Ultra HD Pack :: Borderlands 2 General Discussions

Mez Koo

Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:03pm

I'm still not sure what you are talking about Mystic. The handsome collection is already out for everything, PC, PS4, and XBONE. I assume there will be a dlc on each game on each platform that you have to download if you want higher resolution textures. I have no idea about BL1 and I'm not going to try to talk about that. Someone asked for info about the UHD updates and I posted the videos.

#31

My Name Is Mud has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 4:04pm

Originally posted by Vlad:
The Ultra HD Texture Pack on console includes:
4K Ultra HD resolution and HDR for Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro players.
Remastered 4K environment textures, including geometry and skyboxes.
Remastered 4K characters and vehicles.
Updated weapon meshes and textures.
Re-encoded 4K Cinematics.
Improved Anti-Aliasing, including improved edge line implementation.
This includes improved ink line definition and framing/outline around character models.
Higher Resolution Dynamic Shadows.
Improved quality and smoothness of shadows, especially during movement.

Ultra HD Texture Pack for PC features:
Remastered 4K environment textures, including geometry and skyboxes.
Remastered 4K characters and vehicles.
Remastered 4K weapon meshes and textures.
Improved Anti-Aliasing, including improved edge line implementation.
This includes improved ink line definition and framing/outline around character models.
Higher Resolution Dynamic Shadows.
Improved quality and smoothness of shadows, especially during movement.
Improved Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
An improved SSAO method for more realistic ambient lighting.

The texture packs will be released next week on April 3.

That is just awesome

Going to be like playing a new game

#32

Jinx

Mar 28, 2019 @ 7:38pm

Originally posted by HippeusOmega:
Will I be able to make use of the UHD texture pack with a 1080p monitor? I should have the GPU horsepower as I have a GTX 1070 overclocked.

Yeah definitely can use it with a 1070.

Calling it a UHD pack is confusing. It just means higher quality assets. Has nothing to do with UHD screen resolution. You can actually run the games at 4K resolution right now.

#33

Guilty Onyx has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:34pm

Really hope they also touch on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance issues this game has on windows 10 and cards above the 700 series too otherwise they're just adding something to make abysmal performance even more abysmal.

#34

Doom Sayer has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:41pm

Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
Really hope they also touch on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance issues this game has on windows 10 and cards above the 700 series too otherwise they're just adding something to make abysmal performance even more abysmal.

I get like 100+ fps with Physx and everything else on max + reshade.

2700x
16g ram
1660ti

Last edited by Doom Sayer; Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:55pm

#35

Guilty Onyx has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:49pm

Originally posted by Degeneracy:
Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
Really hope they also touch on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance issues this game has on windows 10 and cards above the 700 series too otherwise they're just adding something to make abysmal performance even more abysmal.
I get like 100+ fps with Physx and everything else on max + reshade.

2700x
16g ram
1660ti

1070, 7700K, 16GBs, Win10. PhysX always on low since it's busted, nevertheless I get FPS drops during heavy combat and in certain maps like Opportunity and Thousand Cuts. .

#36

Jinx

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:51pm

Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
Really hope they also touch on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance issues this game has on windows 10 and cards above the 700 series too otherwise they're just adding something to make abysmal performance even more abysmal.

Not sure what you're talking about, this game runs great on everything from my old HD 6870 1GB to my GTX 760 4GB to my GTX 1070. Maybe make sure you have PhysX disabled? Even on a higher end Nvidia card it can cause some framerate issues in busy fights. It was kind of tacked on and never very optimized.

That said most of these changes won't affect performance much at all, especially not on a modern graphics card. As long as you have enough vram the high quality textures don't really hit the framerate at all.

#37

Jinx

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:55pm

Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
1070, 7700K, 16GBs, Win10. PhysX always on low since it's busted, nevertheless I get FPS drops during heavy combat and in certain maps like Opportunity and Thousand Cuts. .

Huh, I haven't played it too extensively on 10 or my 1070 so I guess that's possible. I remember getting some stutter in one spot but that was at 4K with everything maxed and PhysX on.

Actually, that's another thing, if you're playing on higher than 1080p some older games don't scale up properly. It's like certain things are tied to resolution and scale exponentially up more than they need to (ambient occlusion is a killer in some games). Like in Saints Row 3 at 4K I needed to turn lighting detail down to medium. There was no clear difference in quality, but the game ran better (locked 60fps) in demanding spots like downtown.

