Gearbox Publishing has revealed the PC hardware specifications for Borderlands 4, set to launch on September 12, detailing both minimum and recommended configurations for solid performance across various PC setups.
According to Gearbox, the minimum hardware requirements will enable the game to run smoothly on older PCs, while the recommended specifications are designed to deliver high performance and detailed graphics as envisioned by the studio.
The minimum PC hardware requirements include a 64-bit processor and operating system, an SSD, Windows 10 or 11, an Intel Core i7-9700 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processor, 16 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, or Intel Arc A580 graphics card with 8 GB VRAM. The game also requires 8 CPU cores and 100 GB of available storage space.
In contrast, the recommended PC hardware requirements specify an Intel Core i7-12700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor, 32 GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, or Intel Arc B580 graphics card. Other requirements include a 64-bit processor and operating system, an SSD, Windows 10 or 11, and 100 GB of available storage space.
Borderlands 4 offers a comprehensive suite of graphics settings, allowing players to customize their visual experience. The basic graphics settings include options for display mode, resolution, display stats, frame rate limiting, vertical sync, and field of view. Advanced settings provide further customization options, including graphics preset, anti-aliasing, resolution scaling, upscaling method, and various quality settings for scene capture, frame generation, and NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency.
Environment graphics settings enable players to adjust HLOD loading range, geometry quality, texture quality, textures streaming speed, anisotropic filtering quality, foliage density, volumetric fog, volumetric cloud, shadow quality, directional shadow quality, volumetric cloud shadows, lighting quality, reflections quality, and shading quality. Post-processing graphics settings allow for adjustments to post-process quality, motion blur amount, and motion blur quality.
Gearbox has also detailed the accessibility features in Borderlands 4, aimed at providing an inclusive gaming experience. Subtitle options include show subtitles, subtitle text size, force bold text, subtitle color, subtitle background, and subtitle background opacity. Speaker identity options allow players to toggle speaker identify and select speaker identify color.
Audio and visual accessibility features include menu text scaling, damage numbers, and force mono. Mix presets offer various options, such as bass reduction, ear fatigue reduction, hyperacusis relief, misophonia relief, sensory comfort, tinnitus relief general, tinnitus relief targeted, and 80 Hz notch. Color presets cater to different types of color vision deficiency, including default, green/red, red/green, and blue/yellow options. Additional accessibility options include high contrast HUD, high contrast reticle, and reticle color options for friendly, enemy, and neutral reticles.
Gameplay accessibility features comprise map zoom speed, enable vibration, enable adaptive triggers, screen shake intensity, toggle crouch, toggle sprint, enable dash, camera head-bob, grapple view tilt, and mantle with forward. Difficulty settings allow players to choose from easy, normal, and hard modes, with the difficulty scaling individually in co-op parties.
Additional accessibility options include auto-saving at checkpoints and key moments, full keyboard and controller remapping, and various audio controls. Audio presets offer hi-fi, balanced, compressed, quiet time, colorful realism, and voice focus options. Music trim options, sound effects trim options, and dialog controls provide further customization.
Borderlands 4 is set to offer a highly customizable experience in terms of graphical fidelity and accessibility when it launches on September 12.
