Random Frame Drops / Game Crashing (Campaign)

Games Halo Infinite
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In desperate need of help here…

The main issue: I just started playing the campaign and in both cut scenes and gameplay, my frames will drop from a consistent 144 to 24 fps causing the image on screen to completely freeze. I can pause, at which point after a second it will stabilize back to 144, or sometimes if I don’t pause and try to ride it out the game will crash. Many times this will happen in graphic intense situations (explosions, etc.) yet other times it feels completely random.

Also important: Prior to the campaign, sometimes I would launch the game and the menus would stutter through 12 fps. Restarting my PC usually fixed this but not always.

Specs / other info: GPU: RTX 3070 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Halo graphics: All set to LOW, min/max framerate at 144 Windows Game Mode: OFF High res textures: OFF Game launcher: Xbox Game Pass

I’m not the most pc savvy but I also know with my specs, this should absolutely not be happening. Can anyone help??

EDIT: Capping minimum framerate at 60 and lowering resolution (I play at 1440) to 85% did not work. I also tried restoring my overclocking settings to default. Nothing.

One more thing to add: When the game is running at 144 fps I can hear a slight humming from my gpu. When the game dips to 24 fps, the humming stops. Also, alt/tabbing out seems to restabilize my frames. What the hell is going on?!

EDIT 2: Capping the min/max at 120 fps seemed to help a bit. These random drops to 24 fps still occurred, just less often. Still, this absolutely should not be happening with my specs…

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Turn off min frame rate.
Lower resolution to the lowest possible
Turn off both the campaign high res texture pack and the multiplayer one

The game is horribly optimized and what I posted won’t fix everything, but it should stabilize your fps and cause you to crash a lot less, but you will still crash probably.

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I did all of this and sadly my game still randomly drops to 24 fps.

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Have you tried launching the game as admin or through steam or something like that?
I only had to do the things I stated before and that fixed mine and I use a 2070 and i59600k

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I would honestly love to play it on steam. I’ve seen a lot of stuff linking the issues to Xbox. Problem is, I have Game Pass and as far as I’m aware, the campaign isn’t free on steam the same way it’s included with Game Pass…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2hHDm1U65M