The release of Borderlands 4 has been a mixed bag for some players, especially those on PC. While the game runs smoothly on consoles, PC is a different story, as players are reporting constant crashes and unplayable stuttering in addition to low frames per second. The developers at Gearbox Software will eventually have to issue a patch or two to fully solve this problem, but in the meantime, you’ll want to ensure your PC settings are correct to maximize performance in Borderlands 4.
Below, you can see our recommended PC graphics settings in Borderlands 4 to optimize performance and FPS.
Basic Graphics Settings
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These should be considered prior to attempting advanced settings.
- Display Mode: Windowed Fullscreen or Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1920×1080 or higher, depending on your monitor
- Display Stats: FPS
- Limit Frame Rate: On (set to your monitor’s maximum refresh rate)
- Vertical Sync: Off
- Field of View: 100-110
- Vehicle Field of View: 100-110
Advanced Graphics Settings
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Here are the bigger adjustments that touch performance most.
- Upscaling Method: DLSS (Nvidia) or FSR (AMD)
- Upscaling Quality: Balanced
- Scene Capture Quality: High
- Frame Generation: On (if applicable)
- Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost (can’t use if using Frame Generation)
- HLOD Loading Range: Medium
- Geometry Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- Textures Streaming Speed: Medium
- Anisotropic Filtering Quality: x4
- Foliage Density: Medium
- Volumetric Fog: Low
- Volumetric Cloud: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Directional Shadow Quality: Low
- Lighting Quality: High
- Reflections Quality: Low
- Shading Quality: Medium
- Post-Processing Quality: High
- Motion Blur Amount: 0
- Motion Blur Quality: Off
Of course, if your PC barely meets the minimum or recommended requirements for Borderlands 4, then you’ll want to drop some of these settings to their lowest value to reach a sustainable FPS. At that point, you’ll have to give up some visual fidelity for extra performance until a patch is issued by the developers.
You can also change your Upscaling Quality to Ultra Performance or Performance, which will slightly lower visual fidelity in exchange for a noticeable boost in FPS. You should also enable Frame Generation if your GPU supports it, as we haven’t noticed any significant input delay when using the setting with an RTX 5080. Of course, your mileage may vary depending on your other components.
