In case you missed it, Borderlands 4 was released yesterday. Actually, I'm pretty sure you didn't miss it, because your newsfeeds are now likely full of positive reviews for the game itself, but a seemingly equal amount of backlash towards its poor performance. The game currently sits at a "Mixed" rating on Steam, with the chief complaint from players being the performance and early game crashing issues.
Publisher 2K Games has since updated the Steam community page with several optimised settings charts from Nvidia, but they make for unhappy reading. Maximum Frame Gen (2x for RTX 40-series owners, 4x for RTX 50-series cards), DLSS cranked to the guns—even the mighty RTX 5080, a $1,000+ GPU, appears to need a hefty dose of both to achieve 60 fps+ at 1440p resolution.
