I'm almost at full system requirements, why can I only play on Low?

[neogunhero]

Playing on Game Pass, I know they have had some different issues than the Steam version. Still, I meet/exceed all recommended system specs besides GPU, I have a RTX 2060 6GB when it recommends a RTX 2080 8GB. It's more powerful, but I should still be able to play at medium 60fps at least, instead I'm forced to play Low at 20fps. WTF is the issue here Bethesda?

[ebolaconundrum]

Well you have to play on low because as you've said yourself you rig is below minimum spec and GPU is generally an important one for most games.

[Fluffy_Llama]

6gb GPU is kinda oof with how bloated games are these days, my 4090 when playing this is usually using 11 to 12gb of vram (i have the graphics on high, not ultra)

[★REM★]

Originally posted by neogunhero:

Playing on Game Pass, I know they have had some different issues than the Steam version. Still, I meet/exceed all recommended system specs besides GPU, I have a RTX 2060 6GB when it recommends a RTX 2080 8GB. It's more powerful, but I should still be able to play at medium 60fps at least, instead I'm forced to play Low at 20fps. WTF is the issue here Bethesda?

Is your pc using the dedicated GPU or the integrated one? make sure it use the dedicated.

[ebolaconundrum]

If your below spec for a game why would you expect you could play it on more than Low settings?

[Swaggaccino]

UE5 is a notoriously unoptimized engine. There were dudes with 5090s running Kvatch at 1440p/66fps native lol.

[Resident Asswhole]

Turning down the in game resolution will help. I was playing on Medium at 1900x1080 and just turning the res down one setting made it load faster and play at a standard of 60 fps in the open world while running on a Nvidia 1080 card. Decreasing the resolution helped my performance more then changing the settings to low.

[Tom316]

A RTX 2060 is nowhere near a RTX 2080. A 2060 is about on par with a 1080. You also do not mention if this is a laptop aka the 2060 mobile version or not. If its the mobile version that is even worse.

The 2060 came out at the start of 2019. Its a old card by today's standards. Its just a old card without much vram to boot.

[LawrenceOfUrLabia]

Originally posted by neogunhero:

Playing on Game Pass, I know they have had some different issues than the Steam version. Still, I meet/exceed all recommended system specs besides GPU, I have a RTX 2060 6GB when it recommends a RTX 2080 8GB. It's more powerful, but I should still be able to play at medium 60fps at least, instead I'm forced to play Low at 20fps. WTF is the issue here Bethesda?

Why do you feel entitled to run the game below the minimum requirements set by the people who created it?

I'd go out and get a job with the time I was wasting playing this gem at 20 FPS until I earned enough for an upgrade.

But that's just me.

[neogunhero]

Originally posted by ebolaconundrum:

Well you have to play on low because as you've said yourself you rig is below minimum spec and GPU is generally an important one for most games.

Originally posted by ebolaconundrum:

If your below spec for a game why would you expect you could play it on more than Low settings?

Originally posted by LawrenceOfUrLabia:

Originally posted by neogunhero:

Playing on Game Pass, I know they have had some different issues than the Steam version. Still, I meet/exceed all recommended system specs besides GPU, I have a RTX 2060 6GB when it recommends a RTX 2080 8GB. It's more powerful, but I should still be able to play at medium 60fps at least, instead I'm forced to play Low at 20fps. WTF is the issue here Bethesda?

Why do you feel entitled to run the game below the minimum requirements set by the people who created it?

I'd go out and get a job with the time I was wasting playing this gem at 20 FPS until I earned enough for an upgrade.

But that's just me.

Shame on me for thinking Steam discussion forums is a place where people with actual knowledge of PC gaming hardware posted.

Just because you do not meet recommended requirements does not mean you cannot run a game. It doesn't mean "you must meet this or else the game won't run". Recommend specs are typically referring to running the game at High settings 30-60FPS, some games will note specifically what they mean by "recommended specs". This is why there is also a Minimum Specs, in case you have never seen one of those before. If you are above Minimum and below Recommend, somewhere in-between, you can still run the game at lower settings. Also, I clearly mentioned I meet/exceed all specs besides GPU. I have a Ryzen 5700X, 32GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM, M2 SSD that reaches 4000MB/s. When you meet everything besides GPU, usually you are able to play the game around Medium settings, if not then Low higher than 20FPS.

