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[Draugoth]

It looks like the Xbox Series S is facing serious memory allocation issues in Borderlands 3, at least according to Reddit user u/jokekiller94 — who posted a screenshot of the game crashing on their Series S console with an "out of memory" error on the screen.

The issue isn't limited to the original poster — Reddit user u/bacon_sammer responded in the thread, saying they have the same issue with Borderlands 3 crashing frequently on their Xbox Series S. They said the game runs fine on the Xbox Series X, however, so the it seems to be a Series S issue.

Sadly, this type of memory allocation issue is not uncommon for Microsoft's little console. According to reports from Digital Foundry and The Verge, the Series S' small memory capacity is a headache for developers to optimize around. It is the single biggest contributing factor to the console's lower graphical settings and lack of ray-tracing effects on Series S ports, and it bottlenecks the console's already weak 4 Teraflop (PS4 Pro level) GPU.

Apparently, complaints among developers regarding the Series S' memory became so extreme that Microsoft released a dev kit in June 2022 that gave developers more manipulation over the Series S' memory system.

 

[diffusionx]

Borderland 3's recommend PC GPU is a 1060. A 6GB card. I don't think the issue here is the Xbox.

 

[Insane Metal]

This has been posted already.

 

[Captain Toad]

This seems like a Series S problem.

 

[UnsanctionedBuffoonery]

This seems like a Series S problem.

This seems like a bad development practice problem.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

This happened on the Series X with Midnight Suns with the comic cover bug, and randomly in Mount and Blade 2 and it likely happens in other games through bugs as well, it’s not a Series S only occurrence.

 

[GHG]

Imagine unironically posting tweets from Gavin Stevens.

 

[alucard0712_rus]

This seems like a bad development practice problem.

Developers not making games in vacuum. They have a deadline. Making two different consoles is stupidest thing ever happened to a console. Switch have two profiles too (docked and handheld) but hardware is the same.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

I feel more annoyed by the fact that the button in that popup is GIGANTIC and the text is really tiny

 

[Banjo64]

A big deal was made about this at launch too and it was specifically for Borderland’s 3 then too. Not sure why it’s tearing its head again now.

 

[DaGwaphics]

LOL at a software bug (probably some kind of memory leak) being blamed on a static piece of hardware. Especially with a game that released on PS4.

The error message itself is a bit funny though, obviously some generic DX errors are used rather than console specific messages.

 

[skit_data]

Oh, one of the few people that has me blocked on twitter.
Ah, yes he’s the ”PS5 GPU is overclocked leading to heat discolouring the white panels”-guy.

No loss.

 

[Luigi Mario]

Imagine unironically posting tweets from Gavin Stevens.

Wasn’t he one of those Twitter devs that “knew” about the performance delta between PS5 and Xbox Series consoles?

 

[RoadHazard]

Why would an Xbox send a crash report to Sony?

 

[GHG]

Wasn’t he one of those Twitter devs that “knew” about the performance delta between PS5 and Xbox Series consoles?

Yep indeed. He posted a bunch of crap here but can't remember what his username was.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This has been posted already.

the world must know!!

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Why would an Xbox send a crash report to Sony?

Think he just means in this case that Xbox is telling you what went wrong, while Sony would give you a vague error code and a form to report it.

Kinda bullshit though since virtually any other way a game crashes on Xbox it just dumps you right back to the main menu with no message or error code.

 

[rodrigolfp]

So, are there machines out there that have unlimited VRAM, OP?

 

[RoadHazard]

Think he just means in this case that Xbox is telling you what went wrong, while Sony would give you a vague error code and a form to report it.

Kinda bullshit though since virtually any other way a game crashes on Xbox it just dumps you right back to the main menu with no message or error code.

Yeah, I know that's what he meant, but that's not what he wrote.

 

[T4keD0wN]

So, are there machines out there that have unlimited VRAM, OP?

Yes, ive heard you can download it on PC.

