Halo: Infinite was released a few days ago and has since received mostly positive reviews from players, but also quite a few negative ones. These mainly affect the performance of the first person shooter, because Halo: Infinite knows how to convince in terms of play, as the GameStar test shows:
Halo: Infinite im Test
This is how a shooter should play
Halo: Infinite is struggling with FPS drops
The colleagues from Computer base took a closer look at the performance and found that Halo: Infinite’s frame pacing doesn’t work really well. So there are always noticeable drops in performance due to inconsistent frame times. The problem primarily affects systems that are not able to operate the first person shooter with 60 FPS and more. Smaller frame rate drops above 60 FPS are simply not so noticeable.
And that will probably be quite a few computers, as can be seen from the Computerbase benchmarks. To get to 60 FPS in Full HD, you need at least an Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super or an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT.
If you want to play in WQHD, you should at least have an RTX 3070 or RX 6700 XT and even the RTX 3080 is still too little for 4K. You can find out how good your graphics card is in comparison in our clear ranking:
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The best graphics settings from the experts for an FPS boost
For powerful systems
The colleagues from Digital Foundry have therefore taken a closer look at the graphics settings of Halo: Infinite and, in their opinion, worked out the best compromise between display quality and performance – this is what it looks like:
- Anti-Aliasing: High
- Texturfilterung: Ultra
- Texturqualiät: Ultra
- Geometry quality: High
- Reflections: High
- Depth of field: medium
- Shadow quality: High
- Lighting quality: High
- Volumetric fog quality: High
- Cloud quality: High
- Land cover quality: High
- Effect quality: Ultra
- Terrain quality: Ultra
- Async calculations: An
- Resolution scaling: An
How much additional power can be generated with it is questionable. Most likely, however, the resolution scaling should bring.
For less powerful systems
There are a number of other tips online to improve performance and at the same time not to let the display quality suffer too much. They primarily apply to older and less powerful systems:
- Quality preset: Custom
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Texturfilterung: Low
- Surrounding obscuration: Low
- Texture quality: medium
- Geometry quality: Low
- Reflections: Out
- Depth of field: Low
- Shadow quality: medium
- Lighting quality: Low
- Volumetric fog quality: Low
- Cloud quality: Low
- Dynamic wind: Out
- Land cover quality: Low
- Effect quality: Low
- Decal Quality: Low
- Animation quality: Auto
- Terrain quality: medium
- Simulationsqualität: Low
- Flocking quality: Out
- ASync calculation: Out
- Shader quality: Low
General tips for more FPS
It can also be worthwhile to make settings in the graphics card driver in individual cases. In the Nvidia control panel you go under Manage 3D settings -> Program settings and adds Halo: Infinite. Now you can Threaded optimization activate and the Power management mode on Prefer maximum performance set.
In the case of AMD, the options are somewhat more limited. In the menu item Gaming but you can choose Halo: Infinite and that Graphic profile on game change if it is not already preset.
And as always: Install the latest drivers, especially for your graphics card. Because corresponding optimizations for a new game cannot naturally be contained in an older driver.
The test for Halo: Infinite is also available in the form of a video. So lean back, relax and enjoy our impressions:
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Halo Infinite – Test video for the single player campaign
What is your experience with Halo: Infinite? Is your system running smoothly or are you struggling with problems? Do you have a rather powerful or underperforming system? Please write us in the comments. We are excited to see how well Halo is doing for you.
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