Does this work on Windows 11?

[woburnland]

Simple question. Does this game work on windows 11? Preferably without having to fix this and that. I tried installing original goty (not enhanced) from disc but couldn't due to Securom not updating or whatever. Can you help me? Any advice and I would be very grateful

[LofLM🇵🇷]

One of my friends has Win11, it works for them , but the game isn’t very stable optimization wise. The enhanced version has the same exact issues as its older counterpart, the infamous memory leak issue (sometimes the game doesn’t save properly so you lose hours of content and loot), random frame drops seemingly random times etc. Not to mention the absolute abomination that is the in-game launcher: it can cause an initialization error, the only way to combat that is to delete the launcher.exe and rename BorderlandsGOTYEnhanced.exe to launcher.exe. ♥♥♥♥’s stupid.

All I’m saying is be prepared for anything.

[woburnland]

Thank you LoftLM for your reply. As Steam give refunds if it doesn't work I will purchase anyway. TBH I wasn't expecting to not have issues with game as Legacy games are always an issue with newer versions of O/S, especially Windows ones

[Wiesshund]

It works here in windows 11 both on a good desktop and on a very crappy ancient laptop.
Have never run into any issues, not even a game crash.
Im not even running any compatibility stuff on the game exe.

[EricOfMelnibone]

Running on Windows 11 here.

[Wiesshund]

The NON enhanced GOTY steam version works too by the way
It doesn't have SecurRom

[FeeshCTRL]

I run on Windows 11 just fine. Keep in mind that the only crash that happens is if there are too many items in the session at one time.

For instance if you kill Crawmerax too many times your game will crash and close, but as far as that goes I've never had any other issue. I think there's a file in the directory that you can edit to fix this, but I never bothered messing with it.

[Shadowgreenly]

I am on a rtx 3050 gaming laptop with windows 11 and the game wont launch after the launcher closes

[MrOoofGabe]

Works for me on Win 11, i have rtx 3080 and 32GB of RAM, RAM usage seems to increase quite dramatically the longer you play but when you restart it goes back down again, i would suggest downloading MSI afterburner to keep track of stats.

[Cyanmurder]

Works fine for me on Windows 11, my spec: Ryzen 7 2700x, dual Titan xp, 64GB Ram.

[x0Z3ro0x]

Works just fine on windows 11. I've had it open for days at a time and performance isn't effected.

[Dope as Dilly]

game crashes for me right after launcher closes. 5800x 4070 win 11

FOUND FIX! In startup options put -nohomedir

[Wiesshund]

Originally posted by Feesh:

I run on Windows 11 just fine. Keep in mind that the only crash that happens is if there are too many items in the session at one time.

For instance if you kill Crawmerax too many times your game will crash and close, but as far as that goes I've never had any other issue. I think there's a file in the directory that you can edit to fix this, but I never bothered messing with it.

Even if you turn that up, what happens is then you wind up beyond what the engine is optimized for, and it does not crash but starts running like crap, i guess it may eventually crash, but it starts running too bad to want to continue long enough to crash.

but i mean, the amount of stuff on the ground before it crashes out is a kind of insane amount, it's to the point by then that you cant properly pick stuff out anyways.

[RoedeOurm]

The game works great on Windows 11 if you are willing to do some tinkering .
I'll list the modifications I applied down below (I use an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU). Most of this was compiled from PCGamingWiki [www.pcgamingwiki.com] and multiple Steam Guides.

Using DXVK

This is what improved my experience on Borderlands GOTY Enhanced the most. It removed some slowdowns I used to get in some zones as well as some weird behaviour in cutscenes at the end of the game. This modification is also supposed to help with the Memory Leak the game has.

DXVK is a translation layer from DirectX to Vulkan. It also works on Windows 11 for specific games.

You can get the required files on the Github of DXVK [github.com]. BorderlandsGOTY.exe is a x64 executable. You need to copy the x64 versions of d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll in the same folder that contains the BorderlandsGOTY executable (for me, ...\steamapps\common\BorderlandsGOTYEnhanced\Binaries\Win64).

