You won't need expensive PC hardware for Borderlands 3

Gearbox has revealed the hardware requirements for the Borderlands 3 and pleasantly surprised us by listing the recommended configuration in 1440p resolution.

The visual style of Borderlands has never been particularly complex, allowing previous games to run on PC toasters as well. Borderlands 3 will be more demanding than the previous parts, but for today's terms it will not look for wicked hardware. In fact, we're sure many PC players will be able to run the game in 4K resolution as well, provided they have a proper monitor.


At a minimum, you will need 1080p for six-year-old hardware and 75 gigabytes of disk space. The recommended configuration is for 1440p or 2K gaming. Convenient, since the game is released by 2K Games. Here are these configurations:

Minimal chaotic 1080p configuration:

• CPU: AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570
• GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB
• RAM: 6 GB
• HDD: 75 GB

Recommended chaotic 1440p configuration:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel i7-4770
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 590 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
• RAM: 16 GB
• HDD: 75 GB

In addition to the configurations themselves, Gearbox was so good as to share with us all graphics related settings in the PC version of Borderlands 3. The good news is that we will be able to change anything and everything - interface size, FOV separately for character and vehicle, motion blur for objects and camera, and a built-in FPS meter and statistics indicator for the CPU and GPU will also be useful.

Here are all the settings in Borderlands 3:

BASIC

General

Graphics API: DirectX 11, DirectX 12
Display: (varies by setup)
Display Mode: Full Screen, Windowed Borderless, Windowed
Resolution: (varies by setup)
Vertical Sync: Off, On
Resolution Scale: 50% - 200% and 25% increments
Frame Rate Limit: Smooth 22-62 FPS, Capped 30 FPS, Capped 50 FPS, Capped 60 FPS, Capped 72 FPS, Capped 120 FPS, Unlimited, Custom
Custom FPS Limit: default 90, minimum 15, maximum 300
Calibrate Display: Brightness and HDR
Calibrate Safe Area: Adjust the boundary of the UI
Field of View: default 90, minimum 70, maximum 110
Vehicle Field of View: default 90, minimum 70, maximum 110
HUD Scale: default 1, minimum 0.6, maximum 1.3

ADVANCED

Preferences

Display Stats: Off, FPS, All (FPS, CPU, GPU)
Anti Aliasing: None, FXAA, Temporal
FidelityFX Sharpening: Off, On
Camera Motion Blur: Off, On
Object Motion Blur: Off, On

General

Graphics Quality: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Texture Streaming: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Anisotropic Filtering: 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x
Material Quality: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Shadows: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Draw Distance: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Environment Texture Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Environment Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Terrain Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Foliage Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Character Texture Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Character Detail: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Ambient Occlusion: Low, Medium, High, Ultra
Volumetric Fog: Off, Medium, High, Ultra

Screen Space Reflections: Off, Medium, High, Ultra