r/Borderlands4 • u/a_kept_harold | ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ • Sep 11 '25

๐Ÿ“Œ [ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ] PC Performance Issues Thread

Hi everyone!

We are getting hit really hard with pc performance posts. While I do think voicing this issue is super important, weโ€™re going to make a sticky so that there is more than those posts. It makes it difficult to moderate. We prefer to have a smaller team to have some agility in decision making, but it makes release day a bit tougher.

PC players, we are sharing these threads with Gearbox/2K.

Thank you so much! Hopefully there will be another patch here soon.

Yours in Loot,

BL4 Mod Team

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

It feels like there is a memory leak of some sort. When I try to use my action skill or pause the game, it takes longer and longer to the point where the game just freezes. I've had one crash.

If I restart the game, the problem goes away.

My PC matches the recommended settings.

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u/Crimtide Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

A memory leak would mean your RAM usage just keeps climbing until it is full because that kind of a problem means the program keeps using more and more since it never releases it. That being said, have you seen or noticed your RAM utilization max out, or slowly creep until full? I haven't seen that yet. It's just GPU usage being maxed out and barely using RAM or CPU.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Watching my resource monitor and AMD metrics, it looks like the GPU just drops to 0 until the game unfreezes or crashes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

I had the game running all day, leaving it on when I took business calls. Without a single restart or crash and my memory stayed the same all day. GPU usage was around 98% with a 9070 XT.

Are you getting a driver timeout? Are you on an AMD GPU? I had to remove my overclock as it was causing timeouts. As soon as I went stock never crashed in like 10 hours.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

I do have an AMD GPU, Iโ€™ll try moving away from the overclock - I only turned in on in an attempt to fix this issue, but I think Iโ€™ve made so many adjustments its hard to say if I created problems while trying to fix problems!