The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

VRAM Use – Is 8GB enough? Not really…

Oblivion Remastered used a lot of VRAM

Oblivion Remastered can use a lot of GPU memory, especially at Ultra settings. On our RTX 4070 Ti GPU, we found that this game could easily use more than 11 GB of VRAM during our benchmark runs. As for system memory use, that could go over 20 GB. This game is RAM-heavy, so much so that it doesn’t make much sense.

This isn’t a PC-only remaster. The Remaster is available on consoles, including Xbox Series S. Remember, the Xbox Series S has 10GB of combined system memory. If this game can run on an Xbox Series S, why can it use more than 30GB of combined CPU and GPU memory on PC? Yes, PC likely takes textures and graphical settings up a notch, but three times the memory usage?

Even using the game’s lowest settings at 4K sees VRAM use of almost 8GB on our Nvidia GPU. We will note here that this game can struggle running on GPUs with 8GB of VRAM, especially so for AMD GPUs. Honestly, we feel that this game deserves some kind of VRAM-optimising update that targets 8GB GPUs.

Even at 1080p, Ultra settings result in more than 8GB of VRAM usage. This is another game where 8GB of VRAM is simply too little to run this game optimally. We noted more frequent stutters when playing this game on 8GB GPUs, with the game being practically unplayable on some graphics cards.