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How to double FPS in Borderlands!

By Submarine

This extremely simple tweak will literally DOUBLE your Frames Per Second in Borderlands.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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1 Jun, 2013 @ 9:27pm

15 Jul, 2016 @ 2:02pm

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The tweak:

This is the easiest tweak ever, yet its result is astounding.

Simply right click Borderlands in the library, open properties, press Set Launch Options, and type
"-dx9" without the quotes. Launch the game, and you will notice a significant performance boost.

The steam version of borderlands is automatically set to Directx 10 mode, however, 9 is still compatable.

Enjoy!

72 Comments

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Bixiey 11 Aug, 2024 @ 7:40pm

Holy this is old

Quitting UberEats Soon 23 Sep, 2021 @ 7:13pm

I capped the max fps in Nvidia panel to 150fps as well as disabling a few settings, and following your advice, and now it runs better.

Quitting UberEats Soon 21 Sep, 2021 @ 8:34pm

Nevermind that was just main menu, when i started the game the fps was so bad, it was like 90-110fps and then sometimes it would be at 120-140fps and when looking at the ground then it would rise all the way up to 180-260fps wtf

Quitting UberEats Soon 20 Sep, 2021 @ 4:50pm

I uncapped the 62fps lock and I'm getting well over 144fps

GrouchyElijah12 22 Sep, 2020 @ 4:15am

Thanks now my game runs 60fps stable instead of 30fps

Naga the Confused Undead 16 Mar, 2019 @ 1:29pm

gotta love nvidia.

auerx 27 Aug, 2017 @ 8:48am

I think this might have helped! Had the game running at around 40 fps before trying it, with a GPU utilization of below 50%. Now I get a somewhat steady 62 fps. Thanks!

Majesty 30 Jan, 2017 @ 12:12pm

@Derohk search in lowspecgamer borderlands. Lowspecgamer makes videos on boosting fps by going into the files and changing around a few things. I did what was in the video and my fps increased considerbably more than doing this

Derohk 27 Nov, 2016 @ 6:37pm

didnt gain anything sooo yup lol

JaredX7 10 Aug, 2016 @ 4:17am

Borderlands 1 actually does use DirectX 9 by default. The hud from my recording program actually reports DX9, too!

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