Borderlands 2 low FPS

[Noveria]

I have both a copy of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands The Pre-Sequel installed, however Borderlands 2 gets significantly lower frame rate.

 

I revive approximately a stable 70 fps whilst playing The Pre-Sequel, but with Borderlands 2 barely able to have a stable 30 fps, on exactly the same in game settings?

 

Both are set to High in Task Manager and are defiantly running off my Nvidia GPU and not the Intel one also in my laptop

 

I do not have Nvidia Ge force Experience installed , nor is Nvidia PhysX.

(I uninstalled both to see if it would resolve the issue with no change).

 

My system specs meet recommend and I'm able to play Pre-Sequel comfortably on Max +60fps (minus PhysX)

 

I have tried a clean install of Borderlands 2 as well, as a previous version (no difference)

 

I've deleted the .ini files located in MyDocuments/My Games/Borderlands2 and run the game (wich replaced them) with no change 

 

Tried allocation more memory to Borderlands 2 using one of the .ini files with no change

 

In-Game settings (for both games):

 

Mode: Full Screen

Resolution: 1336x768 (native)

V Sync: Off

Frame rate: Unlimited 

Anisotropic filter: 16x

Bullet Decal: High

Foliage Distance: Far

Texture Quality: High

Game Detail: High

Ambient Occlusion: On

Depth of Field: On

FXAA: Off

View Distance: Ultra High

PhysX Effects: Low

Textue Fade: Off

Colorblind Mode: Off

 

 

System Specs:

 

Laptop: ASUS K53SV

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (347.52) driver

CPU: Intel® Core i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs)

Ram: 4096MB

DirectX: 11

 

 

NVIDIA Control Panel settings:

 

Preferred graphics processor: High-performance NVIDIA processor

Use global setting (High-performance NVIDIA processor)

 

Ambient Occlusion: Quality

Anisotropic filtering: Application-controlled

Antialiasing - FXAA: Off

​Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On

​Antialiasing - Mode: Application-controlled

​Antialiasing - Setting: Application-controlled

​Antialiasing - Transparency: Off

CUDA - GPUs: All

Maximum pre-rendered frames: Use the 3D application setting

Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Multiple display performance mode

Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance

Shader Cache: On

Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample ooptimization: Off

Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow

Texture filtering - Quality: Quality

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On

Threaded optimization: Auto

Triple buffering: Off

Vertical sync: Off

Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1

 

 

Game Versions:

 

Borderlands 2: v1.8.2

Borderlands Pre-Sequel: v1.0.1

 

 

 

 

 

[HmmR]

i think 30+fps is completely stable and varies only 1 or 2 fps then its good

its better to have 30fps which is stable that 60 fps which is not stable 

 

there is nothing wrong with the settings i think the game is not optimized for phyx

[Noveria]

i think 30+fps is completely stable and varies only 1 or 2 fps then its good

its better to have 30fps which is stable that 60 fps which is not stable 

 

there is nothing wrong with the settings i think the game is not optimized for phyx

 

i have a 60hz screen and should be able to run at +60 fps with my current settings and specs. Im not really ok with the 30fps it runs at, at the moment if i should be able to reach 60+. Like with The Pre-Sequel

[HmmR]

PhysX Effects: Low (high)

View Distance: Ultra High (just high)

Frame rate: Unlimited (cAP AT 60 fps)

this should help u push the frame rates to atleast 45+

[cesrai]

i think 30+fps is completely stable and varies only 1 or 2 fps then its good

its better to have 30fps which is stable that 60 fps which is not stable 

 

there is nothing wrong with the settings i think the game is not optimized for phyx

U WOT m8 ???? Physx run pretty good in Borderlands.

[Brawhammer]

i have a 60hz screen and should be able to run at +60 fps with my current settings and specs. Im not really ok with the 30fps it runs at, at the moment if i should be able to reach 60+. Like with The Pre-Sequel

 

Does it go up at all? Or go down?

 

What about indoors?

 

Have you tried starting one game then right after starting the next?

 

Have you looked at temps? Thermal throttling maybe?

[Noveria]

Does it go up at all? Or go down?

 

What about indoors?

 

Have you tried starting one game then right after starting the next?

 

Have you looked at temps? Thermal throttling maybe?

 

cpu temp aprox 78C peeking around 83C

gpu temp aprox 68C

 

Pre sequel changes between 65-90fps depending on where / what is going on in the game

 2 between 25-50

 

with simular temps run directly one after the other

[Brawhammer]

cpu temp around 75C

gpu temp around 67C

 

Pre sequel changes between 65-90fps depending on where / what is going on in the game

 2 between 25-50

 

with simular temps run directly one after the other

 

What happens if you turn all the graphics settings to low/off on borderlands 2?

[Noveria]

What happens if you turn all the graphics settings to low/off on borderlands 2?

40-65 fps on minimal settings with 1280x720 resolution

 

with borderlands 2 the fps can drops down to around 10 for a split second or two when in combat but this isn't very frequent

 

i didn't notice as many fps drops on Pre-Sequel it very rarely drops to around 50 and this is only very briefly 

[Noveria]

Ok, so i have found the problem and a solution.

 

The config file 'WillowEngine.ini' that controls all the graphical settings for the game had different values to my Borderlands 2 one.

 

The Pre-Sequel one had things like Dynamic Lighting, bloom, motion blur, fog and lens flares set to false. (off) so the game was in fact not running on the same settings as 2

I have now copied the Pre-Sequel 'WillowEngine.ini' into the Borderlands 2 config files over writing the previous one and now have the expect frame rates.

 

Here is a link to the modified 'WillowEngine.ini' for improved frame rate if anyone is interested:

 

http://www.mediafire.com/view/18fg2220raachcv/WillowEngine.ini

 

Make sure if you use this file that it is set to read only when the game is running!

 

To change in game settings such as view distance or texture quality you must do this every time you launch the game, or find the appropriate settings in the .ini file and edit them manually.

 

To edit it them manually you must close the game, right click, properties, uncheck read only, then open and search within the file. Once done save and remember to make read only again.

 

 

 

Thank you all for your help and suggestions. 

[Brawhammer]

 

Ok, so i have found the problem and a solution.

 

The config file 'WillowEngine.ini' that controls all the graphical settings for the game had different values to my Borderlands 2 one.

 

The Pre-Sequel one had things like Dynamic Lighting, bloom, motion blur, fog and lens flares set to false. (off) so the game was in fact not running on the same settings as 2

I have now copied the Pre-Sequel 'WillowEngine.ini' into the Borderlands 2 config files over writing the previous one and now have the expect frame rates.

 

Here is a link to the modified 'WillowEngine.ini' for improved frame rate if anyone is interested:

 

http://www.mediafire.com/view/18fg2220raachcv/WillowEngine.ini

 

Make sure if you use this file that it is set to read only when the game is running!

 

To change in game settings such as view distance or texture quality you must do this every time you launch the game, or find the appropriate settings in the .ini file and edit them manually.

 

To edit it them manually you must close the game, right click, properties, uncheck read only, then open and search within the file. Once done save and remember to make read only again.

 

 

 

Thank you all for your help and suggestions. 

 

 

Ah that sounds about right, Config file just wasn't saving with your changes.

 

Didn't you notice when it got... shitty?