Fan Uses AI to Fix Oblivion Remastered PC Performance

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was excellent when it came out, bringing the beloved RPG to the modern era, but just like many other games running on Unreal 5, it was a technical mess. However, a fan has used Claude to create a performance mod that improves the game's performance.

When The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered came out back in April 2025, it was absolutely plagued with performance issues – something that's unfortunately become pretty normal these days. But, more than a year after launch, the performance issues are still there, with patch 1.2, the most recent on Steam, coming out all the way back in June 2025. And even after that patch, there were still significant performance problems.

It's little wonder, then, that the community would try to take matters into their own hands. Reddit user LTSharp posted on the ChatGPT subreddit, with a video showing the unpatched game running side-by-side with their patched version. …