Constant Co-Op disconnections?

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Bought this to play co-op with my husband but so far we've been experiencing multiple crashes where the co-op will disconnect and my game will freeze, forcing me to close it through task manager. - Husband hasn't had his game crash, it's just mine, he's always the host since his netcode is better.

We've tried fixing our NAT issues through the Windows Xbox gaming settings, tried halting other background processes, and tried playing without EAC enabled, still getting drop-outs. We've only managed to make it past the intro mission in Halo: CE and we had another drop-out less than a minute into the second one.

I looked it up and apparently these issues have existed since 2021 with nobody sure of if/when/how to fix it. Is this still an issue? Any potential fixes? Would love to know what's happening.

[Seda]

I (in South Australia) and a friend from another state of Australia were able to stabilise it with the following;

- Ensuring Moderate or Open NAT in the Xbox Companion App
- Limiting to 60fps, console style*
- In the Quarantine mission, do not drive the Scorpion tank.

*Even if his system is awesome, he should do this to. You want both of your rigs to render at roughly the same value. Because... I don't know. Reasons? The networking code is awesome.

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Originally posted by Seda:

I (in South Australia) and a friend from another state of Australia were able to stabilise it with the following;

- Ensuring Moderate or Open NAT in the Xbox Companion App
- Limiting to 60fps, console style*
- In the Quarantine mission, do not drive the Scorpion tank.

*Even if his system is awesome, he should do this to. You want both of your rigs to render at roughly the same value. Because... I don't know. Reasons? The networking code is awesome.

We've both got our FPS locked to 60 and have Moderate NAT in our companion app, haven't even made it up to Quarantine yet. Keep getting crashes in the earlier missions.

[StrobaCat]

what halo game are you guys playing in? halo ce is kinda unstable
halo 2 is extremely unstable
and halo 3 (and odst) is very stable with the only issue being input lag

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Originally posted by StrobaCat:

what halo game are you guys playing in? halo ce is kinda unstable
halo 2 is extremely unstable
and halo 3 (and odst) is very stable with the only issue being input lag

Our goal was to play in release order, starting with CE and working our way up the line as a nostalgia trip since we were both Halo kids back in the day. Might just need to tough through the crashes and see if we can't fudge our FPS.

Should we disable V-Sync? Not sure if that would help.

[StrobaCat]

Originally posted by rook:

Originally posted by StrobaCat:

what halo game are you guys playing in? halo ce is kinda unstable
halo 2 is extremely unstable
and halo 3 (and odst) is very stable with the only issue being input lag

Our goal was to play in release order, starting with CE and working our way up the line as a nostalgia trip since we were both Halo kids back in the day. Might just need to tough through the crashes and see if we can't fudge our FPS.

Should we disable V-Sync? Not sure if that would help.

question, do you experience these crashes in-game or is just upon loading a mission?
if is in-game maybe is gotta be with the CE memory leak on AMD gpus
if is while loading a mission probably is because one of you has a faster load time than the other, so it fails to connect you both

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Originally posted by StrobaCat:

Originally posted by rook:

Our goal was to play in release order, starting with CE and working our way up the line as a nostalgia trip since we were both Halo kids back in the day. Might just need to tough through the crashes and see if we can't fudge our FPS.

Should we disable V-Sync? Not sure if that would help.

question, do you experience these crashes in-game or is just upon loading a mission?
if is in-game maybe is gotta be with the CE memory leak on AMD gpus
if is while loading a mission probably is because one of you has a faster load time than the other, so it fails to connect you both

It's been in-game and I do have an AMD gpu in my system. Is there a fix for the memory leak issue?

[StrobaCat]

Originally posted by rook:

Originally posted by StrobaCat:

question, do you experience these crashes in-game or is just upon loading a mission?
if is in-game maybe is gotta be with the CE memory leak on AMD gpus
if is while loading a mission probably is because one of you has a faster load time than the other, so it fails to connect you both

It's been in-game and I do have an AMD gpu in my system. Is there a fix for the memory leak issue?

there is one though and thats to downgrade your driver, otherwise avoid playing on anniversary graphics since they seem to cause the crash (play on classic graphics and you shouldnt have such problems)

also, that memory leak is been in the game since 6 months and 343 hasnt bothered to fix it

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Originally posted by StrobaCat:

Originally posted by rook:

It's been in-game and I do have an AMD gpu in my system. Is there a fix for the memory leak issue?

there is one though and thats to downgrade your driver, otherwise avoid playing on anniversary graphics since they seem to cause the crash (play on classic graphics and you shouldnt have such problems)

also, that memory leak is been in the game since 6 months and 343 hasnt bothered to fix it

Welp, sounds like I'll be playing CE in the Intended manner, haha, thanks for the heads up!

[StrobaCat]

Originally posted by rook:

Originally posted by StrobaCat:

there is one though and thats to downgrade your driver, otherwise avoid playing on anniversary graphics since they seem to cause the crash (play on classic graphics and you shouldnt have such problems)

also, that memory leak is been in the game since 6 months and 343 hasnt bothered to fix it

Welp, sounds like I'll be playing CE in the Intended manner, haha, thanks for the heads up!

np man 343 not fixing these issues is just laughable