. 2x more damage on everything makes combat deadlier and more exciting.

P.S. there's an "unofficial oblivion remastered patch mod" that claims to fix thousands of bugs, but in reality it makes the game more unstable and has its own issues. Don't use it yet.

The Starlight spell (school of Illusion) casts but does nothing. If you look directly down it suddenly starts working.

I was doing a quest in Cheydenhal when the guards were leaving the barracks. All of them came out naked for some reason. After going into an inn and returning outside they were armored like they should have been.

The Unofficial ES wiki mentions some of the newly introduced bugs. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Remastered_Changes

If anyone has a solution for the vram going out of control, i would be so happy 😔. I only have 8gb of vram and it keeps going slightly above it and shoves stuff in normal ram. Causing the game to stutter its way into 25fps. If i then go into a building or fast travel, i get a fatal error and it crashes.

I have tried limiting the pooling vram in the engine.ini but that doesn't actually work.

Ran into a couple small bugs on xbox.

When making a potion the game crashed. After repeating it multiple times, I figured out that it only happened when mixing a stolen and non stollen ingredient. I have not retested since the last update.

Prior to the update, I could not create an enchanted item with a static effect at frostcrag spire. For example, a ring with nighteye. I could create one with detect life because it was a magnitude selector. This bug went away after the update.

Playing on a windows gaming laptop with the engine.ini fix ... Hardware lumen settings affect crash frequency.. if I have it maxed there are some areas that are so "sparkly" the game will gracefully crash with an error send option. Also the nights of the nine bug is still present where you go to all 9 shrines but you only show 8 so you have to find an alternate shrine to complete the quest.

Last night I tried doing the Corruption and Conscience quest in Cheydenhall and got to the very end.

It told me to wait 2 hours before meeting a dude at a tavern. I waited 2 hours and the dude never showed up. Turns out you’re supposed to wait in front of the tavern and not right next to him. Totally bugged, can’t complete it.

I looked it up and used a console command which reset his character and allowed me to finish the quest but at the expense of any and all future achievements (since using a single console command removes steam achievements).

Had to decide if quest completion or achievements were more important to me. Sucks.

Chameleon doesn't work on your quiver in third person unless you unequal something.

The black robe and hood keeps turning different colours or have the no-texture checkerboard, think it's something to do with casting Deathly Visage then travelling through a door with a load screen

One of Bethesda's greatest loading screen simulators of all time, maybe even better than Starfield.

Up to 3 instances of an infinite load randomly occurring on xbox

I'm hearing that the game is currently much more stable on Linux, for some reason. Haven't had a chance to test it myself.

When doing the quest in town after the first Oblivion gate, the guards didn't follow me into the building. Had to look up how to finish the quest to continue.

After that, the PoI marker for bringing Martin back to the monastery was at the wrong location (close to the edge of the map & high up in the sky), so quick travel killed us both. Had to look up where the monastery was to continue.

So pretty average Bethesda stuff.

Brother Jauffre and Martin were following me on horseback to cloud ruler temple.

Jauffre's head texture stretched about 20 feet out from his body haha