FPS drops with high-end specs on Borderlands 2

[crysisman546]

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I have the GOTY edition. I drop in areas like Overlook, the fountain in Sanctuary, and in high combat. I play with everything maxed except for Foliage, Ambient Occlusion, and Draw Distance at high (lower makes no difference). I also play with PhysX at low since that's sadly unoptimized despite how good it makes the game look, and with smoothed 22-62 fps with a 60Hz monitor at 1920x1080. I shouldn't be getting frame drops in this game and i've already tried turning off Dynamic Shadows, bSmoothedFramerate, Distortion off, and more. It just doesn't make a difference much.

I have my Nvidia control panel settings set to "maximum performance" and windows is set to "High performance" as well with Windows Aero turned off. I even tried "AllowD3D11=True", but that only worked a little bit. I even clean and defrag my PC weekly. I even disabled the black outlining in the game and that barely worked. I'm trying to maintain a good 60fps and or higher without drops and so far throughout the time i have played this game, it hasn't worked. Is there anything else i can do?

 

[Cristi72]

Hello,

Check this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1672024/borderlands-low-fps.html

Of course, it can also be a hardware issue; check CPU/GPU usage/temperatures (CPU: 65C, GPU: 80C).

 

[shadows1234]

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MSI 970A-G46


I have the GOTY edition. I drop in areas like Overlook, the fountain in Sanctuary, and in high combat. I play with everything maxed except for Foliage, Ambient Occlusion, and Draw Distance at high (lower makes no difference). I also play with PhysX at low since that's sadly unoptimized despite how good it makes the game look, and with smoothed 22-62 fps with a 60Hz monitor at 1920x1080. I shouldn't be getting frame drops in this game and i've already tried turning off Dynamic Shadows, bSmoothedFramerate, Distortion off, and more. It just doesn't make a difference much.

I have my Nvidia control panel settings set to "maximum performance" and windows is set to "High performance" as well with Windows Aero turned off. I even tried "AllowD3D11=True", but that only worked a little bit. I even clean and defrag my PC weekly. I even disabled the black outlining in the game and that barely worked. I'm trying to maintain a good 60fps and or higher without drops and so far throughout the time i have played this game, it hasn't worked. Is there anything else i can do?

from personal experience borderlands runs pretty badly on amd cpus and i mean it i had a 760k on my pc before paired with a 960 and it was terrible it dropped frames badly hitting 20-30fps in places like washburn refinery and the beatdown, any ways after that i bought a i3 not only did the fps increase by 30 the minimum frames was also higher only things that can be done is a upgrade to a i5 or disable physx and the cel shading which makes it look terrible

 

[crysisman546]

Cooler Master Elite 430

Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4gb

AMD FX-8350 8-Core Black Edition

Samsung SH-224DB / BEBE DVD/CD Writer

Cooler Master JetFlo 95.0 CFM 120mm Red

XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

MSI 970A-G46


I have the GOTY edition. I drop in areas like Overlook, the fountain in Sanctuary, and in high combat. I play with everything maxed except for Foliage, Ambient Occlusion, and Draw Distance at high (lower makes no difference). I also play with PhysX at low since that's sadly unoptimized despite how good it makes the game look, and with smoothed 22-62 fps with a 60Hz monitor at 1920x1080. I shouldn't be getting frame drops in this game and i've already tried turning off Dynamic Shadows, bSmoothedFramerate, Distortion off, and more. It just doesn't make a difference much.

I have my Nvidia control panel settings set to "maximum performance" and windows is set to "High performance" as well with Windows Aero turned off. I even tried "AllowD3D11=True", but that only worked a little bit. I even clean and defrag my PC weekly. I even disabled the black outlining in the game and that barely worked. I'm trying to maintain a good 60fps and or higher without drops and so far throughout the time i have played this game, it hasn't worked. Is there anything else i can do?

from personal experience borderlands runs pretty badly on amd cpus and i mean it i had a 760k on my pc before paired with a 960 and it was terrible it dropped frames badly hitting 20-30fps in places like washburn refinery and the beatdown, any ways after that i bought a i3 not only did the fps increase by 30 the minimum frames was also higher only things that can be done is a upgrade to a i5 or disable physx and the cel shading which makes it look terrible

Others told me that they upgraded their CPU's to Intel and said it didn't make much of a difference. I even found threads where people said they owned i7 3770k's, i5 4690k's, or even i7 4790k's with high-end GPU's and told me the performance still wasn't much of an improvement. The people telling me and the people in those threads had come down to the conclusion that the engine might be limited. Some said they managed to get good performance with my CPU, but it's so mixed.