Originally posted by Fluffy_Llama:

6gb GPU is kinda oof with how bloated games are these days, my 4090 when playing this is usually using 11 to 12gb of vram (i have the graphics on high, not ultra)

6GB is definitely low, but my VRAM usage does not exceed 5400MB on Medium settings. So it is not a VRAM issue on lower settings, if it was then the game would crash.

Originally posted by ★REM★:

Is your pc using the dedicated GPU or the integrated one? make sure it use the dedicated.

Dedicated Zotac RTX 2060 6GB AMP Edition.

Originally posted by Swaggaccino:

UE5 is a notoriously unoptimized engine. There were dudes with 5090s running Kvatch at 1440p/66fps native lol.

I really think this is the main issue. UE5 games give me the worst issues on my rig. I'm usually able to play newer games just on lower settings, but Oblivion would jump anywhere between 10fps to 40fps on Low with DLSS Balanced.

[Swaggaccino]

Originally posted by neogunhero:

I really think this is the main issue. UE5 games give me the worst issues on my rig. I'm usually able to play newer games just on lower settings, but Oblivion would jump anywhere between 10fps to 40fps on Low with DLSS Balanced.

100% is UE5 as well as the devs that use them. I haven't played a single UE5 that didn't stutter and smear like crap and had to use upscalers and frame gen to work well and I have a 7900XT.

[Mortal_Kasi]

Also see if that helps!
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/79

Many people get seem to get some more FPS out of the Game with it, super easy to install and does not break Achievments if they are important for you.

[Ichi-niiPL]

The game runs like ass, and that's it really. I've 45fps in 1440p max settings and 60fps if i drop lumen to "software low" - that's with RTX4080 btw.
And that's on pure avg fps, don't get me started on 1% lows which are terrible due to stuttering... Also on top of that, there's the fact that any use of upscaling makes the thin grass stalks, look shimmery and simply bad, also the draw distance is not as good as it should be, and on top of all that there's also traversal stutter. Quite frankly i've not seen such a bad performing game in a long time, even other titles on UE5 that i've played, perform way better than this, like Wukong or Lords of The Fallen.

Honestly it doesn't matter what kind of rig you've it's going to run like ass, even with 5090 and 9800x3d. 5090 in 4k/ultra is going down to 40fps - that's 2000$ GPU, game is unoptimized mess and that's it really - knowing Bethesda it's going to stay that way.

[Sgt. Flaw]

It isn't "full" system requirements lol...it's "recommended"..your GPU isn't recommended to play this game..it'll run it...but it isn't recommended

I bet your CPU is a slouch too no way your running anything 3xxx or above with that card

[Sgt. Flaw]

Originally posted by Ichi-niiPL:

The game runs like ass, and that's it really. I've 45fps in 1440p max settings and 60fps if i drop lumen to "software low" - that's with RTX4080 btw.
And that's on pure avg fps, don't get me started on 1% lows which are terrible due to stuttering... Also on top of that, there's the fact that any use of upscaling makes the thin grass stalks, look shimmery and simply bad, also the draw distance is not as good as it should be, and on top of all that there's also traversal stutter. Quite frankly i've not seen such a bad performing game in a long time, even other titles on UE5 that i've played, perform way better than this, like Wukong or Lords of The Fallen.

Honestly it doesn't matter what kind of rig you've it's going to run like ass, even with 5090 and 9800x3d. 5090 in 4k/ultra is going down to 40fps - that's 2000$ GPU, game is unoptimized mess and that's it really - knowing Bethesda it's going to stay that way.

I'm sure OP would be happy to play on your rig....

[Ichi-niiPL]

Originally posted by Sgt. Flaw:

I'm sure OP would be happy to play on your rig....

My point was not to flex, but to show that performance is bad on pretty much any system, game is very unoptimized and runs badly, it's as simple as that.