How to Turn Off Ray Tracing in Oblivion Remastered
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If your FPS drops harder than a mudcrab in a fistfight, you're probably wondering how to turn off ray tracing in Oblivion Remastered. The good news? You can disable or at least reduce it. The bad news? There’s no giant button labeled "Ray Tracing: Off." Instead, you have to mess with Lumen and Lighting settings.
Oblivion Remastered runs on Unreal Engine 5, which uses Lumen for its fancy lighting and reflections. This is where the ray tracing magic (and performance drops) come from.
How to Disable or Lower Ray Tracing Effects
Open the Settings Menu
Pause the game and head into Options > Display Settings.Find the Lumen or Lighting Options
Look for settings related to Lumen or anything mentioning lighting quality. Depending on your setup, it might say something like:Lumen: Hardware / Software / Off
Global Illumination or Reflections
Lower These Settings
Set Lumen to Off or Software if available.
Drop lighting and reflections to a lower preset (like Medium or Low).
Turn off additional features like Screen Space Reflections if listed.
Restart the Game
Some players report that changes don’t fully kick in until you restart. So, give it a quick reboot just to be safe.
What About DLSS and Frame Generation?
If you're still seeing performance issues:
Enable DLSS (if you have an NVIDIA card) and set it to Balanced or Performance.
Turn Frame Generation on if your GPU supports it.
These won’t turn off ray tracing but will help balance things out.
Final Blurb
So while there’s no “kill ray tracing forever” button, tweaking the Lumen and lighting settings will do the trick for the most part. Your GPU will thank you, and you might even get to enjoy Cyrodiil without feeling like you're playing a slideshow. If you're still struggling after that—well, welcome to Unreal Engine 5 gaming.
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