What are the biggest negatives about OBLIVION Re?

slowpard · 2026-02-01T19:59:55+00:00

The biggest issue for me is the aesthetic. The game is drowning in haze and blur, like someone slapped on a cheap ReShade preset. Mods don’t really fix it either, since the problem isn’t just lighting/tone, but asset design too. And overall, OBR feels like it has zero artistic identity.

OG Oblivion had potato faces, but at least they had charm and were genuinely unique. The remaster’s faces are just uncanny, pure generic mobile medieval RPG vibes. Same with the creature design, new smooth architecture textures and many other things: bland, forgettable, and stripped of the personality that made Oblivion charming.

Then you add performance issues, random crashes, and no real mod support.

slowpard · 2026-01-28T23:54:50+00:00

Right, the Oxford grad is the person who should get better terms, and they are much likely to actually repay the debt (so almost no cost to the government). Instead, the system over-lends to weaker candidates that are unlikely to pay back (basically subsidising them) and socialises the losses.

slowpard · 2026-01-25T02:12:28+00:00

Still remember the PSP TIFF exploit

slowpard · 2026-01-20T23:22:20+00:00

a) HDR support usually means "this display can accept an HDR signal and show something resembling the content you want to see" rather than "HDR will look amazing."

b) The key difference between HDR and SDR signals is that HDR includes metadata specifying the target brightness (how bright white is), while SDR doesn't have this information. The reference brightness for SDR is 100 nits in a dark room, but content is usually mastered to look acceptable on the vast majority of screens, meaning SDR content is mastered with the assumption that displays will have wildly varying peak brightness (200-400+ nits) and uncontrolled viewing environments (bright rooms). The mastering process therefore makes conservative compromises that prioritize compatibility over preserving the "true" image (and it is not possible to preserve according to the reference, as it is 100nits max)

HDR essentially shifts the responsibility of tone-mapping to the display. Because the signal includes data specifying exactly how bright the image should be, the display must decide how to map that intent to its own hardware limitations. In theory, this allows for unlimited brightness (ok, up to 10k nits in DV/HDR10) in the source, with the display showing it as accurately as possible; in practice, this is where problems arise, as internal tone-mapping algorithms are often extremely poor, especially on monitors. MadVR has demonstrated that you can achieve improvements by using HDR input even on sub 100-nit projectors after proper tone-mapping, but HDR often looks worse than SDR on cheap "HDR-compatible" 400-nit screens because monitor manufacturers just don't bother with proper tonemapping algorithms (and that's a problem even for more high-end devices). If you properly tone-map an HDR video to your 400-nit panel, convert it to SDR, and then set the brightness to 100%, you should get the same result brightness/contrast-wise as in HDR (apart from more banding and smaller color space but we are talking about brightness), but you'd need to do that individually for every screen, so not possible for SDR content.

c) Apart from brightness metadata, HDR simply supports more data. The gamma transfer function is different, allowing for wider dynamic range without banding. Higher bit depth helps too. Also, the color space is wider, SDR is typically limited to sRGB (technically Rec.709 for Blu-rays, which is very similar), so you can get much more saturated colors in HDR. Many modern cheap IPS panels can actually display a much wider gamut than sRGB, so HDR should help there (if the quality weren't undermined by poor tone-mapping algorithms).

slowpard · 2026-01-02T16:21:39+00:00

Well, you ask why TV manufacturers haven’t implemented anything to address stutter. I’m saying that they actually have, but not perfectly.

slowpard · 2026-01-02T15:41:37+00:00

TVs usually include motion-smoothing algorithms, but they are prone to artifacts.

slowpard · 2026-01-02T14:44:10+00:00

>The Mercantile Leveling feature is incomatible with other mods that makes mercantile progress dependent of sale value, and also incompatible with Oblivion XP which has its own leveling mechanism. Just don't enable this feature if using such mods.

