Gearbox Software continues to support Borderlands 4. In addition to new content, the developers have seriously worked on optimizing the game.
Borderlands 4 faced serious performance issues upon release, but Gearbox Software has been steadily improving the game since then. The team recently released an update that not only fixed a number of technical flaws, but also added new content.
The game features a new raid boss, Bloomreaper the Invincible. Defeating him can earn you nine new legendary items, with most of them being obtained at a higher difficulty level with a sufficiently fast victory.
The update also added True Mode, in which enemies scale to a group of four players regardless of the actual squad size. The mode is designed for those who want to significantly increase the difficulty.
In addition to content, Gearbox paid great attention to the technical side. Profile-Guided Optimization has been implemented in the game, providing a noticeable performance boost. The developers optimized vegetation, Lumen lighting, water and reflections, and added a number of improvements for the graphics processor from newer versions of Unreal Engine.
Model and texture pools were also reorganized, unnecessary light sources were removed, and the number of simultaneously appearing NPCs in certain locations was optimized. These changes gave a significant performance boost, especially on video cards with 8 GB of memory, where the effect was most noticeable.
Blogger Daniel Owen tested the game after the patch, and according to his data, on the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, the frame rate increased almost twice, and in some scenarios, almost three times, depending on the settings. Now owners of this video card can get about 50 FPS on maximum settings in 1440p with DLSS "Balance", while at the start it was about 18. In 1080p on maximum settings with DLSS "Quality", the average FPS increased from 33 to 61.
Additionally, the patch reduces the number of stutters, memory leaks, and crashes, and improves physics and shader compilation.
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