First we examine the general gameplay, audio, keyboard mouse and controller sections of the options. Borderlands 2 overhaul guide get the most out of the game. Nvidia users with low framerates might want to try switching it off as well. Note, that particle physx is higher quality on high than on medium, so even with the same values. Borderlands 2 from gearbox software, first title with gpu physx title of year 2012, has occupied the hearts and minds of many pc gamers the last week update. Yeah, according to borderlands 2 tweak guide ambient occlusion can take away as much as 10fps whilst being a subtle effect.
Wild hunt, warframe, killing floor 2, fallout 4, batman. What ultimately happened was that nvidia didnt care enough, and gearbox couldnt fix it. When i went from 1 gtx 580 running the game and my other 580 dedicated to physx, i was almost always over 100fps. To access the full suite of ingame settings, launch borderlands 2 or borderlands. Im sure its been mentioned a few times but i want to share a link to an excellent guide on how to tweak borderlands 2 and borderlands tps to look better. Borderlands 2 physx id also try setting the framerate option to smoothed 2262. Its by no means gamebreaking, but i think the game looks phenomenal at peak performance and i want to keep it that way. Apparently the cpu has to deal with the physx effects, as they are a nvidia proprietary tech and the amd card. This is a preapocalypse greek tragedy to borderlands 2 postmortem of the borderlands 1 world. Borderlands 2 physx effects are a sight to behold video.
This is the only way to receive all available dlcs as a package as the goty release of borderlands 2 only includes a subset of all released dlcs for the game. Honestly, i think almost anyone with an nvidia gpu would benefit. Heres borderlands 2 running on maximum settings, with physx. Borderlands 2 benchmarked on various laptop graphics cards. The video options are covered in detail later in this guide. In the case of borderlands 2 the amd cards run extremely well with and without physx enabled. Aug 14, 2012 well they showed 2 gameplay footage, 1 with physx enabled and the other not enabled, to get best possible experience would to have a physx card installed. Dec 17, 20 performance talk with tweaks for borderlands 2 physx aimed at amd fx series processors it will improve performance on any system when using physx. Possible fix borderlands 2 pre s nvidia geforce forums. The guide is mostly for people that have more powerful pcs but if you know a thing or two about ini tweaking, you can set the parameters. Additionally, thanks to a mod, most radeon owners will be able to enjoy borderlands 2 in all its glory with physx enabled.
Finally, make sure all file extensions can be seen. Borderlands 2 was another topic of discussion with them. Im suspecting they could be altered, though, by someone who knew what they were doing either globally or on a pergame basis. Open your nvidia control panel, then go to the physx tab, ensure that you select your gpu as the physx. Open your nvidia control panel, then go to the physx tab, ensure that you select your gpu as the physx processor, not the cpu or auto. Okay, it may even be pretentious of me, but the game is not using 100% of the resources of my computer and even so there are many fps drops, in the middle configurations the game gets a rate of 4250 fps, but using 70% of both cpu and gpu, does not pass this even overclocking, the only way to achieve 60fps in game is with the minimum resolution, because with the current 1920x1080 it even. Discussion in videocards nvidia geforce drivers section started by calintm, aug 5, 20.
If youre on vista or 7, press alt inside a browsing window, then go to the tools menu. Monster hunter worlds first simultaneous update adds 2 bosses. Borderlands 2 pcgamingwiki pcgw bugs, fixes, crashes. Despite its age, borderlands 2 still holds its own graphically thanks to an timeless comic art style. Here are tweaks ive come across and created that might help people with deconsolizing borderlands. Ive been recently playing borderlands 1 free to play on steam till sunday and found this collection of tweaks. Its worth mentioning that borderlands 2 is a the way its meant to be played title, supporting many nvidia features such as physx and 3d vision. Possible fix borderlands 2 pre sequel gtx 970 physx nvidia. Ive got it on my windows 7 bootcamp and get fairly decent fps on my i7 2011 imac with the 6970m 1gb.
Sep 23, 2012 im having extreme lagging problems when i turn on this plug in on borderlands 2. In borderlands 2 with the problems ive had it runs so smooth except for high density physx scenes, especially 4 player coop so you shouldnt be getting those horrible framerates, even with one of those cards. Borderlands 2 terrible stutter problem page 2 the 47. Dont waste time sketching borderlands 2 physx bug you could be borderlands 2 physx bug. Basically, they stated either run a dedicated physx card and still get the fps drops ill get 15 fps sometimes or dont run it at all. For borderlands 2 on the pc, a gamefaqs message board topic titled anyone figureout any useful tweaks for i yet. Borderlands 2 reborn save, polygon thinks borderlands 3 looks terrible, borderlands 2 classes and abilities, borderlands 3 wikia tyreen, borderlands 3 discount code for ps4. Physx is an opensource realtime physics engine middleware sdk developed by nvidia as a. A general indication of borderlands 2 physx performance.
