Borderlands 4 Launch Marred by PC Performance Issues Despite record Player Numbers
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Borderlands 4 blasted onto the Steam platform yesterday, immediately achieving remarkable player counts. The game peaked at 207,479 simultaneous players, a new record for the Borderlands series. This surpasses Borderlands 2‘s peak of 124,678, Borderlands 3‘s 93,820, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel‘s 68,238. Tho, this triumphant launch has been significantly overshadowed by widespread complaints regarding PC performance. The game initially received a “Mostly Negative” review score on Steam, which has since improved to “Mixed” as some players find workarounds.
What’s Happening?
The core issue revolves around poor optimization, leading to low frame rates, crashes, and overall instability, even on high-end gaming PCs. Players are reporting issues across a range of hardware configurations.
Here’s a breakdown of the reported problems:
* Low Frame Rates: Many users are struggling to achieve a stable 60 frames per second (fps) even on low graphical settings.
* Crashes: Frequent crashes are preventing some players from even starting the game.
* Unreal Engine 5 Blame: A common sentiment points to the game’s use of Unreal Engine 5 as a contributing factor to the optimization problems.
* GPU specific Issues: Reports suggest the issues are particularly pronounced for some Nvidia GPUs.
Player Testimonials:
* “Terrible optimization. Another victim of Unreal Engine 5. Not worth buying in the current state, unless you have a NASA PC,” one player commented.
* “Terrible, terrible performance. Never played so bad. The graphic settings were on Low and I still couldn’t get 60 fps, even with FSR on my RX 6900 XT,” another gamer reported.