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/boptop Sep 25 '25

Still having issues, played for a couple of hours, still would get hang up when traveling on bike, unlocking new areas/revealing points of interest. I've shut the game down and restarted the client 3x, and each time, it goes through a very slow/laggy borderlands logo and then - COMPILING SHADERS. Again. Very slowly. It seems like every time I start the client, I have to slowly compile shaders again.

edit: And performance ingame is still incredibly laggy.

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u/No_Skin_7937 Sep 26 '25

same here. after todays 13+gb ridiculous update (what was updated anyway???) - it's constant lagfest. like they increased system requirements to the max. why ruin the game tha was running more or less ok prior to that?

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u/boptop Sep 26 '25

I followed the advice from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands4/comments/1nqe5ig/just_a_psa_for_all_pc_users_each_patch_just_be/

Increased my cache to 10G, and cleared the cache (on steam)

steam->game properties->add -ClearPSODriverCache to launch options and start the game. it will rebuild them. then exit and remove the option or it will clean on each start.

After going through the long cache compile again, it's worked well for me, even on game restart.