#38

Doom Sayer has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:58pm

Originally posted by Jinx:
Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
1070, 7700K, 16GBs, Win10. PhysX always on low since it's busted, nevertheless I get FPS drops during heavy combat and in certain maps like Opportunity and Thousand Cuts. .
Huh, I haven't played it too extensively on 10 or my 1070 so I guess that's possible. I remember getting some stutter in one spot but that was at 4K with everything maxed and PhysX on.

Actually, that's another thing, if you're playing on higher than 1080p some older games don't scale up properly. It's like certain things are tied to resolution and scale exponentially up more than they need to (ambient occlusion is a killer in some games). Like in Saints Row 3 at 4K I needed to turn lighting detail down to medium. There was no clear difference in quality, but the game ran better (locked 60fps) in demanding spots like downtown.

Part of the problem is some engine devs don't think very far ahead.

#39

Guilty Onyx has Borderlands 2

Mar 28, 2019 @ 8:58pm

Originally posted by Jinx:
Originally posted by 「ThatNekoKid」:
1070, 7700K, 16GBs, Win10. PhysX always on low since it's busted, nevertheless I get FPS drops during heavy combat and in certain maps like Opportunity and Thousand Cuts. .
Huh, I haven't played it too extensively on 10 or my 1070 so I guess that's possible. I remember getting some stutter in one spot but that was at 4K with everything maxed and PhysX on.

Actually, that's another thing, if you're playing on higher than 1080p some older games don't scale up properly. It's like certain things are tied to resolution and scale exponentially up more than they need to (ambient occlusion is a killer in some games). Like in Saints Row 3 at 4K I needed to turn lighting detail down to medium. There was no clear difference in quality, but the game ran better (locked 60fps) in demanding spots like downtown.

I know for a fact it's not PhysX since I've always had it set to low since the get-go and even gone out of my way to delete drivers for it just in case. Also for reference I have everything set to max at 1080p (minus PhysX obv). Take the mission in Opportunity where Moxxi has you blow up Jack's construction site and the little side off section where you cross the bridge to get the bombs, if I do a 360 there and just look back across the bridge into the distant map I drop to 20-30fps. Originally I shrugged it off thinking maybe it was something buggy with their view distance and the ultra high setting so I set it to low, no change. So then I just set everything to low and managed to get it up to 40, which is a slight improvement I guess? Overall though I pin it more on Win10 than my card, iirc the game runs on DX9 which doesn't play nice with 10 and 2K has also listed BL2 as a game not supported for the OS.

Last edited by Guilty Onyx; Mar 28, 2019 @ 9:07pm

#40

Ｌｅｅｓ_ｎｏｍａｄ has Borderlands 2

Mar 29, 2019 @ 3:58am

Originally posted by HippeusOmega:
Will I be able to make use of the UHD texture pack with a 1080p monitor? I should have the GPU horsepower as I have a GTX 1070 overclocked.

Hahah.

Originally posted by Vlad:
Ultra HD Texture Pack for PC features:
Remastered 4K environment textures, including geometry and skyboxes.
Remastered 4K characters and vehicles.
Remastered 4K weapon meshes and textures.
Improved Anti-Aliasing, including improved edge line implementation.
This includes improved ink line definition and framing/outline around character models.
Higher Resolution Dynamic Shadows.
Improved quality and smoothness of shadows, especially during movement.
Improved Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
An improved SSAO method for more realistic ambient lighting.

The texture packs will be released next week on April 3.

AA, HRDS, and SSAO only need, thats cool, the rest is superfluous, and hardly anyone will need it.

Many can not play in 60 frames with Physx enabled, what kind of 4k is there to talk about here. However, if you change the config, which is located here
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\My Games\borderlands 2\willowgame\Config
you can even get 60 frames with maximum graphics on an old Radeon video card, but few people know about it.

Last edited by Ｌｅｅｓ_ｎｏｍａｄ; Mar 29, 2019 @ 4:05am

#41

Zen_Disaster has Borderlands 2

Mar 29, 2019 @ 4:11am

I believe the only game supported in / compatible with Win10 is TPS. That doesn't mean BL1 + BL2 can't be played in Win10 ~ they're just not optimised for it. We'll see next week on 4/3 if the Remaster updates the BL2 graphics for Win10 ~ am guessing that's part of the reason for it https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/206288558-A-Note-About-Windows-10-Compatibility-

Last edited by Zen_Disaster; Mar 29, 2019 @ 4:15am

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