Best Settings for RTX 5080 in Oblivion Remastered

Get the best graphics and framerates in Oblivion Remastered with these settings on your RTX 5080 at 1440p or 4K.

The RTX 5080 is 2025’s enthusiast-grade graphics card, priced above $2000 in real-world terms. The performance it offers is comparable to that of the RTX 4090, albeit with extensive tuning applied.

Sadly, in Oblivion Remastered, even with tuning, gamers are unable to run the game at maximum settings. Unfortunately, GPU pricing doesn’t correlate with real-world performance; gamers looking to plug and play this game will not be able to do so with the expectation that it will run at maximum settings.

Oblivion Remastered looks spectacular but comes with the gripes Unreal Engine 5 has to offer, including micro-stuttering, reflection issues, shimmering, ghosting (FSR) artifacts, and whatnot. The settings below will help you get a decent gaming experience with your RTX 5080 while playing the new remaster.

Note: The GPU performance in this case is enthusiast-level. Anything below a Core i9-13900K or Ryzen 7 7800X3D will result in a CPU bottleneck. DLSS 3.7 comes as the default, and DLSS 4 is strongly recommended for use here. Use DLSS Swapper to utilize the transformer model. The game implements ray tracing from the ground up, and you cannot disable it.

Best Settings for RTX 5080 in Oblivion Remastered (1440p and 4K Optimized)

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

A few keynotes to consider:

At 4K, go with DLSS quality to render the game at 1440p internally. Because the RTX 5080 can handle 1440p natively, this guide includes both native 1440p and 4K DLSS settings.
Use the DLSS 4 Transformer model, which helps resolve UE5 issues, such as noise, blurring, smearing, artifacts, ghosting, and temporal instability.
Use the recommended shadow and foliage settings here, as these settings severely impact your framerates.
In certain areas, expect very high CPU usage. If you do not have adequate CPU cooling, you may damage your hardware.
Enable framegen and reflex; this will help smooth out micro-stutters and other frame-pacing issues. Blackwell’s flip metering implementation of frame generation performs much better than Ada Lovelace’s.
Track frame pacing, 1% and .1% lows with either the Nvidia app (if using frame gen) or afterburner (if strictly relying on native or DLSS), and tweak these settings accordingly.

Best Settings Explored

Setting	RTX 5080 at 4K	RTX 5080 at 1440p
Resolution	3840×2160 (4K)	2560×1440 (1440p)
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 // personal preference	75 // personal preference
FOV 3rd-Person	75 // personal preference	75 // personal preference
Quality Level	Custom	Custom
View Distance Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Effects Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Foliage Quality	Medium	Medium
Shadow Quality	Medium	Medium
Global Illumination Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Texture Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Reflection Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Post-Processing Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Hair Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Cloth Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Screen Space Reflections	On	On
Lumen Hardware RT	On	On
Lumen Hardware RT Lighting Mode	High	High
Lumen Software RT Quality	N/A	N/A
Anti-Aliasing	N/A	DLAA
Upscaling Technique	DLSS	Native DLAA
DLSS Mode	Quality	Optional to enable
DLSS Sharpness	3	N/A on native, 5 (DLSS Quality)
DLSS Frame Generation	Off, Automatic, or Enabled, either would do	Off, Automatic, or Enabled, either would do
NVIDIA Reflex	Enabled only if FG is turned on	Enabled only if FG is turned on

Despite the 16GB VRAM and a real-world asking price of around $2,000, the 5080 is still a powerful GPU, but it is priced unfairly. With these settings, you will be able to enjoy Oblivion Remastered, whether you are doing dungeons or exploring the massive open world, hitches and stutters will bother you a lot less than using the default max settings.

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