Borderlands 4 launches to 'Mixed' Steam rating due to performance issues and bugs

[Tam 212]

 

[Burty117]

No but it came out 5 years ago and was considered upper midrange vs the 6900xt and 6950xt. We are 2 generations past rdna 2 now. According to unreal engine 5 it is considered potato level hardware. 7700xt similar performance gets around 40 fps at 1080p.View attachment 90669

Right, but the game runs at 60fps fairly easily on consoles, that are quite a bit less powerful than your “potato” GPU…

 

[EvilRebar]

On one side, I feel sorry for people who paid full price. On the other side, this is u5. Every wild animal knows that it requires newer gen GPU. People expect it to run on their ancient GPUs, many use resolution above 1080p. I learned early on that anything above 2k was too heavy on my watercooled gtx1080. And it was long time ago when it was still a formidable GPU.

What's newer gen than a 5080 or 5090?

 

[EvilRebar]

With upscaling it isn't as bad as the chart requiring 4X frame gen implied (see pic).

But it's still pretty bad.

I like to play at least at 1440p, Very High settings, DLSS Quality (or off), and 90+ FPS.

Very High gives +10% from Badassery (https://www.techpowerup.com/review/borderlands-4-performance-benchmark/4.html) and 5080 is another +12% on average. So...

5070 TI at 1440p, Very High, DLSS Quality = 79 FPS
5080 at 1440p, Very High, DLSS Quality = 89 FPS

$1000+ GPU can almost reach my minimum "playability" threshold. Crazy.

It's also wild how little lowering the resolution or upscaling sample res helps. Something is definitely broken. I'm not sure if that gives us more or less hope for the chances of improvements.

I don't mind turning on Frame Gen and say DLSS balanced for 120FPS@3440x1440, but your game had better look fantastic.

Like, "better than Path Traced Cyberpunk" fantastic.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

I don't mind turning on Frame Gen and say DLSS balanced for 120FPS@3440x1440, but your game had better look fantastic.

Like, "better than Path Traced Cyberpunk" fantastic.

I will do DLSS balanced on 4K with the new transformer one.

I don't like frame gen though because I like as little lag as possible, so really I prefer 120+ but I will lower settings to stay above 90FPS.

I just get annoyed when I have to lower things too much. But High or Very High and Medium to High RT is usually fine. I can see an improvement with RT but often the Max RT is a really small difference for even more punishing compute.