Bethesda has confirmed that a new patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is in development, and that it will carry over optimisations made for the recently released Nintendo Switch 2 version, IGN reports. It is the first commitment to an update the studio has made in more than a year.
We've heard your feedback asking for an additional patch for Oblivion Remastered. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game has a number of optimizations that we are looking into bringing to other platforms and we will share more when we are able.
The statement stops short of a date or a change list, but it addresses a gap that has become the loudest complaint about the remaster. Oblivion Remastered has not received a patch on PC since July 2025, having been updated only twice after release, and it still carries problems that were present at launch.
Digital Foundry documented those problems in a technical analysis in May 2025, reporting hitching while moving through the open world, frame-rate instability, and performance that degraded the longer a session ran — behaviour the outlet suggested could point to a memory leak. When Digital Foundry returned to the game a year later, in May 2026, it found many of the same issues unresolved.
That has shown up in the game's reception over time. Oblivion Remastered holds a 'mostly positive' Steam user review rating across all reviews but only a 'mixed' rating for recent ones, with one negative review reduced to a single word: "Abandonware." Reaction to Bethesda's statement on the Oblivion subreddit was warmer but wary, with one player writing that it was insane the studio had said nothing for over a year and adding that the patch had better be substantial.
The silence is harder to explain given how well the game has performed. Bethesda contracted Virtuos to rebuild the 2006 role-playing game in Unreal Engine 5, and the remaster has drawn more than nine million players. Bethesda development chief Todd Howard told IGN in December that the studio was, in his words, really pleased with how well it did.
Bethesda has not said which platforms the patch will cover beyond indicating that the Switch 2 optimisations are the starting point, nor when it will detail the contents.
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