Oblivion Remaster Performance?

[Omega83]

Hi guys. What is with the game performance? I am trying to play at native 2560*1440 resolution. Some areas are playable, others are really choppy and near unplayable. Here are my laptop specs:

- Nvidia RTX 5060 8GB VRAM
- 32GB DDR5 System RAM 5200 MT/s
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX @ 3.60 GHz
- 2x 4TB SSDs

Thoughts and help appreciated 🙂

 

[dxchase]

You have a 5060 8gb GPU, thats probably the reason.

 

[Lutfij]

You might want to keep this in mind;
8GB = 1080p
16GB(or anything above 8GB) = 1440p

- Nvidia RTX 5060 8GB VRAM
- 32GB DDR5 System RAM 5200 MT/s
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX @ 3.60 GHz
- 2x 4TB SSDs
Make, model and SKU to your laptop?

 

[Colif]

Make, model and SKU to your laptop?

Based on post history and CPU I would say its this one:

https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-pro-series/legion-pro-5-gen-10-16-inch-amd/len101g0041

He replaced both ssd inside with 2 x 4tb, which would make finding the model interesting 🙂

 

[neogunhero]

Hi guys. What is with the game performance? I am trying to play at native 2560*1440 resolution. Some areas are playable, others are really choppy and near unplayable. Here are my laptop specs:

- Nvidia RTX 5060 8GB VRAM
- 32GB DDR5 System RAM 5200 MT/s
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX @ 3.60 GHz
- 2x 4TB SSDs

Thoughts and help appreciated 🙂

Hey Omega, I play that game as well. Performance issues are amongst the most common player complaints about the game. However, the 8GB VRAM definitely is a bottleneck. Try reducing resolution or enabling DLSS 4.5 in the driver. This article from Overclock3D explains how you can do it. There are a few different models to choose from so you will have to mess around a bit to find one the produces the best visuals and performance for your tastes.

Some options to lower: set RT Lumen to Software - Low, reduce Global Illumination, Reflections, Shadows, Foliage/View Distance settings down a bit. You'll suffer visual loss but these are the settings that do the most damage to your FPS when set to Ultra, *especially* RT Lumen.

Hope this helps!

 

[Omega83]

Hi again guys. I was hoping to get better performance on my laptop with the 5060 as that seemed to be a better card than what my previous laptop had, which was an 3080 I think (I know it was in the 3000 series). Thing is, my previous laptop had 16GB VRAM, and my current one only has 8GB VRAM. Is VRAM really the reason I am not getting very good performance, even though the 5060 is a better graphics card (I think)? Further thoughts and help appreciated 🙂

 

[Colif]

even though the 5060 is a better graphics card (I think)?

i think you mistaken.

I can't find a direct comparison but this is the 3080 mobile compared to a 5060 (desktop GPU), it is really close... 4% difference

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile Specs

NVIDIA GA104, 1545 MHz, 6144 Cores, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 8192 MB GDDR6, 1750 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

But if I compared the 5060 mobile to the same card, the performance difference is much larger

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile Specs

NVIDIA GB206, 1455 MHz, 3328 Cores, 104 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 8192 MB GDDR7, 1500 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

So if anything, while the 5060 desktop is equal to your 3080, the laptop version isn't even close.

Sorry to have to tell you this now, and not when you were picking laptops. Your old card was capable of 1440p, whereas new one is really just a 1080p gpu.

And yes, 8gb VRAM is a major difference as well.

 

[Omega83]

Thank you for the information. What do you recommend i set resolution to for games in general? Also, if I lower resolution, would games still be full-screen? My native res is 2560*1400. Further help appreciated ☺️

 

[BeardyHat]

Should still be fullscreen. But pick a resolution in your aspect ratio, so it doesn't look stretched or blurry. Your aspect ratio is 16:9, so next step down is 1920x1080

 

[Omega83]

Hi again guys. Should I be playing all of my games at 1920*1080? I set Oblivion Remaster to that res, and it still runs choppy mostly. I even toggled VRAM display in-game to on and it said 0/0? I tried to set Starfield to that resolution as well, but it made game run in a window? Not sure how to proceed with all of this... Help appreciated 🙂

 

[Colif]

what settings are you running it at?

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.

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.

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overclock3d.net

you may need to play it in low settings

I even toggled VRAM display in-game to on and it said 0/0?

that seems busted. You can't have 0/0

I tried to set Starfield to that resolution as well, but it made game run in a window?

To force Starfield to run at a true 1080p full screen, adjust your Windows desktop resolution to 1080p before launching the game. Because the game does not feature an exclusive fullscreen mode or an in-game resolution slider, it dynamically scales to your Windows resolution

 

[BeardyHat]

Also, are you hitting Fn + Q and setting the laptop to performance mode? There's three levels, Quiet, Balanced and Performance. I see a significant increase in my FPS when switched over to Performance mode.

 

[Colif]

Good idea, I don't have a laptop so I don't know these tricks.
My PC always in perf mode, but then it doesn't run off a battery... unless UPS is powering it. And it wouldn't run long in a game in that state.