Exactly the same for me, once my little one was born I didn’t have time for anything I couldn’t throw in my pocket. My MIL randomly gave me a cheap light up yoyo, and the rest is history
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Oh interesting! Didn’t know that. What did you think of Oblivion’s main quests?
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That was my last play through, I got out of the sewers and booked it to the gates of madness. Then dropped everything i owned before going in
Best starting point I’ve ever had, goal was to enter the main storyline after completing shivering isles, but skooma had other plans
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I’d totally wait a bit before really committing on purchasing a whole new rig just to play this in ultra settings unless your rig is on the entry level side.
There seems to be a bit of an optimization issue from what I’ve seen thus far this early into the release. The RTX 4090 is struggling to keep frames above 60 at ultra (4k) with dlss off. Which is kind of bonkers. The 5090 is experiencing nearly the same framerate at the same settings (which makes sense because they are pretty similar cards minus the AI crap on the 5090)
The doesn’t seem like it’s because the game is “THAT” demanding (that’s not to say it isn’t demanding or looking absolutely amazing) but more to do with the two engines they are using. The newest Unreal is rendering the visual aspects and it’s piggybacked onto the old crusty oblivion engine. It’s definitely going to need some patching and more optimization before it’s running well on everything, even the top-tier cards.
There’s swaths of folks experiencing graphical issues while others are blasting it on ultra with a RTX 3080 at 1440p.. LOL! The sad part is it seems like they’re really leaning heavily into the DLSS / AI frame generation to carry it further (thanks nvidia 
) - so it’s hard to tell what the best options are currently
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I will not stand for this blasphemy on my own post 
I’ve finished it, I think, once(???) in all my dozens of playthroughs. Personally, I like some of the guild quests and other, random side quests more. Once Patrick Stewart King Uriel Septim VII dies, I’ve pretty much done everything I want to do with the main quest.
I’ll have to give that a shot next time. I didn’t even think to book it to the gate in Bravil and just start in the Isle of Madness
@cowmamba That’s a really weird way to say “You couldn’t wait, could you?” And again, I will not stand here, in my own post, and be put on full blast like that.
In fairness though, I was planning on waiting, but I was watching the stream (about a half hour after it was live) and towards the end, they had gameplay footage, and quite frankly, that cinched it for me. I knew there would be optimization issues (it’s still a BGS game, of course) but quite frankly, Oblivion is my favorite game and the footage looked anything BUT a labor of love. Ended up buying a new GPU (as part of an impulse upgrade that’s rolling out in the next few weeks).
THAT SAID… If you hate stutter and and playing below ultra and you can wait, I would. But personally, as long as it’s playable, I’ll play Oblivion
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Makes sense. That’s one reason that drew me to morrowind specifically, I think it has the best main quest out of the three. I don’t enjoy most side content’s stories
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Haha for sure! Totally didn’t mean it in any malicious way or to come off like I was flaming you or anyone else. I have done the exact same in the past for games too hah! When DOOM 3 came out I bought it day one and realized my card was way too anemic for it haha! I ended up getting the GeForce 6800 ultra OC a few days later because it had JUST came out a month earlier and it was the top of the line card at the time. Expensive as frig back then but totally worth it. So I totally get it! I remember like, two months after that Half Life 2 came out. It was a killer year that year for hardware and games.
It’s crazy to think a $650 GPU today is the basic entry level to the higher-end gpus now. Back then it was like owning a Ferrari in a PC build LOL! It’s just such a bummer the sate of where GPUs are currently at it’s so hard to justify buying the new 50 series from nVidia. The competition is starting to nip at their heels so hopefully that’ll kind of make them snap out of it, but only time will tell i suppose.
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No worries. I didn’t take it as such and don’t usually until/unless someone says otherwise. Thank you for sharing a look into a time in PC gaming that I was unable to afford at the time.
