Recent reviews by THE.MAC.GOD

I really enjoy this game, but I don't enjoy the performance.

Specs: CPU:5950x | MoBo:MSI Godlike | GPU:ASUS TUF-RTX3090-O24G-GAMING | RAM:32GB G.SKILL Trident Z Neo CAS:14 | NVMe | LG C1 4k@120

Even when the game is chugging into a slideshow (usually with mods, like Liquify), the CPU rarely goes past 10% usage -- and even then, it never goes past 20%.
The GPU is usually ~20% usage. The highest I've seen it is around 70% usage, but it's really rare.
That's a TON of performance left on the floor.

This game needs some serious threading/optimization or something.
I still recommend it, but it's frustrating seeing that much slack extended to it that it just never uses.

Also, I have to run it in windowed mode because the pointer disappears when you go full screen. Only game this happens with and it's apparently a known bug that's been around for years.

It's amazing, but leaves performance on the table. I'm often getting 25FPS @4k on my high end build [5950X:3090:3600CL14:NVMe] because only 50% of the CPU and GPU are being used (even if set to High Priority). Not sure why it's not maxing either out (it's not even a voltage/power limit being hit). Anyway, awesome aside from not getting maximum performance.

It's a ♥♥♥♥-load of Elder Scrolls content!