Borderlands 3 runs quite smoothly for the most part but it looks like some players are witnessing few hiccups here and there. It is understandable that not everyone is sitting with a high end gaming PC. In fact, according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey most of the gamers still game on low-medium graphics cards.
But this is the greatest thing about PC gaming. You don’t need overpriced hardware to play games as you can customize the in-game graphics settings of the game you want to play and the get performance you desire from it, even if you have a low end gaming rig. Same is the case with Borderlands 3. Lets see if it is possible to make this game run for people with low end graphics cards by tweaking the in-game video or graphics settings.
Borderlands 3 – Best graphics or video settings
It is always recommended to run a game on a medium end gaming rig if you want to find out the best combination of graphics settings for the game. There is no point in running benchmarks on gaming rigs with high or enthusiast level graphics cards. Because lets be honest, everything will run smoothly on a RTX 2080 ti or a RX 5700 XT.
Though the system requirements of Borderlands 3 are slightly on the higher side, we still went ahead and ran it on a very basic and mediocre gaming PC. Here are the full specifications of our rig:
- CPU : Ryzen 3 1300x
- GPU : RX 470
- RAM : 8GB DDR4 2400mhz
- HDD : 1 TB 7200 rpm
The graphics or display settings we are using here:
Graphics API: DirectX 12 (If you are using Windows 10)
Display Mode: Full Screen
Vertical Sync: Off
Resolution Scale: 100%
Limit Frame Rate: Unlimited
Custom FPS Limit: 300
Field of View: 70
Vehicle Field of View: 75
Display Stats: Off
Anti Aliasing: None
FidelityFX Sharpening: Off
Camera Motion Blur: Off
Object Motion Blur: Off
Graphics Quality: Medium
Texture Streaming: Medium
Anisotropic Filtering: 8x
Material Quality: Medium
Shadows: Low
Draw Distance: Low
Environment Texture Detail: Medium
Environment Detail: Low
Terrain Detail: Medium
Foliage Detail: Medium
Character Texture Detail: Medium
Character Detail: Low
Ambient Occlusion: Medium
Volumetric Fog: Off
Screen Space Reflections: Off
Stable 60 fps is what we were aiming for and we managed to get frame rates close to it. The game was running quite smooth without any sort of lag or stuttering. We were getting constant 50+ fps with drops to 40 at very few instances.
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Last Updated on September 11, 2019
Shoaib, 30, is a simple guy who loves to play video games, and enjoys new cuisines sporadically. He has been gaming since he was 7 years old, and with an experience of 22 years, under his belt, there is not a single AAA game in this world, that he hasn’t played. Despite being a MBA Graduate he decided to follow his passion. And because of his love for gaming, Frondtech came into existence.