Borderlands

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Borderlands
Borderlands	2009
Borderlands 2	2012
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	2014
Tales from the Borderlands (series)
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced	2019
Borderlands 3	2019
Borderlands 2 VR	2019
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure	2021
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands	2022

Key points

There are several potential issues a user can run into when playing Borderlands, ranging from performance issues to annoyances such as unskippable intros and low field of view.

General information

Gearbox Forums - BL PC and Mac Technical Support

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

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Game of the Year Edition

The most complete version is Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition which contains the base game and all of the expansions. In order of release, the expansions are:

The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Claptrap's New Robot Revolution

Downloadable content (DLC)

DLC cannot be mixed and matched between Steam and non-Steam versions.^[1]

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:^[2]

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.

Disabling Intro Movies

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)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8980/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-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

Turning on 360/PlayStation 3 controller UI

Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\WillowGame.ini
Find the line FakePlatform=-1 with CTRL+F
Change the -1 to 1 for Xbox 360 UI

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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Issues fixed

Quest Bugs

Instructions

Activating DLC

Instructions

General Protection Fault / R6025 runtime error

Instructions

Fixing Performance Issues

Instructions

Progress Not Being Saved

Instructions

Can't Log Into GameSpy

Instructions

Issuess 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. No known solutions for this problem are known, but the matter is currently being investigated.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	2.4 GHz P4	2.4 GHz Dual-core
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI HD3000 series or NVIDIA 7 series	ATI HD 4000 series or Nvidia 9 series

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8980/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (8980) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8980/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (8980) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8980/.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (8980) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] ttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1403585

[2] PC Utility Borderlands Configuration Tool - The Gearbox Software Forums

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Developers
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	Gearbox Software
Publishers
	2K Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	October 26, 2009