Borderlands 4 Performance Gets Worse the Longer You Play on Console, Randy Pitchford Suggests Quitting the Game and Restarting as a Workaround

Are you playing Borderlands 4 connected console and person noticed unusual show problems the longer you play? You’re not alone.

Players person reported their frames per 2nd number fluctuating and gameplay stuttering connected console, adjacent connected PS5 Pro. In fact, oddly, particularly connected the much almighty PS5 Pro.

Some players deliberation this mightiness beryllium the effect of Borderlands 4 suffering from a representation leak, though that remains unconfirmed for now. It seems restarting the crippled does assistance (some players are recommending restarting each fewer hours, which isn't ideal), but it’s hard to accidental precisely wherefore due to the fact that reloading tin trigger changes that would possibly amended show anyway, specified arsenic clip of time lighting.

What we do cognize is that Gearbox is looking into the issue. In a tweet, Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford told 1 disgruntled PS5 Pro idiosyncratic that quitting the crippled and restarting is simply a workaround until the developer sorts the occupation retired properly.

“Known contented of perf dropping connected PS5 pro aft respective hours of continuous play,” helium said. “Workaround until we patch: Quit crippled and restart. Sorry for the friction!”

All eyes are connected Gearbox close present amid an net backlash to the show of Borderlands 4 — which has travel contempt immense subordinate numbers connected Steam. The workplace released an update for the crippled connected PC — without spot notes — that hasn’t seemed to hole overmuch of anything.

Pitchford himself has acceptable his sights connected winning aggravated Borderlands 4 players implicit connected societal media. Since Borderlands 4’s immense Steam motorboat past week, Pitchford has issued confusing comments connected wherefore the console mentation of Borderlands 4 lacks a tract of presumption (FOV) slider, promised that it would person been intolerable to interruption the Borderlands 4 servers done sheer value of subordinate numbers alone, told radical to “code your ain motor and amusement america however it’s done, please,” and declared Borderlands 4 “a premium crippled made for premium gamers.” He's adjacent started telling Borderlands 4 players to refund the crippled connected Steam if they're that upset.

So, what’s the information of the matter? Borderlands 4 is presently connected a mixed Steam reappraisal rating, with astir of the antagonistic comments revolving astir performance. The tech experts astatine Digital Foundry person said their archetypal investigation of Borderlands 4 connected PC shows important stutter problems, and person advised against moving the crippled connected its ‘Badass’ graphics setting, which suggests determination are so problems with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

Gearbox has 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, though users study mixed results.

Gearbox has besides 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.”

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