Lemme start by posting my specs for my PC. It is a prebuilt I bought with my tax refund and finally got to test out Halo Infinite with.
Intel Core i7-11700F
16 GB Memory
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
1TB HDD + 500GB SDD
And this thing, which has pretty much no problem running other games on ultra-high graphics settings… the load times for Halo Infinite just drag on.
I never knew how much of the campaign landscape that the initial loading screen to the main menu showed off, because on my Series X it loads to the main menu within three seconds.
And loading into matches has me hearing music while seeing a black screen. And then I begin to see looping camera perspectives of the environment for about thirty seconds, followed by ANOTHER black screen that then finally loads the players to the starting point and then the match can begin.
And good god does the hit-reg fail me on PC.
Skewer shot? It can sometimes register, while other times it just seemingly passed through the guy’s torso and struck the environment in the background.
I get punched from the front? Somehow it gets registered as a melee strike on my back and I die instantly.
Players teleporting a few feet from their current position as the player inputs syncs up? That was a problem I had on occasion every few matches in my Xbox Series X, but my PC has it in spades!!
Apparently the problems that Xbox players face are amplified on PC.
I have yet to play campaign so I might have some loading time issues there, but in all honesty load times in MP are pretty quick and I have the game installed on an HDD rather than an SSD.
Same
Dunno what specifically is making the load times slower.
I also notice these slow load times and issues with hit-registration are amplified when playing on Xbox One. It cannot be RAM, since the Series X and my PC both have 16GB.
I too have both a Series X and a high-end gaming PC. Yes, packet loss/desync/stuttering puts me at a severe disadvantage when I play on PC compared to Xbox. I’m glad that they have acknowledged the issues in several posts to include the Season 1 feedback/outcomes blog updates and roadmap. Hoping performance gets a steady series of boosts with these monthly Drop Pods.
What SSD did your pre built come with? SATA SSD or NVMe SSD? What mother board does it have? If it is an NVMe, what gen? Really have to be carful with pre builds, a lot of times they’re just pieced together and shipped out, something as easy as enabling XMP isn’t enabled and can kill your performance. Definitely check your bios and see if the ram is set correctly. Also, make sure it is installed to your SSD and not your HDD. Personally, I’d get rid of that mechanical drive and add another (assuming it has one) NVMe. Your MB should have at least two slots.
Anyway, Halo Infinite loads faster on my PC than my Series X. I’m running an WD SN850 at full gen 4 speeds, 7Gbps.
You’re kind of lucky here, usually a lot of us crash back to desktop. I haven’t played in over a month but I never experience these black screens, just the crashing back to desktop.
I can only assume you’re playing with KBM, correct? If so, this is nothing to do with hit register, its due to KBM with no aim assist and lower/weaker bullet mag compared to controller.
Well, that’s your load time problem. You’re comparing a mechanical drive load times to an NVMe (Series X), the HDD will never win. You need to move the game to your SSD.
What brand PC did you get and what’s the model?
But is your RAM set up correctly? Not saying that is the issue, but without looking in your bios you won’t know for sure.
The game is poorly optimized for pc. This was known back at launch. My pc is roughly the same specs and it could barely run the thing properly without tinkering with the settings. Basically set everything to low. Its a travesty on almost every level.
as someone who also plays pc… look, i wont lie, my pc isn’t the best. having to play more recent games (like cold war) on medum - high. but… i have to play infinite ENTIRELY on low just because it spikes my CPU to 100% at an constant, making my computer an jet engine. this game may be a small file size, but it ain’t optimized fully. not to mention BTB CHUGS constantly, which makes it nearly unplayable when everything is in site… yet i can play cold war, and equally as un optimized game, perfectly fine and that game looks 10x better in terms of shading and lighting than infinite -v-
Yea the game runs pretty bad even on good PCs. Given there’s always card shortages for as long as I can remember, there’s plenty of people running old video cards that are simply below the min specs. I played this on my original xbox one and it ran better than a 1070 lol. An rx 480, card below the min specs performed very similar to the 1070 as well but still.
Nah. I plugged in my controller.
I’m not used to KBM play so I figured I don’t want to screw over my teammates because I am unsure of what keys to press for select actions (equipment usage, grenade throw, etc.)
People refuse to believe me when I bring this stuff up. For some reason the game is very poorly optimized on everything but the series x. I guess that’s their target market
Looking at your listing you have a NVMe SSD and a HDD. Go under the Xbox app, details, manage, then files. If it says 62.05GB on drive C then it should be on your SSD, if it is another letter, it is on the HDD.
From what I have seen from my GF’s series X and other SSD’s on PC, loading seems to be an issue all-around. The menus load forever. Games themselves do change depending on hardware.
Poor PC Optimization is a given, as 343 is not used to making PC content. In fact, Halo MCC when it came to PC was apparently riddled with issues that had to be ironed out.
And I think the only reason that the game is available on the Xbox One is because of how much scalping had happened for both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Scalping that was amplified at a higher level than usual thanks to covid causing quarantines and some people going unemployed, so they made a gambit at buying a limited item and selling it back at an inflated cost to make an income of sorts.
Man did that backfire for consoles. Not so much so when it came to trading cards and other such geek materials.
So since the game would be launching on a platform that most players didn’t have because of scalping hoarders, Microsoft had to ask 343 to port the game to the previous generation console. Resulting in people playing on a sub-optimal system to run a game that was made with the design specs of the Series S/X in mind as the minimum requirements.
How do you know for sure? Look up Gamers Nexus on YouTube, he does a lot of prebuilt reviews and you’d be surprised at how many SI’s do not set up the bios correctly and this could cause up to a 15% hit in performance.
According to the specs of that PC, the ram being used is 3000MHz. Check and make sure it’s not running 2666MHz or whatever your MB defaults it at. Easiest way to check is hit your windows key, type “task”, hit enter. Go to performance, click on memory and see what the speed is.