Infinite Tech Preview – PC Specific Feedback

Games Halo Infinite
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> - Odd interaction with melee lunging to an opponent who dies while you are in mid-lunge. Results in a disorienting rubberbanding effect back to where the lunge started and then quickly back to where the opponent was
> - as others have said, the screen shake from melee is too much
> - outlines sometimes do not render which makes an enemy red team member in blue coating really difficult to figure out friend or foe
> - I can’t play the Tech Preview anymore. The low framerate even on low graphics settings coupled with really weird flashing artifacts at the bottom of my screen gave me one heck of a migraine. I’ll try to get screenshots later of it if I feel like braving it again.

Here’s a screenshot: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1705160970212385030/55C1BF975A4DC8CD44B00D543DDCDD31FE8CE755/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

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All in All a great experience so far 343i. I was getting a little worried with H4 and H5. Although they both have great gameplay mechanics. This experience so far has been awesome, yes of course there are some bugs and I will get to that in a moment my dears. As a diehard Halo fan I’ve played through all the Halo games except HW and HW2, just didn’t like playing them on console with a controller. this test flight so far brings me back to Halo 3, my favorite of all time, and I got that with the weapon drills honestly, just how I felt at home sitting behind the drill line looking at the sandbags. From throwing equipment on the battlefield to just walking around fighting the bots feels like I’m home. Okay now for the issues. I have noticed a bot just standing in the corner not doing anything at times. I’m fine with the difficulty of the bots they are actually quite hard for a new pc player like myself but I fully accept trying my hardest against them. in one game I did notice a pelican coming in over head of me behind the tower and I stopped to look in awe upon it and too my surprise it was lagging bad after it crossed the wall, then about 5 seconds it over accelerated and was taking off at light speed. Overall most guns feel amazing except the bulldog, it feels quite underpowered when I’m trying to use it. The Bulldog doesn’t give me a good vibe and I tend to try to use it more and still dislike its overall power to range ratio. Why the heck are we still trying to use buckshot instead of slugs? I feel like if I had a bulldog with slugs id be unstoppable. Yet as it stands if I saw someone pick up the bulldog I would charge them knowing they are a weak link. Another issue I seen was after completing a match my crosshairs from the Battle Rifle were melding with kill report. Along with seeing other players dead upon entering the screen that shows the player lineup or shields flashing like H4 and H5. I am Ecstatic to see the rest. take the time you need 343i. Also if I were you for launch day don’t be idiots and get an abundant amount of servers.

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Says invited for pc but says for version only says web. Every single link I have erros our or gives a 404 or oops and I still can not get to the DL for the beta. Total mess.

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> > I can only get as far as hearing the Halo music come on for a second before the game crashes. Updated my Nvidia drivers to the latest update and am waiting on an optional Windows update just in case that fixes it.
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> > Specs:
> > Intel i5-10600K @ 4.1 GHz
> > Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti
> > 32 GB RAM
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> Same exact issue happening to me.
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> Specs:
> Intel i7-4770K @ 3.50 GHz
> Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
> 16 GB RAM
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> I’ve tried everything I can think of.
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> Uninstalled and reinstalled the game on both my hard drives. (main hard drive with my OS on it being a 250 GB SSD, the other one being a 1TB HDD) Updated my drivers. Updated Windows. Verified my game files via Steam. Nothing has worked. Every time I launch the build, it just consistently sits on the initial black loading screen with three dots for about 2+ minutes, then I sometimes hear what I assume is the menu music, immediately followed by crashing to desktop.

I’ve noticed a few people running 900 series cards saying the same thing. Wonder if there’s something about this build that doesn’t like 900 cards.

Edit: This is why technical tests like this are run. Here’s hoping whatever issues we’re encountering can be fixed before the next test. 343 did say this build was two months old.