 

[M1chl]

Spreading fake news, aren't ya? Go to the thread already posted

 

[Kilau]

Imagine unironically posting tweets from Gavin Stevens.

This hate propaganda against Gavin Stevens is pathetic.

 

[GHG]

This hate propaganda against Gavin Stevens is pathetic.

And clearly, he still continues to chat shit, thankfully it's not here anymore because he couldn't handle having honest discussions.

Spreading fake news, aren't ya? Go to the thread already posted

It gets better, the debunking of the fake news is via more fake news.

 

[Mr Moose]

Yep indeed. He posted a bunch of crap here but can't remember what his username was.

o'dium - Enjoys long walks in the park and burning shell of PS5 with a lighter.

 

[Duchess]

Gosh, this sounds nasty :|

 

[GHG]

o'dium - Enjoys long walks in the park and burning shell of PS5 with a lighter.

Fucking hell, he was the one that also took a lighter to his PS5?

It's shocking (but maybe a little unsurprising) that he has a defense force.

 

[Corndog]

Why is this a thread?

 

[Corndog]

the world must know!!

Know what? We already know the basic hardware specs including ram.

 

[adamsapple]

Duplicate:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/apparently-the-series-s-can-run-out-of-vram%E2%80%A6.1656397/

 

[Mr Moose]

Fucking hell, he was the one that also took a lighter to his PS5?

It's shocking (but maybe a little unsurprising) that he has a defense force.

Might've been someone else who burned theirs but the idiot posted this and talked about how badly designed it is (and was due to heat lol).

 

[GHG]

Might've been someone else who burned theirs but the idiot posted this and talked about how badly designed it is (and was due to heat lol).

I do wonder how these clowns must feel now.

The lengths they went to create FUD campaigns for 2 years straight only for Phil to give up on them 3-4 years later. Sad times.

 

[akbennyewu]

BL3 would crash my xbox 1, my 1x and most recently my series x. When I say crash, I wish it was limited to the memory warning issue (I have gotten that in Minecraft Dungeons too oddly enough), but that vast majority of the crashes I experienced were actually complete hardware shutdowns, and power ups would demonstrate an overheating warning (all three of my xbox consoles have shown this message, even the series x).

The problem is not a series s issue, it might very well be an xbox ecosystem poor optimization issue, but has nothing to do with a specific model of the series.

The same problem occurs on Tiny Tina as well.

My takeaways were, no more gearbox games on xbox consoles.

 

[Captain Toad]

This seems like a bad development practice problem.

I wasn't being Series S.

 

[SeraphJan]

Does this problem occur even if you don't use quick resume?

 

[K' Dash]

that doesn't look like an error that would pop out on a console.

smells like bullshit to me.

But nice try keeping up with the Xbox hate threads.

 

[Mr Moose]

that doesn't look like an error that would pop out on a console.

smells like bullshit to me.

But nice try keeping up with the Xbox hate threads.

It's real, not really a big deal (it's a dev issue) but the error message is dumb.

 

[Corndog]

This seems like a bad development practice problem.

Could be dynamically allocated memory not being returned or just some setting that should be changed for series s in comparison to x.

 

[K' Dash]

It's real, not really a big deal (it's a dev issue) but the error message is dumb.

yeah, that seems like they referenced the wrong message in the code.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This seems like a bad development practice problem.

True, devs should limit the scope of their game designs.

 

[MikeM]

I still don’t understand how Series S cane out with less vram than One X.

 

[In Cold Blood]

After seeing what ND did with the patch for 8gig PC cards for the last of us, it's pretty obvious where the fault lies.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Borderland 3's recommend PC GPU is a 1060. A 6GB card. I don't think the issue here is the Xbox.

Sounds more like Piss Poor optimization and using the community as Guinea pigs.

 

[damidu]

it’s both dev and box issue.
when they actually optimize for s, you are still ending up with cut features, cut performance modes and shit graphics.