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Halo: CEA is now available in The Master Chief Collection on PC
- Thread starter Talus
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YO THIS GAME RUNS LIKE BUTT. Bloodgulch in multiplayer drops into the 40s on a GTX 950 and 5GHZ i7-2600K. Multiplayer doesn't even have the updated graphics? What gives?
The game is DirectX 9.0 game from 2001. 19 years old. The minimum requirements is a 733MHZ pentium 3. My CPU is fine. It runs reach fine, it runs Crysis (a know single thread performance hog) fine. Even DOOM 2016 runs better than Halo CEA multiplayer.
Those were the requirements for the original PC release. This isn't that game. This is a new port.
The multiplayer doesn't have the upgraded graphics. It's the same game from 2001. The campaign with updated graphics runs better than the multiplayer. No frame drops there, and again I run other more intensive games better than this.
Nope, no reshade and I haven't enabled anything special in GeForce other than Gsync
Seriously a game that looks like this shouldn't be running the way it is on my rig.
Especially when I can run something like this at 70fps +
Especially when I can run something like this at 70fps +
The achievements seem funky on Steam. When I beat the mission Halo, I got the achievement for beating The Silent Cartographer.
I mean, yeah, I beat a few of these missions on Xbox One, but I never got that far, and I never got the Steam achievements for beating the first two missions.
I mean, yeah, I beat a few of these missions on Xbox One, but I never got that far, and I never got the Steam achievements for beating the first two missions.
We might need to make a post and threadmark it on every Halo MCC PC thread at this point.
The 343i team is bringing on an industry leading audio mixing company to rework the audio for the whole MCC. They don't have an ETA yet on it though.
It's set to OG Xbox graphics by default. You can change them in options.
It defaulted to Anniversary's graphics for me. I had to wait to get into game to change on the fly.
I remember the game's anniversary mode running bad too on the One X (it would drop frames here and there). Has that ever been updated?
So, as someone who never played Halo before (except Reach as part of MCC in January. I didn't notice any audio issues, but I just played the campaign, with speakers, not headphones):
-anything I should know? I'm in this purely for the single-player, already own the entire MCC (6 campaigns for 50 CAD felt like a good deal)
-I understand there are several graphical options? Are there any other significant differences? Which one should I play?
Appreciate any answers, looking forward into finally learning the Halo story.
-anything I should know? I'm in this purely for the single-player, already own the entire MCC (6 campaigns for 50 CAD felt like a good deal)
-I understand there are several graphical options? Are there any other significant differences? Which one should I play?
Appreciate any answers, looking forward into finally learning the Halo story.
Anyone else having trouble installing this on PC Gamepass? It keeps saying "error". I can install anything else, just this won't work.
EDIT: Error code 0x803FB107
Fixed this by going into the Microsoft Store app and finding MCC and hitting download there.
EDIT: Error code 0x803FB107
Fixed this by going into the Microsoft Store app and finding MCC and hitting download there.
Seriously a game that looks like this shouldn't be running the way it is on my rig.
Especially when I can run something like this at 70fps +
man, i was so hype for this but damm this doesnt look that good.
It is confusing since there is a message missing from the page. You should go hear and pick up just the Halo DLC and not need to buy the whole collection
The missing message should be same as the DLC Halo Reach. They are in-fact fine to purchase without the full MCC, so you can get just one game you want:
This is great news, I wasn't aware this was happening. Thanks for posting this. I played about 1/2 hour and stopped due to same muffled audio as Reach.
Thanks!
I get 400+ FPS on CE BTB Multiplayer and 160 FPS on campaign with anniversary graphics and it's as smooth as can be. Although I have 1080 Ti i7 8700K
It is confusing since there is a message missing from the page. You should go hear and pick up just the Halo DLC and not need to buy the whole collection
The missing message should be same as the DLC Halo Reach. They are in-fact fine to purchase without the full MCC, so you can get just one game you want:
Thanks! Just picked it up! I'm slow to finish games so picking it up piecemeal makes more sense to me.
Buddy the difference in hardware for both of you is quite remarkable to say at the least...
Yeah, i wanted to look for big maps, it was rat race hate that map..
If you get banned for that it's F N lame...
Edit:Wasn't competitive game, just social, getting ban for leaving social game, yikes...
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You can switch back and forth between graphics modes on the fly, but not audio. You can select different audio before starting a mission in the menu.
the remastered graphics are neat, but for a first time playthrough, I recommend using the original, so I also recommend the original audio.
