{"id":809216,"date":"2026-10-21T02:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:10:16","slug":"fan-uses-ai-to-fix-oblivion-remastered-pc-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809216\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Uses AI to Fix Oblivion Remastered PC Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was excellent when it came out, bringing the beloved RPG to the modern era, but just like many other games running on Unreal 5, it was a technical mess. However, a fan has used Claude to create a performance mod that improves the game&#8217;s performance. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">When The <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered<\/a> came out back in April 2025, it was absolutely plagued with performance issues \u2013 something that&#8217;s unfortunately become pretty normal these days. But, more than a year after launch, the performance issues are still there, with patch 1.2, the most recent on Steam, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/2623190?updates=true\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">coming out all the way back in June 2025.<\/a> And even after that patch, there were still significant <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/tech-experts-say-the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-still-suffers-from-issues-that-plagued-it-at-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performance problems.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">It&#8217;s little wonder, then, that the community would try to take matters into their own hands. Reddit user LTSharp posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/1x8jpd5\/used_claude_to_fix_oblivion_remastered_performance\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ChatGPT subreddit<\/a>, with a video showing the unpatched game running side-by-side with their patched version. And, while the raw increase to the frame rate isn&#8217;t huge, LTSharp&#8217;s patch greatly reduces the stutter, going from 66 hitches in the unpatched clip to just 11 in the patched version of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Screenshots<img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2277167929 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In their post, LTSharp says one of the reasons for the rocky frametimes was that &#8220;the game was reconstructing the whole lighting of a scene in each frame even when nothing was changing, which was obviously a huge strain on CPU that had to parse all this work on a single thread.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">They then ran Claude Opus 5.5 alongside Oblivion Remastered and tasked it with identifying the problems, and after two weeks, ended up with a patch. Crucially, this mod wasn&#8217;t created by just entering a quick prompt into Claude, hitting enter, and then calling it a day. LTSharp describes the process as &#8220;two weeks of intense work&#8221; with a lot of trial and error involved. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">It seems like the biggest source of the improved performance is spreading the work to more CPU cores. At any given moment in LTSharp&#8217;s video, CPU utilization jumps from 35-40% to 50-60% utilization, with around two extra threads (workers) engaged. And given that these samples were recorded on a rig with a 5800X, there&#8217;s probably some more room for improvement there.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">AI usage is one of the biggest controversies in gaming right now, but this seems to be a decent use of the technology. This was just a person who was disappointed that after &#8220;upgrading from 2070 Super to 9070 XT, the game continued to run poorly, with low fps and stuttering,&#8221; and decided to use Claude to fix the problem, despite not having any background in software development. Luckily, they&#8217;ve posted their work on GitHub, and if someone who&#8217;s relatively inexperienced was able to reduce stutters by this much, I imagine there may be developers who can create forks of this project that might be able to eliminate them altogether. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">This project is in contrast to some of the most egregious uses of the technology recently, like Epic, which recently <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/epic-reportedly-pushing-devs-to-use-ai-delays-secret-star-wars-and-marvel-crossover-shooter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delayed a Star Wars shooter to implement an AI-first policy<\/a> where &#8216;no hand-written code&#8217; is allowed. Likewise, an <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/xbox-business-strategist-claims-video-game-industry-is-pretending-to-not-use-ai-deletes-twitter-account-after-deluge-of-replies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Business Analyst recently went on Twitter<\/a> and ranted about how the game industry is &#8216;pretending&#8217; to not use AI, and even made bold claims like, &#8220;If you&#8217;re a game developer refusing to believe that AI has a place in your future, you should not be in the business of being a business.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Jacqueline Thomas Avatar\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image profile-thumb-img jsx-249361588 jsx-2338608387 expand\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792548616_207_RD5zbE5b_400x400-1679594933868.jpg\"  data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Jackie Thomas is the Senior Tech Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. She&#8217;s been covering gaming hardware for more than a decade for IGN, TechRadar, Gizmodo, PC Gamer and more. You can follow her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackiecobra\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@Jackiecobra<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was excellent when it came out, bringing the beloved RPG to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}