Holy Hera this game is running slower than ever following season 3. Its not just on my personal computer its nearly unplayable on the Xbox Series S with stuttering and abysmal frame spikes! Don’t even get me started on how much hotter my laptop is running this game, when in Season 2 and Season 1 I never had ANY heating issues.
Just played Halo 3 on my PC on the MCC, it runs like a dream come true, as good as the day it released on the Xbox 360, couldn’t even finish a single match in Infinite today before my PC became a space heater, and my 240W power adapter has to be replaced now just to have baseline performance, let alone a decent framerate. What happened to this games optimization? Cloud Streaming on Xbox Series X is now the best way to get a consistent framerate, which is maddening.
Something is defiantly going on, I used to be able to get 300ish FPS with my settings but now I can barley touch 200. 343i did add ray tracing, if you can even call it that. They took the less taxing RT feature and made it even less taxing, and not even worth it. Ray traced sun shadows, what a joke. I said in the past if they ever added ray tracing, it would be ray traced shadows because of AMD, I was hoping they give PC full RT support but nope.
I did some benchmarks on Fragmentation and Highpower with RT on and off since those maps are pretty large, sunny and mainly outside, it was only a +/-10 FPS difference and the difference in visuals was very subtle. It’s not even worth turning on.
Also noticed my GPU temp is hitting 63°c, I’m pretty sure pre update it was under 60°c, as I tuned my fan curves so the GPU stays under 60°c (with FurMark) because the 40 series will drop a couple boost bins when hitting +60°c, so this results in a clock speed under 3000Mhz, bounces between 2955 and 2985.