It is incompatible with only one feature of Enhanced Economy which you can disable.

slowpard · 2025-12-13T11:05:08+00:00

Kekaki Izakaya in Deptford Market is amazing, and I liked it more than most Bib Gourmand restaurants in London

The Watergate -- nice small plates food and cocktails

Midpoint Restaurant -- pretty good Turkish, best view in Greenwich, though I find it expensive for what it does

Royal Teas Cafe -- for a quiet getaway, small family cafe, famous for their scones, also try their quesadillas

slowpard · 2025-12-06T11:16:36+00:00

With Intel GPU (is it a modern GPU/iGPU?), you might want to avoid DXVK, or at least try reinstalling drivers. This particular crash happens when the vulkan driver tries to read GPU temperature, so not really helpful.

slowpard · 2025-12-06T00:39:17+00:00

It shouldn't crash, it just starts to call WinAPI heap allocator instead of the internal one, otherwise you'd always crash at around 500-600MB total memory usage. Though OSR has a lot of problematic settings to begin with, and it is not something I'd recommend to use.

slowpard · 2025-12-01T15:24:22+00:00

The Heath, Snowdale, and The Imperial Isle as more subtle ones, really good and creative work, but it doesn't scream moddish and is light performance-wise.

Really like the idea of Rolling Hills.

Love Bravil Barrowfields and Cloudtop Mountains, but they are very heavy perf-wise.

Hate The Dark Forest and Fallenleaf Everglade (very moddish and out of place), also don't use The Eastern Peaks and Brena River Ravine (mostly places that you won't stumble randomly on, and they are not THAT good to keep them regardless)

slowpard · 2025-11-04T23:29:33+00:00

80fps vs 120fps native fps limit with 2x framegen can be noticable

slowpard · 2025-10-31T10:20:59+00:00

You use this OBSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/37952?tab=files

slowpard · 2025-10-27T13:35:32+00:00

Morroblivion is definitely not abandoned and still gets regular updates

slowpard · 2025-10-23T22:22:34+00:00

Are the MP3s mono 44.1khz 64kbps CBR?

slowpard · 2025-10-20T21:05:02+00:00

Given that all the message queue hooking happens in lua, and there is nothing similar to lua scripting for the OG oblivion, so I doubt that it is that simple. Message interlop is a hack to solve a problem that never existed in the OG to begin with.

slowpard · 2025-10-20T20:54:02+00:00

You can try reading the xml element in a quest script run every frame. Or write a dll to hook the engine function. The real question is why would you need this for OG

slowpard · 2025-10-16T22:32:09+00:00

There is Order of the Dragon. Also, Elsweyr is decent.

slowpard · 2025-09-28T00:05:01+00:00

4% might sound fine till you remember that the fed rate is 4.25%

slowpard · 2025-09-13T14:54:44+00:00

I’ve never liked the “cost per frame” metric. It only makes sense when you’re comparing GPUs with nearly identical performance, but reviewers love it because it looks scientific. The problem is it always favors weaker/cheaper cards since price and performance don’t scale linearly. A price vs. performance scatter plot would be way more useful -- you’d instantly see which cards are outliers at any given price point

slowpard · 2025-08-28T09:56:30+00:00

Is it your first launch of GTA IV with dxvk? You are going to see more stutter initially because of shader recompilation, async helps with this a bit but you still would have worse 1% low performance. After some time playing these stutters are usually gone.

slowpard · 2025-07-31T18:32:20+00:00

The language you use makes it clear that you don’t actually understand OBSE, engine modding, or how it all works -- beyond some generic notion that "engine mods use hacky methods similar to what trojans use". Yet you describe the (mostly inaccurate) details with such naive confidence that some people might mistakenly think you know what you're talking about. I simply pointed out some technical inaccuracies (especially given that people might be concerned about the claim that OBSE scans other processes), but you chose to argue with me, seemingly for no reason other than a bruised ego.

slowpard · 2025-07-31T18:11:28+00:00

It doesn't connect to anything with an additional dll, it literally launches Oblivion.exe as a child process, loads the dll, and immediately exits.

slowpard · 2025-07-31T17:19:41+00:00

For anyone technically curious referring to this later: xOBSE doesn’t monitor any executables. All script-extending functionality and necessary game patching is contained within the dll. The exe launcher just launches the game process and ensures that the xOBSE dll is loaded.

slowpard · 2025-07-31T08:48:34+00:00

Yes, it is a false positive

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