One of the best parts about owning a PC, besides the sheer amount of games on sale all the time, is arguably the presence of mods. Whether they help to expand the roster of a video game, like the Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero mod that adds 745 characters, or help to improve the visuals and performance of a game, like in Avowed, mods can be a massive game-changer for PC players.
The classic games will still hold up, if we let them.
Recently, with the announcement and shadowdrop of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, players have been making use of the many mods available. So much so that Oblivion Remastered is being modded at a rate faster than any game in history. That said, it appears that one of Oblivion's most popular mods doesn't actually do anything.
To start, a performance-based mod for Oblivion that seeks to remove stutters, improve performance and stability, as well as the game's visuals stands as one of the game's most popular additions. As of this writing, it has over 600,000 downloads via Nexus Mods, nearly 300,000 more than the next closest mod.
But as GamesRadar noted in a recent report, its...