Borderlands 4 Update 'To Help Improve Stability for a Wide Range of PCs' Released — but There Are No Patch Notes

Gearbox has released a caller update for Borderlands 4 “to assistance amended stableness for a wide scope of PCs.” However, the developer failed to supply spot notes for the update, starring to disorder astir what it really does.

Borderlands 4 launched past week and deed a highest of implicit 300,000 concurrent players connected Steam unsocial — a fig importantly higher than immoderate Borderlands crippled released connected Valve’s platform. However, Steam reviews are ‘mixed,’ with astir of the complaints revolving astir PC performance.

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.

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.”

Over the weekend, Gearbox posted connected Steam to awesome the merchandise of a caller crippled update successful frustratingly vague presumption and with nary spot notes, leaving players to effort to enactment retired what it did, and if their show had improved. As the Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal standing suggests, results are mixed, but that’s anecdotal grounds astatine best.

“We anticipation you're having a blast successful Borderlands 4. The squad is loving seeing you each shooting and looting your mode done Kairos,” Gearbox said. “Today we're releasing a caller update to assistance amended stableness for a wide scope of PCs.”

"There is nary spot notes. Is this truly conscionable a blog station for an unhelpful optimization guide?" wondered redditor wtfwasthatdave. "The spot did not hole my crashing issues," added PBKrunch. "Game runs horribly, inactive runs horribly aft the spot and the radical saying it runs good are utilizing some framework gen and ace sampling to execute their 'frames,'" said drummerdude41.

Gearbox went connected to repetition its proposal to hold 15 minutes earlier making immoderate show calls aft tweaking settings, saying: “Please enactment that immoderate clip you alteration immoderate of your graphics settings, your shaders volition request to recompile; it whitethorn instrumentality up to 15 minutes for this process to afloat complete.”

“Thanks again for joining america connected this journey, Vault Hunters — we're conscionable getting started,” Gearbox continued. “We’re continuing to work your feedback, readying further updates and volition person much details to come.”

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