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> It says I was invited but i don’t see the code :frowning: help please

Same here. Apparently I got an invitation on the notifications that said I was selected for the pc build, and that I could get to it by downloading it on the pc version of Xbox Insider Hub. Not the case apparently :frowning:

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Okay, initial/first impressions of Halo: Infinite Tech Preview : 7/10 as of “RIGHT NOW” for me. Game feels sluggish/input-laggy… Maybe they’ll improve things, or maybe its just the game that’s new for me, which is why I am feeling what I am feeling. Got zero “chills” so far :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, the game is very un-optimized I would say. With my RTX 2070 Super + Ryzen 5 3600, 1440P(2K) gives me 45-50FPS avg. I can’t even think of 2160P(4K) XD.
1080P Ultra settings gives me 90FPS MAX. But when I just OPEN my Streaming Software (SLOBS), the frames drop to 70FPS. I start recording, it drops to 65-70FPS.
P.S. these FPS were recorded only in WEAPON DRILLS. I haven’t even had a full match yet. (Update: in full match, SLOBS Open: 40-50FPS, SLOBS Closed: 50-60FPS. 1080P High/Ultra Settings).
Also, the game seems to be very CPU demanding, and GPU usage is quite low… (80-90% CPU usage, max. 40-50% GPU usage)

For a game that is meant to be a medium/fast paced FPS, optimization is a must. But so far, I don’t see it. In fact, the thing is, the game looks quite choppy/teary too. I don’t know why. Ultra settings are also unable to fix this. Maybe its because I’ve turned V-sync off, but MCC doesn’t have this problem at all.

So yeah, I just hope that by the time the game release, they’ll address the said issues, and make the game more enjoyable for everyone. Campaign will definitely be good, but the gameplay so far has not impressed me.

BEFORE HATING ON THE GAME: THIS IS A PRE-BETA RELEASE. Its between ALPHA and BETA. BE PATIENT FOR THE FULL RETAIL RELEASE.

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After a few more hours of playing, Here’s what I’ve found on PC:

MENU-
Controls:
Changing push to talk key crashes game.
Changing scoreboard key crashes the game.
Mouse side buttons swapped (UI for close mouse button shows far mouse button instead and vice versa).
When reloading the game, sometimes all key-bindings / mouse settings are defaulted.

UI:
When reloading the game, some UI features that are toggled on aren’t visible (like FPS counter and Network Stats).

Graphics:
When turned off and back on, borderless window option will always start in windowed and not borderless windowed anymore and sometimes crash on start menu.
When re-turning borderless window on, FPS drop drastically (30 FPS max).
When borderless window re-enabled, player model in Body/AI customizing menu looks very blurry (unfocused).
Above can be fixed by modifying graphic settings, but have to do it at every launch instead of settings being saved

PLAYER-

Prosthesis:
Changing prosthesis back and fourth always leaves one limbs prosthesis even if all are selected as none when starting with a leg (Does change back when exiting to menu).

Camo:
Stone Green Camo icon doesn’t show in customization but does on player.

Chest plating:
UA/M557 Jackplate icon shows but doesn’t show on player.
UA/Relikt Cuirass icon shows but doesn’t show on player.

Shoulder, hand, and arm armor:
All good

Hip:
All armor has icons but no difference is seen to the player when cycling.

Knee:
All good

VEHICLE-
Wasp engines aren’t spinning while stationary (not a killer, but if the scorpion is animated, I would expect the wasp to at least be in flight or something simple)

GAMEPLAY-
Sometimes, when failed to join a match, it will continuously tell you you were unable to join in a forever loop you can’t escape (Have to restart game).
When joining mid-game, sound effects becomes very low compared to normal.
When joining midgame, AI is defaulted (and will stay defaulted).

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Input latency is really high, even on the lowest settings. I would really like to see Fullscreen as opposed to only having windowed fullscreen.
Keybinding, and sensitivity adjustments are not saving for next start-up.

