{"id":1320781,"date":"2026-04-26T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/KLKMQh9wrhAjpbunGHvGkH"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:38:14","slug":"borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 4 launches to &#8216;mostly negative&#8217; reviews on Steam thanks to widespread performance problems and crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-release-date-trailers\/\">Borderlands 4<\/a> is out today, and it&#8217;s been very well received critically, at least by those sites who received pre-release code\u2014a list that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/why-we-dont-have-a-borderlands-4-review-yet\/\">does not include PC Gamer<\/a>. It&#8217;s a different situation over <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1285190\/Borderlands_4\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Steam<\/a>, however, where a whole lot of people are playing Borderlands 4, but the overall user rating is an ugly &#8220;mostly negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem, going by hundreds of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1285190\/Borderlands_4\/#app_reviews_hash\" target=\"_blank\">user reviews<\/a> that have already been posted, is almost entirely related to Borderlands 4&#8217;s performance. Multiple Steam users report low frame rates and persistent stuttering, even at reduced graphical settings and on powerful hardware, and complaints about frequent crashes are also common.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrible, terrible performance. Worst I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Etikoo wrote in one negative review. &#8220;Turned it down to Low graphics presents and couldn&#8217;t hit 60 FPS, even with FSR upscaling on my RX 6900 XT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;30fps at native medium to high settings on 1440p with a 3080 TI,&#8221; pirate135246 concurred. &#8220;It also looks worse than BL3 tbh. Idk how it runs this bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some sites that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-review-round-up-the-best-borderlands-game-ive-ever-played-but-with-a-small-hitch\/\">reviewed the PC version<\/a> cited performance issues as well: Windows Central&#8217;s Michael Hoglund says Borderlands 4&#8217;s fun gunplay was frequently undermined by &#8220;intermittent zone loading&#8221; and framerate drops.<\/p>\n<p>Our hardware tester, Nick Evanson, has experienced similar problems in his initial testing today, although he noted that a 2.7GB post-launch patch helped reduce the frequency of crashes. That was presumably the day one patch Randy Pitchford confirmed a few days ago, though it seemingly didn&#8217;t appear until after the game went live: There&#8217;s no indication on the Borderlands 4 Steam page of a separate hotfix being rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>Even some positive reviews are down on the game&#8217;s performance: One such thumbs-up assessment states, &#8220;Game is good but the performance is not, frame gen + DLSS is almost mandatory if you do not have RTX 5090.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1990px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:88.39%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Emqig5vMyLhR9mYPk9MgnR\" name=\"bl4rev\" alt=\"Borderlands 4 Steam user reviews\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1990\" height=\"1759\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Steam)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We got a whiff of possible concerns about Borderlands 4&#8217;s performance earlier this week, when Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford said gamers should have <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/gearbox-boss-says-borderlands-4-day-one-patch-does-a-lot-but-warns-that-players-should-have-realistic-expectations-about-performance-older-hardware-may-not-provide-buttery-smooth-performance\/\">&#8220;realistic&#8221; expectations about how the game will run<\/a>, especially on older hardware: &#8220;This is a big, open AAA game and lower-end and older hardware may not perform as well as higher-end, modern PCs,&#8221; Pitchford said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good advice in general, but it also felt\u2014to me, anyway\u2014a bit like we were being prepared for the worst: And, well, here we are, not in a catastrophic state, but pretty far from ideal, too.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been no reaction yet from Gearbox about the problems, or indication of what it intends to do about it, but I would expect we&#8217;ll see something on that front soon enough. It is very early, after all\u2014Borderlands 4 only launched a few hours ago\u2014and it takes time to react, even when things go south so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And while the user rating sure isn&#8217;t great, the concurrent player counts are: <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1285190\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a> says Borderlands 4 is currently sitting at more than 192,000 players, far surpassing the previous games in the series (remembering that Borderlands 3 launched as an Epic Games Store exclusive) and likely to go up even higher over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"ce302fb0-6361-4c10-b0c5-edf4c080473c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension48=\"Borderlands 4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:841px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Di7aagQAgXgEx92v4Cq4gn\" name=\"borderlands-4\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"841\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-release-date-trailers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"ce302fb0-6361-4c10-b0c5-edf4c080473c\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension48=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Borderlands 4<\/strong><\/a>: Everything we know<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-shift-codes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 4 Shift codes<\/strong><\/a>: The new key connection<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-harlowe-build\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 4 Harlowe builds<\/strong><\/a>: The amped-up Gravitar<br \/><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-rafa-build\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 4 Rafa builds<\/strong><\/a>: The speed-demon Exo-Soldier<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-vex-build\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 4 Vex builds<\/strong><\/a>: The spooky Siren<br \/><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-amon-build\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 4 Amon builds<\/strong><\/a>: The fierce Forgeknight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borderlands 4 is out today, and it&#8217;s been very well received critically, at least by those sites who received pre-release code\u2014a list that does not include PC Gamer. It&#8217;s a different situation over on Steam, however, where a whole lot of people are playing Borderlands 4, but the overall user rating is an ugly &#8220;mostly negative.&#8221; The problem, going by hundreds of user reviews that have already been posted, is almost entirely related to Borderlands 4&#8217;s performance. Multiple Steam users report low frame rates and persistent stuttering, even at reduced graphical settings and on powerful hardware, and complaints about frequent crashes are also common. &#8220;Terrible, terrible performance. Worst I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Etikoo wrote in one negative review. &#8220;Turned it down to Low graphics presents and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1320781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Borderlands 4 launches to &#039;mostly negative&#039; reviews on Steam thanks to widespread performance problems and crashes | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Borderlands 4 is out today, and it&#039;s been very well received critically, at least by those sites who received pre-release code\u2014a list that does not\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/borderlands-4-launches-to-mostly-negative-reviews-on-steam-thanks-to-widespread-performance-problems-and-crashes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borderlands 4 launches to &#039;mostly negative&#039; 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