Best Settings for RTX 3070 in Oblivion Remastered

Running Oblivion Remastered on an RTX 3070? Use these settings for best performance and image quality at 1080p and 1440p.

The RTX 3070 from the Ampere era offered significant mid-range horsepower. It provided excellent mid-range performance within the $500 price point at the time. Running the titles at max settings at 1440p was no problem at all for the 3070. But it’s 2025, and games released today are next-gen, and they tend to favor the new hardware significantly more than old-gen hardware.

Although both old-gen and new-gen cards, when written on paper, have almost identical feature sets, the optimization part leaves more room. For Oblivion Remastered, which evokes a lot of nostalgia from 2006, the game’s performance requires significant tweaking with the RTX 3070.

Sadly, gamers can no longer target 1440p with the 3070 due to its limited VRAM buffer. Refer to the settings below to get a good balance between performance and visuals when running the game with your 3070. An experimental 1440p setting is also mentioned for those wishing to run it.

Note: The 3070 still represents an incredibly capable GPU; its only limitation is its VRAM. However, you will be CPU-bound in Oblivion Remastered if you pair the 3070 with anything below a Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i5 10600K.

Best Settings for RTX 3070 in Oblivion Remastered (1080p and 1440p Optimized)

Oblivion Settings Page — Settings page from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (Image via Bethesda)

A few keynotes to consider:

The DLSS 4 upscaler is recommended. If it’s not available, use the DLSS Swapper or the Nvidia app to enable it.
For 1440p resolution, the balanced (DLSS) profile is used, which ensures minimal performance impact and consistent framerates.
Very few settings are lowered in 1440p to justify the 8GB VRAM pool.
If you are experiencing traversal stutters at unbearable levels in 1440p, try lowering the resolution to 1080p and restarting the game. Your GPU is likely running out of video memory (VRAM).
Continue to monitor your FPS, 1%, and 0.1% lows, and make further adjustments as needed.

Best Settings Explored

Setting	RTX 3070 (1080p)	RTX 3070 (1440p)
Resolution	1920 x 1080	2560 x 1440
Display Mode	Fullscreen	Fullscreen
Resolution Scale	100	100
Frame Rate Limit	Uncapped	Uncapped
V-Sync	Off	Off
Motion Blur	Off	Off
FOV 1st-Person	75 // preference	75 // preference
FOV 3rd-Person	75 // preference	75 // preference
Quality Level	Custom	Custom
View Distance Quality	Medium	Medium
Effects Quality	High	Medium
Foliage Quality	Low	Low
Shadow Quality	Low	Low
Global Illumination Quality	High	Medium
Texture Quality	Medium	Low
Reflection Quality	High	Medium
Post-Processing Quality	High	Medium
Hair Quality	Medium	Medium
Cloth Quality	Medium	Medium
Screen Space Reflections	Off	Off
Lumen Hardware RT	On	On
Lumen Hardware RT Lighting Mode	Low	Low
Lumen Software RT Quality	Use this if you need more FPS	Use this if you need more FPS
Anti-Aliasing	DLSS takes care of it	DLSS takes care of it
Upscaling Technique	DLSS	DLSS
DLSS Mode	Quality	Balanced
DLSS Sharpness	13	10
DLSS Frame Generation	N/A, use Lossless Scaling but not FSR FG	N/A, use Lossless Scaling but not FSR FG
NVIDIA Reflex	Enabled	Enabled

The 3070 sits between the 5060 Ti and the 4060 Ti but lacks sufficient VRAM to justify its potential full power. The core within is still capable and can easily tackle high settings if only it had enough VRAM allotted to it. Nevertheless, you can further customize these settings to your desired frame rate.

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