Personally, as a linux user, I’m mostly using AMD because nVidia is just yet another thing that needs to be configured and tweaked. Regardless, agreed, it’s pretty hard to justify a new GPU (Favorite games being remastered incredibly notwithstanding). Also agreed that more than half a thousand only gets you the most basic GPU and can still, likely, be more than half your built PC budget. Honestly shocked because I remember when custom PCs were nigh unaffordable… But, I suppose they are easier to build now than before… So, we got that going for us
However, I do actually enjoy some of the side quests. For Oblivion, if nothing else, Shadow over Hackdirt is a pretty nice homage to HP Lovecraft
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I’ll have to check that one out! Restart my character, didn’t do a good job with picking skills and the level scaling for the og😅
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I gave up a small chunk of my life completing Morrowind near 100%. Also spent a lot of time playing Oblivion, but never completed the main storyline. Did they include the expansions in the remake? I downloaded it last night and will start it soon.
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yes both expansions are included
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To clarify what @Oxillian said, all previous DLCs (including the infamous Horse Armor) is included in the base Remaster. There is more armor and weapons in the Deluxe package, including even more Horse Armor! NOTE: the deluxe does not add any expansions, but I understand that the new/deluxe armor/weapons are procured through quests.
The removed the necessity to minmax (efficient level). You are now able to allocate points to attributes rather than having to level specific skill to level specific attributes!
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Oh neat! How’s that work? I should pick up the new one sometime lol. Morrowind has me hooked for now
Instead of having to specifically target and train certain skills that target specific attributes within a single level in order to get that +5 for each attribute from the skill, when you level up, you are given an allotment of “attribute points” from which to allocate to attribute(s) you wish to level up.
Drove 1.5 hours to my brother’s apartment so we could stay up all night playing like the old days. He’s moving into a new place so it was just us in the floor with a giant TV. It was awesome.
I’m a wood elf this run. Never been a wood elf before. Just getting started on my own file. Been playing Elden Ring so the combat feels a little Bonk Bonk Bonk, but I’m having fun! Oblivion holds a special place in my heart.
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Heck yeah! That’s awesome. Nice to see more and more Linux users especially gaming on the platform too! I have been thinking of jumping ship and going team red for my next GPU upgrade. I am planning a new build this summer with the Ryzen 9800x3d or the 9950x3d haven’t decided which yet but also eyeing their GPUs too. I’m over nvidia’s crap. I was planning on going with the 7900xtx but was kind of hoping they were going to announce a successor when they dropped the 9070 series.
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Honestly, I had been thinking about switching for a while. It wasn’t until Steam’s Deck announcement that I actually switch (like day after. I had to save and backup everything from Windows before switching) full bore. Linux is much easier when you have no familiar OS to fallback to. Admittedly, I do miss when everything “‘just works™’” but I wouldn’t go back to Windows unless you paid me (like… a job or something).
Take from this what you will, but I had nothing but problems using nVidia. Switched to AMD GPUs and my only problem is that some boards might not allow you to control fans without jumping through hoops (and I only care to want to do this because hearing whirring fans is the least of my concern… Because I’m profoundly hearing impaired. Worst case, my pc last longer).
Fwiw, speaking strictly for gaming, on paper, I would get the 9800x3D due to it’s higher, base clock speed. Unless you’re also going to be doing heavy, intensive workloads that will take advantage of having both more cores AND multi threading (or you’re playing games that you know will use multi-cores), you’re not really going to be fully taking advantage of the 9950x3d and wasting money. (TL;DR 9800x3D for gaming (higher base clock) or 9950x3d for multi-threaded workload (more cores and multi-threading))
I just switched to the 7900xtx. I refuse to play the remaster to my favorite game on low because ONLY my GPU can’t cut it (despite all my other specs are up to snuff or far surpass max requirements). No problems so far, but due to how well Oblivion is optimized (it’s not) I still hit some point’s of lag and stutter. Haven’t played any other games since upgrading so can’t speak to those
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