OK right now I have been playing through Halo CE and 2 a little bit and I think some updates recently have started causing every time I get a checkpoint, the game hangs/freezes for a split second and then goes back to normal. Watching some older videos of CE on Youtube, I noticed at the time, there was no such freezing happening on both games, was super smooth without any hiccups. However when it loads a new area, no freezing or hanging happens with the game. Every single checkpoint I get this happens now. I am playing on the Xbox One X with a SSD external storage hooked up with the MCC on it.
Yeah this happens to me too but in all honesty I don’t really mind. I personally would rather 343 focus their energy on fixing any major existing problems with the MCC along with making sure that Reach is near perfect once it’s added. Apparently there are still a good amount of people whose game is literally unplayable due to constant freezes and crashes. I can see how the checkpoint stuttering is annoying to you though, and maybe with a future update at some point it’ll get fixed regardless.
BTW I already mentioned this in another post but Halo 3 and ODST has a similar issue for a long while now but its more of a framerate stutter with the checkpoints, not a deliberate split second freeze in game like Halo 1 and 2 (don’t know if both of those are related). However Halo 4 does not have any of these issues that I noticed.
Hopefully 343 will address this at some point alongside the MCC ports of Halo 1-4 to PC when it comes.