Infinite won't load

[Thes]

Infinite's menu is infamous for being sluggish, but it still eventually worked. But since the day season 2 started my game will either load indefinitely, never getting into the main menu, or in the rare cases that it does (usually after 5+ minutes of loading) no options (customisation, multiplayer, etc.) will work.

Nothing has changed with my PC or my internet connection and I do not believe that it's a coincidence that the problem started occurring the day such a big update rolled out. Reinstalling and verifying the game files has not worked.

Does anyone else have this problem and/or knows a solution?

[Loot Wizard]

I'm having the same issue, still just getting "lobby service unavailable"

[Norseman_117]

any fix you found?

[Thes]

Nope, sadly not

[Antiga]

Randomly the game will act in such ways for me. A loading screen that should take 5 seconds takes minutes. Or it'll randomly decide shaders must be decompiled once more, even though they already are. Or the whole service just stops working leaving you unable to play with your friends.
Whenever any other game has issues, and one might think to come here meantime to "wait it out", this game will have the same issues, making it not even viable as a shoddy backup.

[Norseman_117]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gamers, I might have just figured it out... Who here as a logitech or a 7.1 headphones?

[Thes]

No, I do have a logitech keyboard, though. Why, what did you find?

[Norseman_117]

Originally posted by Thes:

No, I do have a logitech keyboard, though. Why, what did you find?

That could be it too! So, it seems that halo for some reason is no longer getting along with 7.1 headphones or 3 party apps for peripherals. I upgraded to windows 11 and it reset my settings I had for sound. I started having issues with hearing audio from behind again when I tried to test run some other fixes I was doing in halo. It bugged me so much because I fixed it before but I forgot how. I had the Logitech Ghub app for my Pro x wireless headset. I will send a link to what helped me do the correct steps, but it seems that once I changed my headphones from 7.1 to stereo in the sound calibration, it disabled ghub from detecting my headset but when I played halo, I no longer crashed and I also had audio from behind me again. Like I said I’ll get the link here when I’m back home for everyone that wants to see if it will work for them!

[Norseman_117]

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