Halo CE and 2 Stuttering on Checkpoint

This is an issue I’ve encountered for the last 2 weeks, upon getting a checkpoint in either Halo: CE or Halo 2, the game freezes for about half a second, but still completely freezes. This does not occur within Halo 3/ODST/4, only in one and two. This is a very irritating problem breaking immersion and slowing the fun of both campaigns.

Yeah I have noticed this also, the checkpoints freezes for me every time I get one, however when it loads a new area, no such hanging happens.