Borderlands 4 System Requirements: Should You Be Worried?

Game optimization and performance minimums are a thing some of us are passionate about here at 2Game. Getting things to work just right while looking delightful still is a bit of an art form depending on who you ask and what you're trying to play your games on, and Borderlands 4 seems like it may be problematic for low-spec machines.

That's right: Gearbox Software has finally issued out the initial batch of Borderlands 4 PC system requirements, and though we're not necessarily surprised by it, we do believe some of you will be. Not positively, either. The fact of the matter is that Borderlands 4 seems to be rather low-spec-unfriendly as of right now, and we've got some unfortunate implications of this to discuss. Let's get to it.

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Official Borderlands 4 PC System Requirements are In

Though Borderlands 4's official recommended system specs aren't totally out of this world, they are steeper than you might've expected, given how similar it looks to Borderland 3. The recommended GPU is the reasonably fast RTX 3080, for example, and Gearbox suggests stocking at least 32 GB of RAM to be able to max the game out. Here are the hard specs, starting with the minimum!

Minimum Borderlands 4 PC Spec

Recommended Borderlands 4 PC Spec

Of particular note here is that not all RTX 3080s will be able to max Borderlands 4 out, by Gearbox's own admission. Remember that the initial batch of RTX 3080s actually had only 10 GB of VRAM, only for Nvidia to bump the spec up to 12 GB of VRAM later on. Those constraints are starting to get really annoying here, from the look of things, and it's not going to get any better anytime soon for the original 3080 owners.

Lots to mull on, then, and lots of information to stay tuned for as we near September 12, Borderlands 4's current official release date. Note that we've got comprehensive low-spec PC optimization and modification guides here at 2Game, not the least of which is this chunky list of tips & tricks that we highly recommend, even if you're not stuck with a low-end rig. They've come in so handy so many times that it's not even funny, and we're preparing a big Lossless Scaling guide, as well!

We'll have more to discuss about Borderlands 4 specifically as Gearbox unveils more information about it. Of course, there's the September launch too, which we'll cover in substantial detail, rest assured on that front.

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