Tech experts say Borderlands 4 on PC is worse than usual in Unreal Engine 5 games.
Blog Andrew Joseph 16 Sep , 2025 0
Technological experts say Border 4 There are major stuttering issues on PC and it is recommended not to run the game on its “bad guy” graphics settings.
Borderlands 4 launched BIG on Steam, but currently sits on the “hybrid” user review rating, mainly due to complaints about how the game works on PC, even on high-end rigs where PC gamers don’t get the graphics performance they expect.
Randy Pitchford, head of gearbox development, spent some time addressing these complaints on social media, Even if you directly respond to some dissatisfied fans, you can clap your hands.
Now, technical experts Digital casting Watch Borderlands 4 on PC, theirs Initial Analysis Over the past few years, the stuttering problem has been shown to be familiar to anyone around Unreal Engine's game performance.
According to DF's Alex Battaglia, shaders compile stutters (you may notice that Borderlands 4s spend time compiling shaders while waiting to load the game) can cause stutters, and the engine does something in a new area for the first time, like your character picking up a new weapon or having an enemy with a new death animation.
PC gamers have been complaining about Unreal Engine Games for some time, but last month the epic game owner Tim Sweeney (Epic, developer of Fortnite, made Unreal Engine) The way developers are advised to make Unreal Engine 5 games should be blamed.
Battaglia said that no matter who should blame Borderlands 4, the Stutter problem “makes the experience less good”.
Ranking of vault hunters in border areas
Ranking of vault hunters in border areas
He also noted that as you get close, the vegetation starts to animate and “when doing this, it does flip clearly and it looks like a Lord is changing.”
“I don't know why they did that,” Bataglia said. “When you travel through the world, there's a lot of grass on the ground, you see a lot of things that look like pop-ups happening. In fact, it's just an opening of the animation. So if you do see pop-ups, it's probably not a pop-up in the traditional sense, but just a vegetation-opening animation. It looks a little weird.”
Meanwhile, the live cutscenes are limited to 30fps, which is a “slightly weird” as you can suddenly crash to 30 from the higher frame rates in the gameplay, “it seems a bit out of place in first-person games.”
DF chief Rich Leadbetter pointed out that Battaglia experienced “the fastest gaming CPU that money can buy” during the team's tests, indicating a major problem here.
Meanwhile, DF comments on PC players’ performance on the game, even on powerful PCs. Battaglia warns that even if your PC should be able to handle it, even if the things you get from Badass don't prove “very high” to use it, even if your PC can handle it, you can run on what's called “Badass” graphics presets with nowhere.
“From a higher point of view, I definitely don't think you should turn this game into a bad guy,” Battaglia said. “It's inefficient in an epic environment. Not well used. Usually, this is actually a placebo-level thing. There may be some middle ground there that will give you a better visual experience.”
John Linneman of DF added: “For Unreal Engine 5 games, this seems worse than usual. It's in situations where it seems like other games should be given the engine.”
According to DF, recently released PC updates – The one without patches – Nothing seems to be improved. Gearbox said it will continue to update the game, but PC players want meaningful patches faster than later.
Meanwhile, Gearbox has been released on the Borderlands 4 NVIDIA Optimization Guide steamIt is recommended how players can use the NVIDIA application to optimize their graphics settings on their PC for “better performance and frame rate”. The gearbox also issued suggestions to PC gamers To me, reading is like preventing players from responding to the performance of the game immediately after changing settings.: “Note that whenever you change any graphics settings, the shader needs to be recompiled. Keep playing for at least 15 minutes to see how your PC's performance changes.”
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