If you're a Mac user curious about playing The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered on Apple Silicon — specifically the M4 Pro chip in the latest Mac mini — here's the good news: it runs really well.
I tested the game using CrossOver with Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, with FSR 3 enabled for upscaling. On high settings, performance ranged between 50 and 110 FPS, even in large outdoor areas. While overall performance was impressive — especially for a compatibility layer — there were occasional stutters during area loading, where the game would briefly freeze for a few seconds before recovering.
One thing to watch out for: don’t enable V-Sync. It immediately locks the game to 30 FPS, which kills the experience. Keep it off for smooth, unlocked performance.
However, there’s one annoying visual glitch that kept popping up — and it seems specific to Apple’s newer M4 chips. In areas with lots of foliage, like trees or bushes blowing in the wind, the leaves start flickering, ghosting, or looking semi-transparent, almost like water ripples. From far away it looks fine, but up close it becomes hard to ignore.
I tried tweaking shadows, anti-aliasing, wind simulation, even rebuilding the shader cache — but nothing fully fixed it. The glitch seems to be tied to how Unreal Engine 5 handles Nanite foliage + masked materials + upscaling (FSR/TAA) on Metal.
That said, it’s mostly visual — the game remains fully playable and responsive. If you can live with the foliage glitch, Oblivion Remastered runs impressively well on macOS, especially with modern upscaling enabled.
Want to see it in action? Check out my gameplay footage and let me know if you’ve had similar issues on your system.