The skepticism surrounding Halo: Campaign Evolved for its ditching of the Slipspace Engine in favor of the Unreal Engine 5 for its return to PC , PlayStation 5 , and Xbox Series X|S seems to have been well-founded , as an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, the best consumer GPU available , doesn't hit the high framerates one would expect at 1440p resolution .

In a new video preview shared on YouTube, content creator Jackfrags showed a preview build running on a system powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 3D CPU and the aforementioned RTX 5090 at 1440p resolution and Ultra settings with NVIDIA DLAA ( Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing ), so no upscaling was involved. Generally, the game runs in the 90 to 100 FPS range , hitting 120 FPS only in closed interiors , which is far lower than one might have expected from the best GPU on the market , though things could improve in time for the game's July 28 launch .

The information provided by Jackfrags puts the Halo: Campaign Evolved system requirements into perspective. Although the official requirements list an NVIDIA RTX 4080 GPU and 32 GB RAM for 4K at 60 FPS on Ultra settings , upscaling technologies like DLSS , AMD FSR , or Intel XeSS will likely be required to hit this resolution and frame rate target . As such, those playing on lower-end hardware will likely have to drop down settings considerably , use more aggressive upscaling and frame generation to enjoy the game at high frame rates .

Potentially disappointing performance isn't the only thing that could have a major impact on Halo: Campaign Evolved . Former Bungie veteran Niles Sankey highlighted how the visuals the Epic engine usually produces can gut tactical readability, one of the core elements of the original.

As games like Halo: Campaign Evolved are shipping on older versions of Unreal Engine 5 , they cannot take advantage of new developments , such as the new Lumen mode introduced in Unreal Engine 5.8 targeting 60 FPS even on low-spec hardware such as handhelds like the Nintendo Switch 2 . Hopefully, this and any future engine development will address the one issue that made the engine synonymous with bad performance and stuttering .

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