You can then use a config file for DXVK if you want to tinker settings but there was nothing more that needed to be done. You can add a small fps counter in the top of your screen to be sure that DXVK is being used.

Modification of WillowEngine.ini

This file can be found in ... Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\

bHasVoiceEnabled= False (instead of True)
--> prevents Steam from using a microphone input and improves multiplayer performance according to Steam Guides

In the <MemoryPool> section, add a 0 at the end of each line
--> prevent stutter when turning the camera (by increasing the allocated memory)

Modification of WillowInput.ini

This filed can be found in ...\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\

bEnableMouseSmoothing= false (instead of true)
<Engine.PlayerInput> LookUpScale= -300 (instead of -250)
--> improves mouse handling

Settings in the Borderlands GOTY Enhanced Launcher

Set anisotropy to x16 (in order to get x4 in game instead of Trilinear).
Don't touch that setting in the game afterwards, it's buggy.

Settings in NVidia Control Panel

(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Texture Filtering → High Performance
(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Max Frame Rate → 120 FPS (I chose to limit the FPS here)

(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Vulkan/OpenGL present method → prefer native (instead of auto)(use this if you are also using DXVK translation layer)

[Shadow-987]

Originally posted by RoedeOurm:

The game works great on Windows 11 if you are willing to do some tinkering .
I'll list the modifications I applied down below (I use an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU). Most of this was compiled from PCGamingWiki [www.pcgamingwiki.com] and multiple Steam Guides.

Using DXVK

This is what improved my experience on Borderlands GOTY Enhanced the most. It removed some slowdowns I used to get in some zones as well as some weird behaviour in cutscenes at the end of the game. This modification is also supposed to help with the Memory Leak the game has.

DXVK is a translation layer from DirectX to Vulkan. It also works on Windows 11 for specific games.

You can get the required files on the Github of DXVK [github.com]. BorderlandsGOTY.exe is a x64 executable. You need to copy the x64 versions of d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll in the same folder that contains the BorderlandsGOTY executable (for me, ...\steamapps\common\BorderlandsGOTYEnhanced\Binaries\Win64).

You can then use a config file for DXVK if you want to tinker settings but there was nothing more that needed to be done. You can add a small fps counter in the top of your screen to be sure that DXVK is being used.

Modification of WillowEngine.ini

This file can be found in ... Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\

bHasVoiceEnabled= False (instead of True)
--> prevents Steam from using a microphone input and improves multiplayer performance according to Steam Guides

In the <MemoryPool> section, add a 0 at the end of each line
--> prevent stutter when turning the camera (by increasing the allocated memory)

Modification of WillowInput.ini

This filed can be found in ...\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\

bEnableMouseSmoothing= false (instead of true)
<Engine.PlayerInput> LookUpScale= -300 (instead of -250)
--> improves mouse handling

Settings in the Borderlands GOTY Enhanced Launcher

Set anisotropy to x16 (in order to get x4 in game instead of Trilinear).
Don't touch that setting in the game afterwards, it's buggy.

Settings in NVidia Control Panel

(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Texture Filtering → High Performance
(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Max Frame Rate → 120 FPS (I chose to limit the FPS here)

(borderlandsGOTY.exe) Vulkan/OpenGL present method → prefer native (instead of auto)(use this if you are also using DXVK translation layer)

Does using DXVK on PC cause any issues for multiplayer / coop?

[RoedeOurm]

I don't think it causes any issues in Borderlands for multiplayer / coop.

I did some multiplayer / coop successfully in Borderlands The Prequel with DXVK active (with a total of 6 different people maybe ?).

I wouldn't suggest copying the DXVK files into every old game. It's best to first collect some info on forums and PCGamingWiki. DXVK also has lots of info on it's GitHub page.
To be safe, don't do any kind of modification on VAC enabled games.