I played a few games last night splitscreen and kept getting lag spikes. I thought it was my connection at first but I tried a single player game and no lag. Complex was off and on. Did a custom game on Impact lagged the whole entire time. Does anyone know the reason or are having similar issues?
Any feedback is much appreciated.
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Any solutions? - attempted again after changing settings on my monitor - complex is the worst!
I assume you mean the screen itself slows down. That’s actually called frame rate lag, not just ‘lag’.
Yes, I have this issue also. It’s a problem.
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yeah well maybe if you dont bump it you do not receive the answer lol. But anywho yes i have been having immense lag
Results from- Splitscreen known as Framerate lag not actually a xbox/internet problem its simply the piece of crap cant handle splitscreen so basically its a crap game lol
Solutions- Try lowering your resolution to lowest possible only thing i can think of other then not playing splitscreen beings how i have a girlfriend ill never play halo 4 due to this crap lag i get owned when playing splitscreen and rape people when im on single
Yeah, had the same problem a few days ago. Word of advice: 4 player split-screen, don’t do it.
They need to dial down the graphics on 2-4 player split screen. We used to play Halo 3 in the office on lunch no problem, Halo 4 has such poor frame rates it’s not fun.
Yeah after further looking into it there are so many people suffering from this. I even read that at the mlg event at Dallas people were voting to run other maps that were smaller just to avoid the frame rate problems. I really hope 343 addresses this as a huge problem as split screen has always been one of the greatest features of halo and now I don’t even want to share my screen with my friends because its so bad.
Especially forge maps.
PLEASE FIX THIS I LOVE SPLITSCREEN.
I had the same issue. They focus so much on their graphics and making everything look “cool” that they forgot the priority of a video game: the fun of it. I would rather play halo 4 without their acclaimed epic lighting system (which actually has to load every time you switch to human in forge mode) and actually fun with the game rather than sit there going “man this stinks we are getting like 20 fps. But, hey! Don’t those graphics and lights look neat!”
SMH
I get some pretty bad fps drops when playing complex with my brother. I don’t understand why that map is so bad for splitscreen compared to the rest.
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I’m having the exact same problems described here. .split screen multiplayer is basically unplayable on half the maps especially complex. I honestly wonder if they’ll ever fix this… Halo 5? Matches that suffer from this problem seem pretty 1 sided as if the other team has host or something. I’ve been having problems since launch and I honestly I feel like they owe us an apology for the problems thus far. I have paid THEM $99 to beta test their game. They’re con artists. I hate that games are released while requirinh critical patches. It allows developers to release broken games and fix them later? Who cares? There’s no number you can call to report a problem so we can help yhem with trending errors. No helpdesk to tell you that your framerate is dropping… and not your network or isp lagging. Shame on them. Where’s their pride? Ohhh… its already in their wallets.
I’ve heard about horrible frame rate lag in split-screen. I currently only have one Xbox controller but was thinking about buying the Halo 4 controller so I can play with some of my friends on one TV, but is the frame rate lag THAT bad as people say?
> I’ve heard about horrible frame rate lag in split-screen. I currently only have one Xbox controller but was thinking about buying the Halo 4 controller so I can play with some of my friends on one TV, but is the frame rate lag THAT bad as people say?
I’dont know about forge maps, but all default 4v4 maps works well, except for Complex, which is clearly broken (it reminds me splitscreen battles from GoldenEye on N64…).
On big maps it is usually well (like in Halo 3), except when there’s a lot of players fighting on screen. However it’s still quite playable.
As for DLC maps: Shatter is the worst of all. It’s basically unplayable.
They focus so much on detail,but the game looks ugly on my gaming monitor.I’d like for me somebody to explain why it looks blurry and ugly on my Gaming monitor wich is FULL HQ while on my 720p TV it looks great.i mean,everything looks better on my monitor than on my TV,except for Halo 4.
Why would one love splitscreen? You lose half of the screen and can’t differentiate noises between players
This is probably my biggest problem with this game. You cannot have LAN parties, splitscreen fun with some mates over. Those days are over…
> Why would one love splitscreen? You lose half of the screen and can’t differentiate noises between players
ya but you get a second perspective on the map which gives you more visuals to see enemies. i love it.
but back to the original question, yea the frame rate lag is horrible, the only map where i dont experience it is in Haven. BTB is just awful. i loved how splitscreen in reach had the graphics cut down immensely and the gameplay was just fine. but in halo 4, it seems like they are trying to maintain single player graphics on both screens… and its just not working. is this something they can fix/patch? or are we just stuck dealing with frame rate issues whenever we have friends over to play? 
> They focus so much on detail,but the game looks ugly on my gaming monitor.I’d like for me somebody to explain why it looks blurry and ugly on my Gaming monitor wich is FULL HQ while on my 720p TV it looks great.i mean,everything looks better on my monitor than on my TV,except for Halo 4.
Same prob. And The split screen frame drop is a ridiculous problem for a MULTIPLAYER game to suffer from.