But there are some fps drops in scenes with heavy physics. I write useful posts about pc tweaks, graphics, and game design. Dec 04, 2015 many people have issues with performance of the game with physx enabled, even with sli configs and separate gpu dedicated to physx. Whether its the littered newspapers that gracefully catch the wind under batmans feet in the arkham games, chunks of wall crumbling under gunfire in metro. Introduction hey reddit, i understand not everyone here has borderlands 2tps but something needs to be done about the performance of physx in borderlands 2tps and thats what my goal is. There are lots of physx apex cvars in the borderlands 2. This is quick 8min solo run i have no friends, foreveralone. I actually had a dialogue with gearbox, the developer of this game, and nvidia regarding physx issues years ago when borderlands 2 just came out. Borderlands2 submitted 11 months ago by resynk i have a gtx 1080 and whenever i tried to play borderlands 2 on anything above physx low it would freeze. I know that the nvidia graphics driver package comes with physx, although i was getting 1520 fps in borderlands 2 and presequel when i had physx enabled. Discussion i found a fix for slow physx freezing physx borderlands 2 self. Oct 23, 2012 how to fix borderlands 2 s pc performancekilling dlc bug. Can also add that with a 2way sli setup here on gtx 980, i just need to do one thing to stop the fps drops to 20fps in huge combat, physx0 in willowengine.
How to fix borderlands 2s pc performancekilling dlc bug. Restarting is only necessary when the physx level is modified. Of course, i wouldnt go enabling it on like, a 4xxx series amd or anything, but play around with it, chances are most people can at lest run it on medium if you can already max the other settings. Last light, or the technicolor mayhem of a singularity grenade in borderlands 2, physx can add a great deal of dynamism to a game.
A lot of people dont seem to know that physx can be run on your processor even if you own an amd card. With this tweak, you can manually adjust particles. Borderlands 2 tweaker at borderlands 2 nexus mods and. The handsome collection includes both borderlands 2 and borderlands. Borderlands 2 really only uses 1 2 cores, but with physx on medium the other 4 cores all get moderate usage 50%. Lords of the fallen pc, how to disable physx and uncap framerate. Mafia ii physx apex clothing performance tweak guide.
Do radeons handle physx better than nvidia for borderlands. Aug 21, 2019 mafia 2 strangely drains all the power of the video card when apex physx effects are set on medium or high. Do you have physx set to higher than low in your video settings. Below, we detail the effects youll gain and lose when switching from high, to medium, to low. There is currently only one with me running borderlands 2, but i will add a few. Borderlands 2 tweaker at borderlands 2 nexus mods and community. Borderlands 2 from gearbox software, first title with gpu physx title of year 2012, has occupied the hearts and minds of many pc gamers the last week. Borderlands2 already took advantage of physx effects for effects including particles and cloth. I dont know what you did, but i honestly cannot see how you could get borderlands 2 to run without any physx files at all given that my experience with a hybrid arrangement amd doing the gpu rendering, nvidia doing hardware physx is that fiddling around with the physx files is more likely than not to prevent the game from running. It does give bl2 a distinct style, but in my own opinion it does not really affect the look of the game that much because much of the cell shaded and cartoony style graphics are baked into the textures. Fyi, the only tweak that doesnt work on borderlands 2 is physxlevel3 for borderlands 2, a physxlevel of 0 is low, 1 is medium and 2 is high. Simple ini tweak and there you go, physx on any card.
Many of us here at kotaku are fans of borderlands 2 s first downloadable content, captain scarlett and her pirates. Even the high end pc users with great video cards face annoying fps drops and lags while. If you want to unlock the framerate cap of 60 youll need a pretty hefty. Possible fix borderlands 2 pre sequel gtx 970 physx. Gearbox has put together a pretty robust pc version of borderlands 2, complete with a ton of adjustable options in its menus that mean you wont have to go digging through config files just to make the game play the way you want of course, you can still go through the config files and make the play better, should you so desire weve scoured the internet and poured through borderlands 2. Visually, reducing settings will mostly affect textures and distant objects geometry as long as you dont turn off the postprocessing effects. Pieces will land on inclines and roll towards a level surface as in real life, and should another piece be in the way the two will collide, further changing their final position. Does anyone else running borderlands 2 on an amd imac play with physx enabled. Borderlands 2 tweak guide by koroush ghazi borderlands. Anyone knows some kind of tweaks to disable some physx simulations, like cloth simulations, or.
If yes, try setting it to low as you might have a large performance hit due to the fact that the physx would be cpubound if you have an amd gpu. In borderlands 2, with hardwareaccelerated physx effects enabled, this debris will be kicked about by further weapons fire, or from characters running through it. Borderlands 2 settings reset this might not have to do with the shield but, last night i was playing borderlands 2 with physx on low, so i switched it to high and then it prompted me to restart borderland 2 for the changes to take effect. Borderlands 2 on 780ti low performan nvidia geforce forums. May 08, 2018 hello, ive got a decent rig, but ive got low fps in borderlands 2 steam version only tried with just one other game, shadow of mordor, and got no problems. Nvidia borderlands 2 tweak guide online anandtech forums. Fyi, this is not hybrid physx where there is an nvidia card installed.
