Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering

Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has asked PC gamers to hold 15 minutes for shaders to compile successful the inheritance portion playing aft immoderate said this week’s update had caused accrued stuttering.

The update, released September 25 (check retired the spot notes here), was meant to amended Borderlands 4’s high-profile show issues connected PC, but soon aft it rolled out, immoderate players complained astir stuttering.

Borderlands 4 is inactive connected a mixed Steam reappraisal rating, with astir of the antagonistic comments revolving astir PC performance. The tech experts astatine Digital Foundry person said their archetypal investigation of Borderlands 4 connected PC showed important stutter problems, and advised against moving the crippled connected its ‘Badass’ graphics setting.

Responding to the accrued stutter issues reported by PC gamers, Gearbox issued a connection connected societal media, below, calling connected players to springiness the looter shooter 15 minutes of gameplay to proceed to compile shaders successful the background, by which clip those stuttering issues should resolve. If that doesn’t work, Gearbox suggested manually clearing your shader cache via your video paper manufacturer’s approved method. And, if each other fails, Gearbox pointed to its enactment summons process.

As anyone who’s played Borderlands 4 connected PC knows, erstwhile you archetypal footwear up the crippled you indispensable hold for shaders to compile earlier you spawn into the virtual world. But this process doesn’t look to drawback each the shader compilation that mightiness person to beryllium done during gameplay, causing stutter. At least, that’s the moving theory.

Gearbox’s latest connection echoes erstwhile proposal it issued connected Steam that to maine work similar an effort to forestall players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game's show arsenic soon arsenic they 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.” This latest proposal reads overmuch the aforesaid to me.

Meanwhile, immoderate players are recommending traveling to definite zones successful the crippled to brute unit shaders to compile earlier moving connected to what they really privation to bash in-game.

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