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Borderlands 3 is great, you do need to like this genre though. The gameplay isn't really extraordinary, it is the setting that is created with a cartoonish feel to it. The game moved from Unreal Engine 3 to UE4 and that has improved the overall scene quality and performance in terms of lighting, shadows, and effects.
Being an AMD sponsored title we were surprised to see the DX12 issues as much as I did. Yeah, give it a go, if it runs fine on DX12 for you, hey kudos to ya, otherwise enable DX11 and don't look back, please. AMD is offering a bit of extra candy in the form of FidelityFX, the dynamic sharpening filter to draw out detail in low-contrast areas for a sharper gaming experience.
Most modern graphics card will run fine if you give it the right image quality settings. The trick with PC gaming, however, is that image quality is something you want and prefer, as otherwise, you'd be playing on a console. It's a good looking game at high-quality and at ultra quality settings. With any reasonably modern graphics card, very "high quality" settings at up-to 2560x1440 really should not be an issue and the Full HD domain is easy enough for any modern card to ooze out decent framerates. Memory wise anything starting at 4GB is the minimum all saying domain with 6GB recommended and 8 GB the 2019 sweet spot. Aside from a random occasional stutter and some FPS drops the game at DX11 is playable and enjoyable. Ultra HD does look very nice.
AMD has been over the game as a sponsor, and the most recent cards do play very well in terms of framerates. The enthusiast class NVIDIA cards once again dominate. Again, things really start to look better at the high-quality mode and very sweet at ultra settings, and sure either 2560x1440 resolution wise or something above that up-to Ultra HD, serves this game the best. Up-to 2560x1440 the game remains very playable starting with a Radeon Vega 56 or GeForce RTX 2060. At 1920x1080 the vast majority of the game plays with proper framerates though combined with any modern age graphics card. Overall the game offers nice game-play, there is little negative to mention aside from the fact you'll need to like the genre die to the cartoonish character in terms of game render.
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