Bethesda Releasing Oblivion Patch for Xbox 360, PC; HDR Fix Released (News)

Vicious Sid, GamePro

11/04/2006 11:41:43

Bethesda's Pete Hines recently shared the company's plans for updating The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

"We are working on a patch/update for both the PC and Xbox 360," Hines said, saying that the company is working to finish it "as fast as we can."

Aside from some localization issues, Hines shared no details on what issues the patches would fix, or whether or not the frame-rate inconsistencies or lengthy load times would be on the list.

Hines also announced that the next two downloads for Oblivion - two new buildings called "The Wizards Tower" and "The Orrery" - will cost just 150 points on Xbox 360. The company came under some criticism for charging US$2.00 for a new set of horse armour last week.

Finally, ATi has released an unofficial patch for Oblivion. The patch allows both anti-aliasing and High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting effects to be enabled at the same time, a feature that is currently only available on the Xbox 360 version.

The so-called "Chuck" patch only works with high-end Radeon X1000 model boards, and no Geforce-class cards. It also enables superior dual-card, SLI performance.