First, a huge thank you to everyone who jumped in and played on launch day (and Early Access!). We appreciate your excitement, your feedback, and your patience.
While we have made some improvements (listed below), we would like to remind you to continue to submit tickets for any issues you encounter to Halo Support directly. This is the best (and fastest) way to surface issues to the team so they can look into things.
And now, the updates:
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Stability has been improved when watching or skipping the introduction cinematic in the mission The Maw while FSR is turned on with AMD graphics cards using driver versions 26.6.2 or 26.6.4
All PC versions now display a warning when Halo: Campaign Evolved is launched with an AMD or NVIDIA GPU driver version that has known issues.
XBOX Gamertags now display throughout the account linking process for Steam players
General stability improvements for the mission Pillar of Autumn
Jackals in the hanger hallway of The Truth and Reconciliation now actively patrol instead of remaining idle
On Assault on the Control Room, Spec Ops Elites near Rally Point Delta now engage the player as intended
On Assault on the Control Room, enemies no longer walk into the Control Room exterior
The Hunter pair now consistently engages the player after approaching the cartographer’s entrance on The Silent Cartographer
A charged Plasma Pistol shot no longer kills players who have full health and shields on any difficulty
Performance improvements have been made to reduce hitching for players with large friends lists
The following list contains some of the high-impact known issues for the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved:
Cinematics may occasionally stutter during playback if the display refresh rate is not an even multiple of 30 Hz
Workaround: If possible, set your display refresh rate to a multiple of 30 Hz (such as 60 Hz, 120 Hz, or 240hz), turn on Game Mode on your TV if available, or turn off Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), as it may contribute to cinematic stuttering on some setups
Audio and video may become out of sync, and the cinematic can briefly freeze, if the game is paused and then resumed during a cinematic.
Navigation markers do not progress until everyone in the Fireteam passes them.
After the first generator in Two Betrayals, players will be unable to progress if they destroy the banshee.
While playing The Truth and Reconciliation, you may hear brief popping or stuttering of audio during gameplay.
Launching Halo: Campaign Evolved directly from the HaloCampaignEvolved.exe file in the Steam installation folder may cause the game to launch without connecting to Steam. When this occurs, you may be unable to sign in, experience severe performance issues, or encounter a game freeze that requires the application to be closed through Task Manager.
Workaround: Launch Halo: Campaign Evolved directly from the Steam library within the Steam app itself
Some Intel 13th and 14th generation processors may crash on launch due to a pre-existing Intel microcode issue that can prevent affected systems from successfully starting certain applications
Players who have not updated their BIOS recently may be affected. If the game closes or crashes before reaching the splash screen, install the latest BIOS update available from your system or motherboard manufacturer
AMD graphics cards may crash when using high refresh rate displays if VSync is turned on and the maximum frame rate is set to 30
Workaround: Raise the maximum frame rate limit, or disable VSync
Players using the Low upscaling quality option for DLSS upscaling may notice visual grain, haze, or oversized lens flares when using Low graphics quality settings
NVIDIA RTX 50 series graphics cards may crash on missions Keyes and The Maw when using driver versions 610.47, 610.62, and 610.74
Workaround: Update your NVIDIA driver to 610.82, or rollback to 596.49.
Turning on XeSS Frame Generation while an in-game maximum frame rate limit is set can cause the game to become visually frozen, with only occasional frame updates
Workaround: Use FSR or DLSS with Frame Generation instead of XeSS, turn off Frame Generation when using XeSS, or remove the in-game maximum frame rate limit.
Using Frame Generation with XeSS upscaling may cause graphical issues and limit frame rates during cinematics
Workaround: Use Frame Generation with DLSS or FSR, or disable Frame Generation while using XeSS
If you experience an issue not listed here, report it through Halo Support using our Game Issue Report Form.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Player feedback is critical. Report issues through Halo Support using our Game Issue Report Form
If you have problems with your account, Microsoft Support can help you
If you experience a problem in Steam that is not an in-game issue, please contact Steam Support