Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Keep Playing for at Least 15 Minutes After They Tweak Settings to See How Performance Has Changed, as Negative Steam Reviews Pile Up

Borderlands 4 has launched connected Steam to large concurrent subordinate numbers, but the merchandise was marred by complaints astir PC show that person resulted successful a ‘mixed’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Valve’s platform.

Borderlands 4 peaked astatine 207,479 concurrent subordinate numbers connected Steam yesterday, September 11, which was importantly higher than immoderate erstwhile Borderlands earlier it. However, the crippled launched to ‘mostly negative’ Steam reviews implicit show issues and crashing, earlier recovering overnight to ‘mixed.’

The complaints revolve astir mediocre show adjacent connected precocious powered PCs, with immoderate affected by crashing that makes the crippled hard to adjacent start.

“Terrible optimization. Another Unreal Engine 5 casualty. Not worthy buying successful its existent authorities unless you person a NASA PC,” said 1 idiosyncratic successful a antagonistic review.

“Terrible, unspeakable performance. Worst I've ever seen. Turned it down to Low graphics presets and couldn't deed 60 FPS, adjacent with FSR upscaling connected my RX 6900 XT,” said another.

In response, Gearbox posted a Borderlands 4 Nvidia Optimization usher connected Steam, advising players however to optimize their graphics settings for “better show and framerates” connected PC with the Nvidia app.

“As PC gamers statesman their Vault-hunting journeys successful Borderlands 4, we've seen aboriginal feedback from the assemblage surrounding graphics settings and however to execute optimal performance,” Gearbox said, earlier outlining the “expected results” for the Borderlands 4 PC specs:

• Minimum PC specs - 1080p @ 30FPS with Low Preset settings
• Recommended PC specs - 1440p @ 60FPS with Medium Preset settings

Gearbox past issued a portion of proposal to PC gamers that to maine reads similar an effort to forestall players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game's show arsenic soon arsenic they’ve changed their settings: “Please enactment that immoderate clip you alteration immoderate of your graphics settings, your shaders volition request to recompile. Please support playing for astatine slightest 15 minutes to spot however your PC's show has changed.”

Gearbox went connected to amusement the “Optimal Settings” charts provided by Nvidia with suggestions for which graphics settings whitethorn enactment champion for your operation of GPU and desired show resolution. Meanwhile, it recommended utilizing the Nvidia app to download and instal Nvidia’s newest Game Ready Driver (581.29) and “optimize for your system.” If each other fails, “please interaction 2K Support for nonstop assistance.”

Gearbox and steadfast 2K Games volition beryllium keen to code the show complaints early, fixed the interaction antagonistic reviews connected Steam tin person connected a video game’s success. Ahead of launch, Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford had said the Borderlands 4 Day 1 spot “does a lot,” amid interest astir the show of the looter shooter. Pitchford had responded to interest astir Borderlands 4’s pre-release show connected PC from immoderate users connected X / Twitter.

Despite the Day 1 patch, playing Borderlands 4 connected older hardware won't miraculously unlock "buttery creaseless performance," Pitchford added. It should beryllium expected that Borderlands 4 is “unplayable” if you’re trying to usage a PC beneath min-spec, helium said, and, generally, playing caller AAA games connected older hardware won't execute awesome results.

Here’s Pitchford's remark successful full:

The Day 1 spot does a lot! That said, the anticipation for utilizing a beneath min-spec instrumentality should beryllium that the crippled is unplayable. That the crippled runs astatine each connected your strategy is simply a miracle. That you tin get 55 - 60 fps retired of dense combat is really unthinkable fixed however the motor and what's going connected nether the hood. Your specification doesn't bespeak if you're connected SDD oregon HDD, but that could besides explicate immoderate of the hitching. It's a big, bold, new, seamless satellite and I'm atrocious to accidental that older hardware whitethorn not supply buttery creaseless show for the latest gen AAA games, arsenic has ever been the lawsuit since the dawn of PC gaming.

As a reminder, present are Borderlands 4’s PC specs:

Borderlands 4 System Requirements:

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11
• Processor: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580
• Storage: 100 GB disposable space
• Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Requires 8 CPU Cores for processor. Requires 8 GB VRAM for graphics. SSD retention required

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11
• Processor: Intel Core i7-12700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
• Memory: 32 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Intel Arc B580
• Storage: 100 GB disposable space
• Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. SSD retention required

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