I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon. It gives me this nostalgia feeling of where I first ran oblivion on PC on my Dell E310 with a Pentium 4 single core and GeForce 6200LE I pencil modded. I’m having to run out at 720p and 4x AF, but it feels like Xbox 360 to me and I love
Very seldom is anything dialed in right out of the box. No copium in my book, getting the game perfect is the whole point of pc gaming.
TBH I’m kinda surprised the game doesn’t run maxed out without problems. I know the IGPU wasn’t the greatest back then, but it wasn’t that bad.
My current laptop has a 96 eu iris Xe IGPU and it runs a LOT of games very well.
Yeah, it’s part of the fun.