Halo CE Anniversary Is Pretty Laggy! Is There A Fix To This?

[Corphennicous]

When I am playing the mission: Silent Cartographer the game starts to have random FPS drop even I lowered the in-game settings. My GPU stays at 30% to 40% usage and not even reaching its full horsepower while my CPU is also not doing the heavy workload averaging at 45% to 65% usage most of the time. The temperature of my CPU & GPU are low and not even reaching 80 Celsius. There's no bottleneck I encountered. It's just that my GPU doesn't doing anything like pretty much resting while my CPU does the thing but not also doing its full strength.

What is the meaning of this?! All the missions I've played are doing just fine. But this mission is pretty much suspicious like when you drive to the shore and looking back at the island. That's where the FPS drops like hell. Is there a way to fix this FPS drop?

[ModerNertum]

Does this happen in Halo CE classic as well or is it just in Halo CEA?

[☆Lusori☆]

I feel like the cpu and gpu on all computers that play halo ce anniversary and original run pretty light on the systems. I have had alot of issues with halo ce anniversary with the beach mission and many others, the frame rate can go from 144fps to like 50 fps out of nowhere often.

[☆Lusori☆]

It's a known issue by 343 but they don't fix it for halo ce anniversary or halo 2 anniversary.

[Corphennicous]

That's pathetic. I really don't know how to make my GPU & CPU run even at 70% or 80% to maintain 60 FPS all the time. They're just sitting duck idling like bored geese goofing around the pantry. I did everything I could to make my GPU & CPU run accordingly and appropriately yet... I don't know what to do next. FPS drop is downright absurd because my gaming rig is fully optimized.

[Corphennicous]

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

Does this happen in Halo CE classic as well or is it just in Halo CEA?

Only the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary. The Classic version runs fine.

[Mblaze]

Originally posted by Corphennicous:

When I am playing the mission: Silent Cartographer the game starts to have random FPS drop even I lowered the in-game settings. My GPU stays at 30% to 40% usage and not even reaching its full horsepower while my CPU is also not doing the heavy workload averaging at 45% to 65% usage most of the time. The temperature of my CPU & GPU are low and not even reaching 80 Celsius. There's no bottleneck I encountered. It's just that my GPU doesn't doing anything like pretty much resting while my CPU does the thing but not also doing its full strength.

What is the meaning of this?! All the missions I've played are doing just fine. But this mission is pretty much suspicious like when you drive to the shore and looking back at the island. That's where the FPS drops like hell. Is there a way to fix this FPS drop?

Use Fidelity option. It should improve framerate.

[ModerNertum]

Originally posted by Corphennicous:

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

Does this happen in Halo CE classic as well or is it just in Halo CEA?

Only the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary. The Classic version runs fine.

Sounds like its not the memory leak issue then and an entirely new issue related to Halo CEA instead

[Corphennicous]

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

Originally posted by Corphennicous:

Only the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary. The Classic version runs fine.

Sounds like its not the memory leak issue then and an entirely new issue related to Halo CEA instead

I am not sure about that but perhaps yes. I played Crysis Remastered in medium & high settings with stable 60 FPS. Yet, this remastered version struggles to stay at 60 FPS even in low settings. Weird stuff.

[ModerNertum]

Did you try clearing download cache on Steam as well?

[=IcB=|Whiteboy|]

Halo 2 has been doing that to me. Go from a set 60 fps literally down to 10. Unplayable in some areas.

[Corphennicous]

Originally posted by =IcB=|Whiteboy|:

Halo 2 has been doing that to me. Go from a set 60 fps literally down to 10. Unplayable in some areas.

Yeah I am just going to uninstall this game.

[Corphennicous]

Originally posted by ModerNertum:

Did you try clearing download cache on Steam as well?

I did everything. The sudden FPS drop is questionable.

My gaming laptop specifications:

Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 GDDR5 (stable overclocked)
Memory Ram: 32 GB DDR4 clock at 2666 Mhz
Processor: Intel I5 9300H clock at 2.40 Ghz - 4.10 Ghz
Installed Driver: NVME M.2 500 GB
Operating System: Windows 11 (fully optimized for gaming)

The FPS drop ruins my gaming experience. So I am just going to uninstall this piece of ♥♥♥♥.

[sillylittlecreature]

this happens to me on halo 2 anniversary and on halo reach alot

[Corphennicous]

Originally posted by silly little creature:

this happens to me on halo 2 anniversary and on halo reach alot

Halo: Reach is fine as well as the other campaigns especially the multiplayer. I never encountered such FPS drop. My only concern is the Halo CE Anniversary mission: Silent Cartographer. The random and sudden FPS drop is horrendous and it annoys me a lot. I think the map is bugged or something. The developers don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about fixing the issue.

[Robert F.]

The way the anniversary graphics are showing, it rendered almost the entire layout of the map outside where the player can't see and this eats up a lot of memory to render. This same applied to Halo 2 anniversary since they both run on Saber3D render system.

That's why the classic runs fine without switching the graphics once because there's nothing to rendered at the middle of the island with a bunch of interiors.