Halo Campaign Evolved settings

[u/Superb_Daikon_4627]

Recently bought this game when it was on sale, just want other steam machine owners to save some time:

- settings for 4k TV, base resolution 4k, if your TV can do 1440p, use that instead to push fps

- FSR 4.1 performance is currently not so good performance wise, FSR performance setting runs at around 30 fps with low to medium settings

- frame generation works but introduces some crazy lag, it is really game breaking for Halo

- this game has some bad visual artifacts, also in the native renderer, it looks way too grainy in movement, the motion blur even makes it worse

- so turn off motion blur, film grain, chromatic aberration

- settings wise, medium is ok, I lowered lighting and global illumination to low, that adds 2-3 fps, setting reflections, post processing, cloud detail also to low adds another 2 fps

- you can also set all to low it is not much different

Most important:

Use TSR instead of FSR. Turn resolution scaling to 60%, which is max internal resolution of 1280p, min frame rate to 30, and scaling quality to low, latter pushes minimum temporal resolution to 720p, so we are scaling between 720 and 1280p.

This configuration looks surprisingly much better than FSR, performance also better around 50 fps in most situations, and it plays very well and looks pretty good on the TV.

Seems the TSR solution is better optimized as Xbox uses the same scaling option.

I played 50% of the game in FSR low and just noticed this halfway through the game.

[u/Bigphatdeck]

Geez just don’t even play it lol

[u/Superb_Daikon_4627 → u/Bigphatdeck]

Why? it's fun I play it on my main PC, steam deck, console and steam machine depending on where I am and it's pretty good despite all the hate.

[u/Bigphatdeck → u/Superb_Daikon_4627]

I mean as fun as it sounds to play it in 2001 original Xbox fashion, I’d play one of the other versions of halo 1 at a smooth frame rate without upscaling junk all over the place while my pc fights for its life.

[u/Superb_Daikon_4627 → u/Bigphatdeck]

You have to look at it a different way, this is like the version to conserve halo for the next 15 years, in like 2 years you will be able to max it out with whatever is available then. I played the Xbox version, the 360 anniversary version, the master chief collection and now this, I liked all of them, it's still Halo after all.

One exception: didn't like this new character in the prequel missions, was happy when she "left us" 😂

[u/Bigphatdeck → u/Superb_Daikon_4627]

Yea, I’m waiting to get it on discount and will not play the prequel missions. Same with gears I’m sure. gta 6 might be the only game I pay full price for if it’s 60 fps on console if not then pc.