Digital Foundry Say The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered’s Breaks the Longer You Play and Eventually Crashes When Loading a Save, Call for Emergency Patch.

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  1. Least-Path-2890

    Vintage Bethesda, Knowing Todd, he won’t patch it as punishment for gamers trashing Starfield.

  2. Lyra_the_Star_Jockey

    They also said Cyberpunk ran great at launch.

  3. Nowaczek

    This is exactly how the remasters should be made. 100% faithful to the source material. šŸ˜‰

  4. Diet_Coke

    I have definitely noticed some weird bugs popping up. I was trying to add an enchantment and it wouldn’t register the button press to select a skill to fortify. The solution was to do it again with an unsheathed weapon. However, now I’m getting a similar issue where sometimes I can’t loot things unless I have an unsheathed weapon, or I have to spam the button for it to register. Never happened prior to the enchantment thing.

    Bugs are expected but given they’re charging $50 for the remaster I hope they patch them.

  5. SSXAnubis

    Faithful remaster. Just as bad as the first release!

  6. HollowDanO

    Why the apostrophe and s? Completely unnecessary.

  7. AuryxTheDutchman

    I actually stopped playing Oblivion because of that exact issue. Ended up being a good thing though because I started Expedition 33 instead.

  8. Gooseloff

    Makes sense. I don’t have a ton of hours in it yet but I have a decent number, and have only just started to see small, amusing bugs here and there; and then everything I read says on a technical level game runs like dog shit lol guess I just haven’t gotten there yet.

  9. TheBaneEffect

    How long is too long? I have a lot of play hours already. No change in experience.

  10. FunctionalFun

    I’ve had crashes when creating potions with stolen ingredients, crashes when fast travelling. I’m not even that late in.

  11. supermitsuba

    Sounds like a bug from every Bethesda game

  12. Cloud_N0ne

    How long are we talking? I’m 80+ hours in with no issues

  13. EfficiencyOk9060

    I got in, finished the campaign, the one thing in didn’t do in the original and sat the game down. I’ll revisit it a year from now when it’s patched and has more mature mods.

  14. Kitakitakita

    have there been any patches beyond the hotfix that removed graphic settings? Do we still have the Light bug where it only activates in third person?

  15. Iggy_Slayer

    This is par for the course with every gamebryo game (or creation, or whatever BS name they call gamebryo these days). They all do this.

  16. joestaff

    So far my favorite bugs are duplicating by literally using a storage container slightly differently and gaining picklock experience by clicking on an already secured tumbler.

    Fucking classic stuff.

  17. garulousmonkey

    Didn’t that happen on the original release?

  18. Victom123

    i guess bethesda is fighting game leaks with memory leaks, interesting strategy

  19. Starksrein

    I’m currently facing this issue after 15 hours of playing this game

  20. MajorDX25

    So, it’s a Bethesda game. Got it!

  21. od1nsrav3n

    Really fucking annoying.

    I get weirdly intermittent fatal error crashes when fast travelling or walking through a door – could be after 4 mins or 4 hours.

    Really puts me off playing.

  22. Darkone539

    Skyrim on the ps3. This appears to be normal for elder scrolls.

  23. insanitysqwid

    Sooo kinda like a return of the PS3 “save-bloat” bug that affected Fallout: New Vegas and Skyrim since it’s Always Bethesda Jank??

    But also, are we kidding ourselves? Remastered here doesn’t have as many items with physicals in comparison to the original release (the currency weights DON’T WORK in O:Re!) — yet the older consoles worked with what they had šŸ™ Props to any game devs working within their limits

  24. Tarc_Axiiom

    If this is the same save compression bug that’s existed in every Elder Scrolls game for the past 30 years, then I guarantee it’ll be fixed in days.

    A very much “How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?” scenario.

  25. DarkflowNZ

    Well yeah it uses the original engine, right? It’s only got a new graphics layer over top. That said, this happened to me and I was able to load a save an hour or two back and it’s been fine for like 10 hours since. Luckily I knew from experience with the original version to keep a rotating roster of like 10 saves. That said, don’t keep too many saves either as that can cause issues if I recall

  26. Maximum-Hood426

    And all the Bethesda shills defending broken games in this day and age. Fucking hell.

  27. So the game has one or more memory leaks that need to be fixed. Honestly it feels like almost every large game that comes out now has some kind of memory leak.

    It’s the entire reason why I over-spected my PC to 64GBs to help prevent crashes (for the system overall, not just games crashing) I remember when 76 came out (Yes I know haha another Bethesda game) and the game alone had over 30GBs of memory used up at one point.

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