Bethesda just dropped some exciting news. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is official, and it’s coming out today (April 22nd). The game has already been listed on Steam, giving PC gamers a look at the system requirements before they go ahead and buy it. Priced at $50, the remaster is more than a “tremendous visual update” as it also makes some changes to the gameplay, while retaining the original’s charm.

With improved visuals comes new system requirements. When it was announced that the remaster would be running on Unreal Engine 5, we were a little bit worried about how well it would perform. UE5 has been a go-to game engine for many AAA developers, but it often demands a lot from your hardware. However, Oblivion doesn’t seem too bad.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered system requirements

As an UE5 game, the Oblivion remaster is understandably a little more GPU-intensive in comparison to CPU. For example, we can see that you can enjoy it without a problem with an older Ryzen 5 or i5 processor, while the GPU and RAM requirements are a little heftier. Even still, the best Nvidia graphics card listed is the RTX 2080, a card that is three generations old now.

While these specs are a far cry from the 2 GHz Pentium 4 processor and less than 5 GB of disk space required for the original game, it’s to be expected. While we get to learn more about the game’s performance as gamers get their hands on the remaster, we’ll be able to see how it really performs across a wider range of hardware. Right now, the requirements don’t detail what exactly this hardware is targeting, as far as resolution and framerate.

The fact that you can run it on a GTX graphics card at least tells us that ray tracing is not a requirement, unlike some recent games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle or the upcoming Doom: The Dark Ages. The remaster was built as a collaboration between Bethesda and Virtuous and looks to be a faithful remaster for fans of the franchise.

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