If the physx works well on radeons then i would pick up this game. There are not many options available right now since i only added what i found most useful. Borderlands 2 physx performance talk and tweaks youtube. I know a lot of people didnt like the game for the gameplay or are more into the lootingfarming aspects of the games but saying that the writing, in this specific game is terrible just sounds crazy to me. High physx in borderlands looks awesome, and i can use it with acceptable fps on my intel 6core cpu. For tweak 1, we will be removing the black outline that borderlands 2 puts on every object. So why might this one little plug in be giving me such a hard time. Borderlands 2 pc tweaks for graphics and performance. The higher the value, the more particles are allowed ingame. Enable physx on amdati cards borderlands 2 message. Borderlands 2 physx in bootcamp on amd cards macrumors. The presequel tweaks irrespective of which category you fall into, youre here to look at certain tweaks that can bring the best experience out of borderlands 2.
Performances will drop significantly, but you can enable high physx running the game with an intel or amd gpu and get all the eyecandy. Various devices like ios and other os can all be protected with various webroot antivirus products. Note, that particle physx is higher quality on high than on medium, so even with the same values set, high will require more power than medium. Apparently the cpu has to deal with the physx effects, as they are. Heres borderlands 2 running on maximum settings, with physx enabled. Jun 03, 20 does anyone else running borderlands 2 on an amd imac play with physx enabled.
If youre on xp, open a file browsing window and go to the tools menu. Sdk was provided to developers for free for both commercial and noncommercial use on windows, linux, macos, ios and android platforms. The techspot article discusses a game tweak that pushes physx processing to a cpu core. Physx low standart cpu physics, exactly as on consoles. Borderlands 2 benchmarks and performance analysis borderlands 2 succeeds at building on the foundation laid three years ago, delivering new characters, more. I tested the effect of a dedicated physx card on both an sli system two gtx titans. Heres the list of stuff you can change in this config. Borderlands 2 pc tweaks for graphics and performance n4g. Also going from ultra high to high or medium on view distance can give you 10 more fps in many scenarios. It was first introduced in mafia ii in august 2010. Is the game bottlenecking like this for anyone else. I found a fix for slow physx freezing physx borderlands 2.
How to disable physx completely borderlands 2 message. This video showcases extra physical effects in borderlands 2 title and difference between maximum and minimum physx settings. If you set it to medium or max settings it will be calculate heavy physics on cpu,if you have amd gpu. I have spent the last 4 weeks doing a ton of research into the way physx works and the cpugp. My specs are fine i can run skyrim on overrided ultra graphics and 150 plug insmods with absolutely no lag whatsoever. The presequel actually has a 3 value available for a very high physx setting, but its not available in borderlands 2.
We even made a specific tool to find issues with physx in the game and sent it to nvidia for further testing. The presequel released in 2018 contains all available dlcs for the two included games. Borderlands 2 launched on pc today and like every other time, those who couldnt resist the temptation to play it on the first day, are experiencing several technical issues related to the game. This used to be a huge problem for bl2, but i think nvidia fixed the compatability issues physx was having with the game or maybe gbx did, so. Borderlands 2 fps drop i know, this has probably been posted a million times when the game came out and i know to turn physx to low off. Sep 30, 2012 i posted this in another thread about bl2 physx, but just going to copypaste it here too. Whenever i install a new game, it takes some time to find all the essential tweaks necessary to run the game flawlessly.
Nvidia has released a new video showing the physx effects in borderlands 2, and we have to say, its quite impressive. Im guessing youd need at least a quadcore to run cpu physx decently. Performance talk with tweaks for borderlands 2 physx aimed at amd fx series processors it will improve performance on any system when. And i bet they could of done better than they have done for the none physx version. The game will be bundled with geforce 660ti cards as the image below shows. Only use physx on low unless you have a beast of a computer, and even then you would get frame drops i was under the impression that i had a pretty beastly system. Also, i am pretty sure other physx games batman, cryostasis, mafia 2 could not use physx at all with radeons. These are the tweaks i applied to the steam version of borderlands 2. Jan 07, 2020 borderlands 2 launched on pc today and like every other time, those who couldnt resist the temptation to play it on the first day, are experiencing several technical issues related to the game. Apr 17, 20 the higher the value, the more particles are allowed ingame. View borderlands 2s beautiful alien landscape, borderlands. The presequel, press esc to go to the main menu and select options. If physx high is too taxing for your system, switch down to medium.
I went to nvidias website and downloaded the standalone physx driver just because there was a chance. Lifesaving performance tweaks must read borderlands. Borderlands 2 physx in bootcamp on amd cards macrumors forums. Even when i turn everything else on lowoff with the physx high, i will still get extreme unbearable lag. If you want somethings else added leave it in the comments and ill see what i can do. I have physx set to low and it doesnt seem to have changed at all.
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