 

[KudaraNami]

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MSI 970A-G46


I have the GOTY edition. I drop in areas like Overlook, the fountain in Sanctuary, and in high combat. I play with everything maxed except for Foliage, Ambient Occlusion, and Draw Distance at high (lower makes no difference). I also play with PhysX at low since that's sadly unoptimized despite how good it makes the game look, and with smoothed 22-62 fps with a 60Hz monitor at 1920x1080. I shouldn't be getting frame drops in this game and i've already tried turning off Dynamic Shadows, bSmoothedFramerate, Distortion off, and more. It just doesn't make a difference much.

I have my Nvidia control panel settings set to "maximum performance" and windows is set to "High performance" as well with Windows Aero turned off. I even tried "AllowD3D11=True", but that only worked a little bit. I even clean and defrag my PC weekly. I even disabled the black outlining in the game and that barely worked. I'm trying to maintain a good 60fps and or higher without drops and so far throughout the time i have played this game, it hasn't worked. Is there anything else i can do?

Physx on HIGH during heavy combat is still too demanding on the CPU & single-thread dependant. Yes, hardware physx runs on the GPU, but it still need the CPU to feed it.

Best work around is to reduce the particle count allowed. Default is set to unlimited which can go crazy on heavy fights with multiple players.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/3xmzs2/hardware_for_60fps_with_physx_on_high/cy85c8b

 

[shadows1234]

Cooler Master Elite 430

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AMD FX-8350 8-Core Black Edition

Samsung SH-224DB / BEBE DVD/CD Writer

Cooler Master JetFlo 95.0 CFM 120mm Red

XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

MSI 970A-G46


I have the GOTY edition. I drop in areas like Overlook, the fountain in Sanctuary, and in high combat. I play with everything maxed except for Foliage, Ambient Occlusion, and Draw Distance at high (lower makes no difference). I also play with PhysX at low since that's sadly unoptimized despite how good it makes the game look, and with smoothed 22-62 fps with a 60Hz monitor at 1920x1080. I shouldn't be getting frame drops in this game and i've already tried turning off Dynamic Shadows, bSmoothedFramerate, Distortion off, and more. It just doesn't make a difference much.

I have my Nvidia control panel settings set to "maximum performance" and windows is set to "High performance" as well with Windows Aero turned off. I even tried "AllowD3D11=True", but that only worked a little bit. I even clean and defrag my PC weekly. I even disabled the black outlining in the game and that barely worked. I'm trying to maintain a good 60fps and or higher without drops and so far throughout the time i have played this game, it hasn't worked. Is there anything else i can do?

Physx on HIGH during heavy combat is still too demanding on the CPU & single-thread dependant. Yes, hardware physx runs on the GPU, but it still need the CPU to feed it.

Best work around is to reduce the particle count allowed. Default is set to unlimited which can go crazy on heavy fights with multiple players.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/3xmzs2/hardware_for_60fps_with_physx_on_high/cy85c8b

Hello i suggest looking at the date of the last post, while it might help i believe the op has fixed their problem by now.

 

[theclark92]

I have the same exact specs as you (AMD FX-8350, Zotac GeForce 970).

I am also experiencing terrible frame rate with Borderlands pre sequel.

Did you ever find a solution to your frame rate problems? I am looking all over the internet for anything I can try to fix it.

Please let me know!

 

[king3pj]

I have the same exact specs as you (AMD FX-8350, Zotac GeForce 970).

I am also experiencing terrible frame rate with Borderlands pre sequel.

Did you ever find a solution to your frame rate problems? I am looking all over the internet for anything I can try to fix it.

Please let me know!

Turn the Physx down. That is the only demanding thing about the Borderlands games.