Overview

• Borderlands 4 peaked at roughly 207,000 concurrent Steam players, marking the series’ biggest PC launch to date.
• The Steam rating is Mixed as players report stutter, frame drops, and crashes on PC, despite generally favorable critic scores (~84 Metacritic).
• Benchmarks indicate even flagship GPUs dip below 60 fps at high settings without upscaling, pushing many to use DLSS/FSR and frame generation.
• A 2.7 GB day-one patch reduced crash-to-desktop reports, and Gearbox posted Nvidia optimization charts as Randy Pitchford urged performance tweaks.
• Take-Two denied spyware allegations linked to the EULA and anti-cheat, and console users flagged the absence of an FOV slider and a motion-blur toggle.