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Borderlands

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Borderlands
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Developers
Gearbox Software
Publishers
Windows 2K Games
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 26, 2009
macOS (OS X) December 3, 2010
Borderlands on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Multiplayer for the Steam version has been transitioned to Steamworks as of September 15, 2014.[1]

General information

Borderlands Wiki
Gearbox Forums - BL PC and Mac Technical Support
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
DRM: SecuROM DFA online activation. Retail product keys of the GOTY Edition can activate DLC on Steam
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Steam
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All product keys activate on Steam; retail versions can be activated using the Borderlands Granting Tool under Tools in the Steam client.[2]

Version differences

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is a complete edition with all DLC.
DLC cannot be mixed and matched between Steam and non-Steam versions.[3] DLC from other sources can however be activated on Steam.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
Windows
Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
Windows
The Secret Army of General Knoxx
Windows
Claptrap's Robot Revolution
Windows

Essential improvements

Borderlands Config Tool

Borderlands Config Tool unlocks a number of settings not available in the in-game menu.

Borderlands Config Tool tool allows you to do the following and more:[4]

  • Disable Startup Movies
  • Disable story introduction movies
  • Disable mouse smoothing
  • Disable in-game voice chat
  • Windowed mode
  • V-sync
  • Change FOV
  • Increase Difficulty (LAN only)

NOTE: Make sure to run the game and change a keybind in the options at least once before running the tool. This will create the necessary .ini files and should fix options being disabled in the tool.

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Instructions

Split Screen

There is a helpful guide to getting split screen working here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2455302

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Borderlands video settings menu.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Instructions

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Instructions

Input settings

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Mouse acceleration

Instructions

Enable scroll wheel in text boxes

Instructions

Turning on Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 controller UI

  • Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\WillowGame.ini
  • Change FakePlatform= to one of the following:
Value Effect
-1 disabled/auto
0 PC
1 Xbox 360
2 PlayStation 3
You'll also notice in the main menu "Online Game" and "LAN Game" will change to "Xbox LIVE" and "System Link"
The loading tips and training tooltips will still show keyboard bindings

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Spanish
German
Italian
Turkish
Polish

Turkish

A Turkish fan patch is available here. Note that this patch requires at least game version 1.41, and DLCs are not included.


Polish

A Polish patch is available here. Note that this patch requires at least game version 1.41, and DLCs are not included.

Network

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Add the target IP and port as a command line argument.[5]

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 7777, 28900, 28902, 28910
UDP 7777, 27900, 28902
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Activating DLC

Instructions

General Protection Fault / R6025 runtime error

Instructions

Fixing Performance Issues

Instructions

Progress Not Being Saved

Instructions

Some weapon stats are not visible

Instructions

Game freezes in Lockdown Palace (General Knoxx DLC)

Instructions

Issues unresolved

Crashes on Startup (Windows XP)

Some users, after having installed and successfully played the game on Windows XP, experience a standard "Borderlands has encountered an error and needs to close" message after some time. There are no known solutions for this problem.

Other information

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz P4
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI HD3000 series
NVIDIA 7 series

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8980/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (8980) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References