Best Settings for RTX 5090 in Oblivion Remastered

Use these settings with your RTX 5090 to enjoy a buttery-smooth gameplay experience in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

The RTX 5090 is the fastest desktop GPU currently available. It’s the replacement for the previous generation’s Ada Lovelace flagship RTX 4090. The performance figures for 5090 are commendable. It provides around 30% faster RT and Raster performance than the 4090, but still isn’t enough to fully max out Oblivion Remastered at 4K.

Gamers paying more than $5,000 cannot run the game at maxed-out settings at 4K, which happens to be the card’s marketed resolution. UE 5 is highly intensive and requires a lot of user tweaking to meet and maintain the 60 FPS mark. The settings below provide a 60+ FPS 4K experience and explore other resolutions such as 1440p.

Note: The power draw figures for the RTX 5090 exceed 550W alone at native 4K. You will need at least a 1000W PSU and a ventilated airflow within your PC case. Consider undervolting the RTX 5090 at 800 mV @ 2.5 GHz for a minimal performance hit. This will drop power consumption by an average of 150W. At 1440p, when undervolted, expect the power draw to be around the 320W-ish range. Gamers can experience similar power figures with 4K with Quality DLSS. Lastly, use the DLSS Swapper to enable DLSS 4 for a higher frame rate and improved image quality than the CNN model, which the game offers as its default.

Best Settings for RTX 5090 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:

If you are unhappy with the framerates, lower the shadow settings to medium. The 5090 can handle high settings, but if you really want a high-FPS experience, medium settings ease the load drastically.
Use DLSS 4 and FrameGen together; you can toggle between automatic and enabled parameters within the settings to see what suits you best.
With DLSS quality at 4K and native 1440p with DLAA, you will be CPU-bound if you are using a CPU that is not a 9800X3D, a 9950X3D, or a heavily tuned Core i9 14900KS with low-latency DDR5 8000 MHz kits.
As mentioned, if the power draw bothers you, you can undervolt your GPU. However, a power supply below 1000W or even 850W can cause your system to abnormally shut down, freeze, or damage itself beyond repair.

Best Settings Explored

Setting	RTX 5090 at 4K	RTX 5090 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 // User preference	75 // User preference
FOV 3rd-Person	75 // User preference	75 // User preference
Quality Level	Custom	Custom
View Distance Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Effects Quality	Ultra	Ultra
Foliage Quality	Medium // can be reduced	Medium // can be reduced
Shadow Quality	High // can be reduced	High // can be reduced
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	Unavailable on hardware RT	Unavailable on hardware RT
Anti-Aliasing	Unavailable with DLSS	DLAA
Upscaling Technique	DLSS	Native DLAA
DLSS Mode	Quality	Optional
DLSS Sharpness	3	N/A on Native, use 5 if using DLSS
DLSS Frame Generation	Optional	Optional
NVIDIA Reflex	Optional	Optional

That wraps up the RTX 5090’s recommendations. Believing that halo products, such as the RTX 5090, fail to keep up with games in 2025 reflects the sorry state of game optimization we currently offer.

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