Best PC Configuration for Borderlands 4

After 7 years of waiting in tension, Borderlands 4 has finally appeared, opening a new era for the legendary looter-shooter game series. Despite being praised by the community, the new 'beast' from Gearbox has one immediate scratch: poor optimization on PC. As if being haunted by the 'Unreal Engine 5 curse', most players have complained about the game's performance drops on all types of machines.

If you are also suffering from this situation, here is the best PC configuration guide for Borderlands 4, helping you hunt bosses smoothly, without worrying about FPS dropping freely.

Optimal graphics settings for Borderlands 4

Basic Settings

1. Display mode: Windowed Fullscreen
2. Resolution: 1920 x 1080
3. Frame Limit: Off
4. Custom FPS: 120
5. V-Sync: On
6. Field of View (FOV): 100–110 (adjustable)
7. FOV while driving: 100–110 (adjustable)

Advanced Settings

1. Upscaling: DLSS (Nvidia) / FSR (AMD) / TSR (other)
2. Upscaling Quality: Quality
3. Spatial Upscaling: Off
4. Scene Capture Quality: Full Resolution
5. Frame Generation: Off
6. HLOD Loading Range: Far
7. Geometry Quality: Medium
8. Texture Quality: Medium
9. Texture Streaming Speed: Very High
10. Anisotropic Filtering: x4
11. Grass density: Low
12. Volumetric fog: Low
13. Volumetric clouds: Low
14. Shadow: Medium
15. Shade direction: Medium
16. Volumetric cloud shadow: Off
17. Light: High
18. Reflection: Medium
19. Shading: High
20. Post-processing: High
21. Motion Blur: Off (0)

With these settings, if your PC reaches (or is close to) the recommended configuration, you will have a stable experience, no FPS drop when looting legendary guns or solo raiding bosses.

If the frame is still not stable, try the following settings:

1. Reduce Texture Quality to Low (to lighten the load on the GPU).
2. Reduce Anisotropic Filtering to 2x or off.
3. If you prioritize FPS over graphics: lower Lighting Quality to Low.
4. Borderlands 4 Setup for Low-End PC

Basic Settings

1. Display mode: Full screen window
2. Resolution: 2560 x 1440 or 1920 x 1080 (depending on screen)
3. Frame Limit: On
4. Custom FPS: 140
5. V-Sync: Off
6. Field of View (FOV): 100–110
7. FOV while driving: 100–110
8. Advanced Settings
9. Upscaling: DLSS (Nvidia) / FSR (AMD) / TSR (other)
10. Upscaling Quality: Balanced or Performance
11. Spatial Upscaling: Off
12. Scene Capture Quality: Full Resolution
13. Frame Generation: Off
14. HLOD Loading Range: Far
15. Geometry Quality: Medium
16. Texture Quality: Low
17. Texture Streaming Speed: Very High
18. Anisotropic Filtering: x2
19. Grass Density: Very Low/Off
20. Volumetric fog: Low
21. Volumetric clouds: Low
22. Shadow: Low
23. Ball direction: Low
24. Volumetric cloud shadow: Off
25. Light: Low
26. Reflection: Medium
27. Shading: Low
28. Post-processing: Medium
29. Motion Blur: Off (0)

Borderlands 4 even challenges high-end GPUs like the RTX 5090. If your PC is just a 'rookie' level, the only way is to turn almost everything down to the lowest, prioritizing Balanced or Performance in Upscaling to keep the FPS rate.

We've kept Geometry Quality and Reflections at Medium, as they don't have much of an impact on performance. Otherwise, keep them to a minimum to ensure a smooth looting experience.

Lesley Montoya

Update 15 September 2025