While it's now far from uncommon for a game to struggle with performance issues at launch, Borderlands 4 finds itself in a unique position. This is because, rather than developer Gearbox committing to just fixing the reported issues, its CEO, Randy Pitchford, is busy making bold claims about gamers and PC hardware on social media, while also using customer service data to deny that the issue is widespread.
Well, I finally had the chance to give Borderlands 4 a go on PC using our RTX 4070 testing rig, which we use to benchmark all the latest releases, and my experience was far from positive. Taking Randy's claims about gamers expecting to run super high graphics on low-spec PCs into consideration, I only ran the game on the medium graphics preset, while presenting my data and general experience. Our rig may not use the best graphics card or CPU, but it's still a very capable gaming PC, often running the latest releases at the high preset with decent frame rates at 1080p and 1440p.
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