SolvedFixUpdated · 33 replies on Steam

Borderlands 4 Performance (Fix)

Short answer

Nexus Mods (spits) has utility mods to optimize the game to your preference (FPS, detail, whatever), but YMMV. Many people report that turning down the lighting and foliage helps them.

How to fix it

  1. Install optimization and utility mods from Nexus Mods to customize your frame rate and visual detail to your liking.
  2. Lower the in-game lighting and foliage settings to improve frame rates.
  3. Perform a clean installation of your graphics card drivers by downloading a known stable driver directly from Nvidia instead of using Windows Update.

If it still doesn't work

  • Check if other hardware components in your build are causing a bottleneck with your graphics card.
  • Recheck any custom hardware adjustments you have made, such as undervolting or overclocking.
  • Be aware that falling through the map is a known bug introduced in the latest content patch that currently lacks a direct fix.

What players reported

I recently upgraded from a 3060 to a 5090, but the performance is way worse. I cleared the shader cache but that didn't help. Anyone have any ideas?

Hexborne, original post

Accepted answer

Nexus Mods (spits) has utility mods to optimize the game to your preference (FPS, detail, whatever), but YMMV. Many people report that turning down the lighting and foliage helps them.

Mister Xiado, marked as the answer

Other suggestions

Which 5090 did you get? With that upgraded GPU, what are the specs of the rest of the build? Perhaps something is not agreeing well with it. Did you do a clean install of the drivers? Even try downloading an older but known "good" driver for BL4? (from Nvidia, not Windows update) Anything adjusted in your setup? (overclocking, undervolting, etc) Just some questions that might narrow down the…

Junipercat

Falling through the map is a new bug of which I am not permitted to posit a theory. It was not present until the most recent content patch, and when combined with all of the other longstanding annoyances that have not been fixed, has been many people's last straw.

Mister Xiado

Nope, it's just the game. I fixed my problem. My specs are quite high, my GPU was the only bottleneck in my build. Built it during Covid when prices were low.

Hexborne

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Source: original Steam Community discussion. Quotes are shortened; all credit goes to the posters. Tags: performance, nvidia, amd, mods, quest

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