Borderlands 4 Steam Deck Performance NEW Major Update: Is it Playable?

Borderlands 4 Steam Deck SteamOS Performance January 2026 Patch Update: Gameplay Settings Tested SteamOS 3.7 – Full Game Version – Lossless Scaling Bonus Test

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🛠️ Patch Notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1285190/view/511855849001451884

December 2025 Patch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyeepDKA6_U
January 2026 Patch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9pf0h4c64

🎮 Steam Deck OLED
🕐 31st January 2025 Game Test
⚙️ SteamOS 3.7.17 Stable
🛠️ Installed to Internal Drive
📊 New Clean Installation
📀 Steam Version

NOTES: Borderlands 4 now includes 2 New Graphics Presets: Performance and Quality Mode, which aren’t mentioned in the patch notes.

After testing the update, performance has improved with these presets, although more work needs to be done to make it more stable on Steam Deck. Other more powerful handhelds on SteamOS will likely benefit a lot from this update.

The developers have promised further performance optimization patches to come in the future.

Unlocked Settings – If you would like to unlock the graphics menu to adjust settings, we need to set our launch options to: SteamDeck=0 %command%

⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 – Performance Mode Preset
01:25 – Settings Menu
01:40 – Quality Mode Preset
03:00 – Performance Mode 2X FPS Lossless Scaling
05:33 – Unlocked Settings Menu
05:52 – Lowest FSR 3.1 Performance
06:51 – FSR 3.1 Ultra Performance
08:04 – FSR 3.1 Performance 2X FPS Lossless Scaling
09:35 – TSR Performance
11:13 – XeSS Performance

Steam – https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285190/Borderlands_4/

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