7 Ways to Fix Regular In-Game Borderlands 4 Crashing on a Windows PC

Many players have reported frequent in-game Borderlands 4 crashing on Windows PC. For example, this is what one B4 player said in a Steam forum post: “No matter what I do, the game [Borderlands 4] eventually crashes. In the past hour, I’ve tried playing about 20 times, and it crashes after a few seconds, sometimes in the main menu, sometimes right after loading a save.” This is how you can fix regular in-game Borderlands 4 crashing on a Windows PC.

Turn Off Hardware Acceleration

Disabling hardware acceleration in Windows can resolve driver incompatibilities or hardware issues causing Borderlands 4 to crash. A few players also confirm they’ve fixed Borderlands 4 crashing by turning off hardware acceleration. You can turn off hardware acceleration like this:

1. Press the Windows keyboard key + S to bring up your search tool.
2. Enter graphics settings in the search box and click the matching result.
3. Click Advanced graphics settings to expand.
4. Turn off the Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling option.

The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling option

Clear Temp Files and Delete NVIDIA Cache Folders

Clearing temp files and erasing the NVIDIA cache folder is a more widely confirmed way to fix in-game Borderlands 4 crashing. Applying this possible fix forces a shader recompilation for the game and can clear corrupted data. Try clearing temporary files and erasing NVIDIA cache folders like this:

1. Open the C: > Windows > Temp folder in File Explorer.
2. Select everything in that folder using the Ctrl + A hotkey.
3. Right-click and select Delete to erase everything in the temp data folder.
   
   

   The Temp folder

4. Next, open the C: > Windows > Prefetch folder.
5. Erase everything in the Prefetch directory as you did for the temp folder.
6. Then, delete these NVIDIA cache folders at the following directory paths:

   C:\Users\[user folder name]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCache
   C:\Users\[user folder name]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\GLCache
   C:\Users\[user folder name]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\ComputeCache
   C:\Users\[user folder name]\AppData\Local\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache
   C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache

7. For a final step, flush the DNS cache. To do so, open the search tool by clicking its button or box on the taskbar.
8. Enter cmd within the search tool, and right-click the Command Prompt app to select Run as administrator.
9. Then enter ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter to run it.

The flush DNS cache command

If you can’t find some of the folders specified above, try selecting the Show hidden items option in File Explorer. To do so, click the See more (…) button and select Options. Then, select Show hidden files, folders, and drives on the View tab.

Disable RAM Expo

Some players confirm they’ve fixed regular in-game Borderlands 4 crashing by disabling Expo for their RAM. Expo is an extended overclocking profile for AMD GPUs. To disable RAM Expo, you will need to go into BIOS settings. This MAINGEAR support page provides a good overview of how to disable RAM Expo on MSI, ASUS, and ASRock motherboards.

Verify Borderlands 4 Game Files

Verification file scanning is a common troubleshooting method for game crashing that 2K Support recommends applying. If you’re a Steam user, you can verify Borderlands 4 as covered on this help page. Alternatively, check out this Epic page for game verification instructions.

The Verify integrity of game files option

Disable Frame Generation

The Frame Generation is known to cause Borderlands 4 to crash on Windows PCs when enabled. For example, one B4 player said this on Reddit, “I am on a 5090.. I had like 10 [Borderlands 4] crashes yesterday.. saw someone say don’t use frame gen… it worked, haven’t crashed since.” You can disable Frame Generation in Borderlands 4:

1. Start your Borderlands 4 game.
2. Open Borderlands 4’s Settings menu.
3. Select the Visuals tab.
4. Click on Advanced.
5. Select Off for the Frame Generation option.

The Frame Generation option

Update the Driver for Your GPU

2K Support also recommends players update graphical drivers for the Borderlands 4 game. As it’s a relatively new game, Borderlands 4 will more likely be optimized for the latest NVIDIA/AMD driver versions. This guide for updating graphical drivers covers the various methods for applying this potential resolution.

The NVIDIA graphics driver download page

Install the Ultimate Engine Tweaks Mod

Many players also confirm that the Ultimate Engine Tweaks Mod can be an effective remedy for Borderlands 4 crashing. That mod optimizes Borderlands 4’s game engine settings for better stability and performance. You can download that mod from this Ultimate Engine Tweaks page, which also provides some instructions for installing it.

The Ultimate Engine Tweaks Mod

I hope some of those potential remedies fix the regular in-game Borderlands 4 crashing on your PC. Alas, there isn’t a surefire way to resolve persistent B4 crashing, but the troubleshooting methods above are more widely confirmed to work. You can also ask Borderlands 4’s 2K Support service for more potential remedies from this submit a request page.

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