Halo Campaign Evolved: Performance Struggles on Next-gen Hardware

WHO:

Pure Xbox - Digital Foundry is involved in testing the game.

Wccftech - Content creator Jackfrags provided a preview of the game.

WHAT:

Pure Xbox - Halo: Campaign Evolved is running at a stable 60FPS in performance mode on Xbox Series X.

Pure Xbox - The game uses dynamic resolution scaling, averaging around 50-75% of the output resolution, often at 1080p.

Wccftech - The game runs in the 90 to 100 FPS range on a system with an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU at 1440p resolution and Ultra settings.

Wccftech - The official system requirements list an NVIDIA RTX 4080 GPU and 32 GB RAM for 4K at 60 FPS on Ultra settings.

WHERE:

Pure Xbox - The game is being tested on Xbox Series X and PC, including the ROG Xbox Ally X.

Wccftech - The preview build was tested on a system powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 3D CPU.

WHEN:

Pure Xbox - The early access release of Halo: Campaign Evolved is scheduled for July 23rd.

Wccftech - The game's launch is set for July 28th.

WHY:

Wccftech - The game has transitioned from the Slipspace Engine to Unreal Engine 5, which has raised skepticism regarding performance.

HOW:

Pure Xbox - The game employs two levels of dynamic resolution scaling to maintain performance.

Wccftech - The game utilizes NVIDIA DLAA (Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing) without upscaling to achieve its performance metrics.

(UPDATED June 12, 2026 12:09 UTC)

Halo: Campaign Evolved is set to launch on July 28th, with early access available starting July 23rd, and it has been tested on both Xbox Series X and PC, including the ROG Xbox Ally X. The game runs at a stable 60 frames per second in performance mode on Xbox Series X and reaches between 90 to 100 frames per second on systems equipped with an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU at 1440p resolution. Utilizing Unreal Engine 5, the game features dynamic resolution scaling and NVIDIA DLAA to enhance performance, though this transition has sparked some skepticism about its overall performance.