Oblivion Remastered's lastest patch removes upscaling on Game Pass, for some reason

If you’re playing the recently released Oblivion Remastered on PC via the Xbox Windows app, then you’ll likely have noticed a quick 2GB update that dropped earlier today. While we haven’t received any official patch notes from the developers yet, it’s assumed that this patch is mostly bug fixes, as the Remaster has introduced a fair few bugs that weren’t in the original.

However, there is one notable change that seems very strange, and we’re yet to work out if it was a mistake or intentional on the developer’s part. Now, if you play on the PC version via Game Pass, your graphics settings menu will have gotten smaller as many of the upscaling options have been removed.

The game’s menu descriptions still tout the capabilities, but the Anti-Aliasing option is now greyed out, and the “Upscaling Technique” option no longer lets you pick any option other than “off”. Similarly, the menu still describes the Nvidia 40 series cards will have frame generation options, but they are once again nowhere to be found.

All of these options still exist on the Steam version on PC, so it seems there’s something specific about the Game Pass version that requires these options to be disabled. It isn’t uncommon for these two PC versions of the game to have differences between updates, so there could be any number of reasons for it, but unless we get another update soon or we get offical patch notes, we can’t say for sure.

If you want to know more about how Oblivion runs, then check out our guide to Quality vs Performance mode for Oblivion Remastered on console.