Fix: Borderlands 4 No Audio on Steam Fedora Linux

Date: 2025-09-14 | borderlands-4 | explore | fedora | linux | observe | steam | video-games |

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I recently bought Borderlands 4 on Steam to play on my laptop (Lenovo P1 Gen 7) running Fedora Linux. But I kept running into an issue with the audio where it would be totally absent or present for the first couple seconds of the intro screens then disappear.

Here's how I resolved it on my machine.

Update all packages

The first thing I did was update all packages and reboot my system. This seems like a dumb thing to try but it works a surprising amount and takes just a couple minutes so worthwhile.

One of the benefits of Fedora is that they get many package updates faster than other distributions and many of these are critical bug fixes. So if you're running into weird issues, it's worth trying to update your machine and see if that fixes it.

To update your packages: sudo dnf update

Once that's done, it's worth doing a reboot to see if things are fixed (some updates require a reboot and doing a reboot may fix other things by itself).

Increase audio buffer size

That didn't fix the audio for me, so I kept trying other things.

The one that ended up working was to increase the audio buffer size by adding a Steam launch option.

I added this by:

  • Go to Borderlands 4 entry on Steam
  • Select Settings > Properties
  • Under Launch Options put PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%

After closing out the game and restarting it, my audio worked!

Next

This worked for my machine but remember that everyone's computer is a little bit different - hardware, firmware, software, settings - so you might need to try a few different things to get something that works.

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