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Oblivion Remastered for Original Oblivion

Purpose

With the Oblivion “Remaster” (more of a remake with all the unfaithful changes), there’s a bunch of features and changes that I find welcoming for revisiting and new players alike. However, the Oblivion remaster is on Unreal Engine 5, an engine notorious for poor performance with cranked to the max graphics. If you’re too poor or simply not interested in buying it, the major changes I’ve noted through my 2 hours of playing through it are going to be listed here as mods you can use for your original Oblivion playthough, with some extra things that the remake completely forgot to address.

Base

I would recommend using the Oblivion For Modern PCs in 2025 guide to get a good baseline setup for Oblivion. This will provide all bug and stability fixes required to get the game running.

User Interface

• Link Plus Plus

  MCM-like menu for mods that support it.

• NorthernUI

  This is pretty much what they did for the HUD in the remake. Slight differences here and there but this is also likely more usable than the one in the remake (way less tabs.)

• Imperial Theme for NorthernUI

  Makes NothernUI fit more into Oblivion.

• Loot Menu - NorthernUI Edition

  A feature wholly missing from the Oblivion remake, adds a loot menu.

• Loot Menu - NorthernUI Edition - Imperial Theme

  Patches Loot Menu and Imperial Theme for NorthernUI to fit stylistically.

Tweaks

• Weapon Drop Fix

  Weapons stay in inventory when an NPC dies.

• Area Harvest

  Automatically harvest all plants of the same type in a small radius at once.

• Auto Haggle

  Clicking the Haggle button will automatically get you the best price.

• Faster Dungeon Doors

  Opening speed is 2x faster for “Fort-dungeons” doors.

• Faster Horse Dismount

  Faster animation replacer for horse dismounting.

• Quest NPCs Run

  Makes slow walking quest NPCs run.

• Doomstone and Runestone Map Markers

  Adds doomstone and runestone map markers.

• Wayshrine Map Markers

  Adds wayshrine map markers.

Gameplay

• Realistic Sprint and Gallop

  Adds sprinting and horse galloping into Oblivion.

• Realistic Sprint and Gallop - NorthernUI Gamepad Support

  Adds gamepad support to Realistic Sprint and Gallop.

• Ultimate Leveling

  Overhauls the leveling system and can be made to function similarly to how the remake does it. Config file: coming soon.

• Combat Reshoveled

  Reworks combat in a vanilla friendly way. Unfortunately you’re stuck with the floating animations.

• De-Nock Arrows

  Put away your bow to avoid shooting arrows needlessly.

• Balanced Creature Stats
• Balanced NPC Level Cap
• Balanced Unleveled Rewards

  Fixes creature and NPC level scaling and removes unique item scaling.

• Knights of the Nine - Improved Infamy System

  Removes the infamy reset from completing the pilgrimage added by Knights of the Nine.

• SM DLC Plugin Refurbish

  Integrates the lesser addons.

• SM DLC Plugin Refurbish - Voiced Addon BSA

  Adds voice files to SM DLC Plugin refurbish dialogue.

Visuals

• WalkBlessed

  Adds diagonal movement and a more Skyrim-like camera.

• Accurate Skyrim Camera for WalkBlessed

  Camera preset for WalkBlessed. Makes it even more like Skyrim’s camera.

• Oblivion Reloaded Combined

  Adds new shaders, lighting, and engine patches. Set DiagonalMovement to 0 in ORC.ini if using WalkBlessed

• Mehrunes Dagon Walking Animation

  Allows Dagon to walk.

• Oblivion Character Overhaul

  All-in-one revamp of Oblivion’s character heads.

• Oblivion Character Overhaul - Advanced

  A replacer ESP for Oblivion Character Overhaul that cleans the dirty and wild edits as well as stats changes.

• Oblivion Character Overhaul - Improved NPC Faces

  Makes a number of NPCs look better with Oblivion Character Overhaul.

• Oblivion Character Overhaul - Seamless

  Seamless Replacers for Oblivion Character Overhaul’s heads and textures.

• Assorted Protective Female Armors

  Replacers for vanilla female armor.

• Assorted Protective Female Armors - Refined

  Corrected inventory icons and ground models for Assorted Protective Female Armors.

Content

The Oblivion remake doesn’t add much new content besides new voices for races and the Deluxe Edition DLC. Weapon Expansion Pack for Oblivion Nthusiasts would be a great stand-in for those. It makes the Oblivion arsenal more complete and also fixes weapons.