As for the game itself - TBH I think it's the best Halo campaign in terms of gameplay. I always get the Story was over-praised. It's fine pulpy sci fi nonsense that's interesting enough to keep going, but a lot of it is cheese. There's definitely a charm there but it's not some Oscar winning story.
Hey dumbass i fixed it. My GPU was being so underutilized that core clock dropped to 300mhz instead of 1200mhz. 100+ fps.
If you took the time to look at the utilization of my hardware in that screen you'd see the game literally wasn't trying to run. You clearly have no idea about anything hardware related if you think a 5Ghz 8 thread CPU cant run something from 2001.
Part of the problem seems to be that they didn't port over certain effects from either the Xbox (NVIDIA SoundStorm) or original PC version of the game (Creative EAX).
Missing environmental effects like that is an unfortunately common issue in many "remasters" of older PC games (around 2008 and earlier).
A new mix alone is not going to fix that.
Your CPU and GPU both seem to be under-utilized, which suggests that something else may be wrong - like the GPU being stuck in a low-power state after a crash.Seriously a game that looks like this shouldn't be running the way it is on my rig.
Especially when I can run something like this at 70fps +
Have you tried restarting your PC?
The game is nearly nineteen years old.
Sorry guys - I forgot that modern ports of older games always work perfectly and can't have performance issues on vastly superior hardware.
I'm looking forward to diving back in to Combat Evolved later this week. To whoever plays this game for the first time, I hope you will enjoy this experience as much as I did when the game launched on the OG Xbox back in November 2001.
I'll see you on Blood Gulch, fellas.
I'll see you on Blood Gulch, fellas.
You're the one that was defending it, by saying their CPU was too old for the game.
Nah dawg. Don't play that game. You said it was CPU. Point here is the game shouldn't be causing my GPU to do this. I shouldn't have to force a constant clock. I'm not the only one having this issue.
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Had to manually update via Xbox app but it's downloading 25.7Gb now. It's bloody slow, like 8Mb/s slow, busy servers I suppose.
That's it I'm off to buy an Elite 2 controller now.
That's it I'm off to buy an Elite 2 controller now.
Did you participate in any of the flights? I don't know if it will help, but be sure to delete the MCC folder in this location %appdata%\LocalLow\MCCNah dawg. Don't play that game. You said it was CPU. Point here is the game shouldn't be causing my GPU to do this. I shouldn't have to force a constant clock. I'm not the only one having this issue.
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Launching game should remake that MCC folder, might help :)
Good news is 343 is already on the Plasma Pistol and Achievement bug as a few have mentioned in this thread:
How'd you fix the issue btw?Nah dawg. Don't play that game. You said it was CPU. Point here is the game shouldn't be causing my GPU to do this. I shouldn't have to force a constant clock. I'm not the only one having this issue.
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Your GPU is the low-end of a series that is two generations obsolete, your CPU is ancient, and of course the multiplayer doesn't have updated graphics, it was never remastered. CEA is a Singleplayer-Only game which had no multiplayer. This is Halo 1 Multiplayer, not CEA Multiplayer. It'll be a similar case with Halo 2, where the OG multiplayer is old-graphics only - The "Remastered" version of Halo 2 MP is just a handful of the most popular maps in Halo 4's engine with the gameplay regeared to play more like Halo 2.
As for why this would demand stronger hardware than the original PC release, is because it's running in MCC's sandbox with a whole bunch of other backend stuff running in the background that didn't in the 2003 release - The performance impact of such things adds up fast despite how low-impact some people might think they are.
No but I appreciate the suggestion. Thank you.
My bad. I went into the Nvidia control panel and forced my power policy to max performance for the game executable. Before that I forced a constant voltage in MSI afterburner but I want to avoid that. NVCP works most of the time but it still drops fps from time to time because the game is just too basic visually. Just happens less often now.
Max performance should really be the standard if you're gaming. I noticed massive FPS gains when toggled for emulators so I figure it can translate to games too.
My guy...I already fixed it. My GPU was going into low power state cuz the game has such basic visuals. See my other posts. My hardware was being severely underutilized. And AGAIN campaign with remastered graphics runs wayyyyy better than multiplayer. Y'all rushing in to defend this broken port. Tons of other peeps having this issue aside from me. Check the links I posted.
I suppose, never really had an issue before this game though. Drivers generally picked up on when it should and shouldn't boost. Even with max performance the drivers still think I have no load sometimes though, and drop my clocks. Just less than before.
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My reply was more about the sound in Halo Reach. Though they really should work with the Azure team and backwards engineer the audio system that was used for Gears 5 into Halo CE:A