RTX 3080
RYZEN 9 3900x
32GB @ 3600

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bugs
I have played about 10 matches now and have noticed sometimes at the start of the game one of the players is dead in the start cutscene.
not sure if it was a glitch or me not paying attention but sometimes the ai just felt like they had more shields at times making

performance
when it comes to the performance it’s not terrible but after turning on rtss I noticed at 4k and all settings maxed the game was using only around 50% of my 3090 which is weird
in the customization screen performance dropped from around 60fps down to 13fps while going through new items I got for my spartan
gameplay
when it comes to gameplay sprint kind of feels slow like my spartan is more walking at a slightly faster pace and the commando rifle seems to have a little too much recoil for it being around the same play style as the assault rifle. the bots are also always taking the same route each game at the start making for an easy multi kill. the loading screen is also bad, just having 3 small dots in the top corner of the screen makes you feel like it isn’t really loading.

side note PLEASE LEAVE the ragdoll physics I love seeing an enemy spartan launch just by punching them

gameplay links

these are all live streams so not edited or anything
halo infinite technical preview - YouTube dead spartan at start
Halo infinite - YouTube this video is when I activated rtss to see how much resources were being used by the game
Halo infinite - YouTube dead spartan at the start as well

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I played 3 games of Bot Arena and in Medium settings it runs at 55-65 fps with my Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060

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> > Got my Steam Key through HalyWayPoint.
> > Downloaded the game through Steam.
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> > Everytime i click the play button, the game starts at a black screen with 3 dots in the top left hand corner of the screen then this happens every time:
> >
> > game_Release.exe has stopped working
> > A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
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> > I’m stuck at this point, any ideas what the issue might be?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> I have the same problem on my pc

Try updating your graphics drivers. It worked for me.

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (3.6GHz)
16gb RAM

Based on 4 bot playthroughs and 1 academy game.

  • I’m experiencing a visual artifact at the very bottom of my screen. It appears as blobs of red/blue/green at the bottom. After some testing, I realized this artifact is more pronounced depending on where my character is looking. - Averaging 45 fps. I updated AMD drivers from 21.2.3 to 21.7.2 and noticed minimal improvement. Default settings were on low with max frame capped at lowest option. I changed settings to high and max frame capped at highest option but did not notice much improvement. - Sprinting makes the screen move around too much. - Playing with keyboard and mouse and the controls seem a little stiff to me.
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Activating xp boosts crashes everything.

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This will probably get burried.
But can I please be able to bind the left/right click on the scroll wheel on my mouse.
I use the G502 mouse, and on my scroll wheel, not only you can scroll, you can also use it to click left and right.

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I was invited but I don’t have a code. This is on PC.

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I have a RX 580 and cant get above 25 fps in bot slayer but in weapon challenges im at 60 fps. Any tips or thoughts? If this is how its going to be guess ill have to buy a new gpu???

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I have about 2 hours played so far and here are my initial impressions. To start my PC specs are…
RTX 3070
Intel 10700k
32gb ram @ 3200
One of my initial thoughts when I played my first game was regarding the input latency when moving at all. It leads to the game feeling kind of sluggish and not as smooth as i would have expected. Another issue I, as well as many others have apparently had is poor framerate. I have a solid PC and seem to be capped right around 70 FPS regardless of how high or low my graphical settings are. I changed the framerate limit in setting to max out at 144, but it is possible the game is only meant to be running around 70 fps at the moment.
One of my favorite things I liked gameplay-wise was the movement speed, and the speed of sprinting. I liked the uniqueness of Halo 5’s movement system, and it led to fun fast paced gameplay, but with my favorite Halo game being Halo 3, this feels closer to that than it does Halo 5, which has me super excited.
For a rough pre release build of the game, I am really enjoying myself and enjoying this game!

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Changing my keybind for the scoreboard crashes the game. Anyone else?

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Man i really wanted to play this, feels bad :c

Got the two invitation e-mails but nothing, not a single message on Waypoint today.

Losing hope.

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Noticed some people with better PC components on here having FPS issues, so thought I’d share my two cents. I’m on a Geforce GTX 1650, Intel i3 CPU and game has been running smoothly, had no issues with my FPS or lag.