Halo Infinite Technical Preview Runs at 100 FPS or Higher on Xbox Series X|S - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 August 2021 / 3,749 Views
The first Halo Infinite Technical Preview is currently underway. It is being used by developer 343 Industries to discover new issues with the multiplayer, fix bugs, and to get player feedback to make changes before the game officially launches this holiday season.
YouTube channel ElAnalistaDaBits has put the technical preview through some testing to see how well it is running. The game on the Xbox Series X and Xbox One X will have a Quality and Performance mode at launch, however, this isn't present in the Technical Preview.
The Halo Infinite Technical Preview on Xbox Series X targets 4k and 120fps, Xbox Series S 1080p and 120fps, Xbox One X 4K and 30fps, and Xbox One 1080p and 30fp.
The game on the Xbox Series X currently struggles to maintain 4k and 120fps with it running around 120 fps most of the time with dips as low as 90fps. On Xbox Series S is runs at a mostly solid 120fps with a drop of a frame or two once in a while.
The game on the Xbox One X is able to maintain 30fps, while on the base Xbox One mainly sticks to 30fps, with the occasional drop in frames.
The frame rate issues are expected to be fixed by launch with more optimization and the use of dynamic resolution. The build version of the Technical Preview is a couple of months old.
Halo Infinite will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC in Holiday 2021.
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Series S is a pretty badass system to achieve such numbers and still look the goods.
I assume the latent and currently unused "Quality vs. Performance" option will be a toggle of 120fps to 60fps with extra eyecandy for for the S/X. Maybe a boost to 1440p for the series S @60fps. Judging by the comparison to PC ultra settings there isn't that many more obvious settings to turn up, but i'm sure we can get draw distances and some better filtering, ambient occlusion etc.
The most interesting thing here is base the Xbox One. It's actually got a really crisp image. With a 1080p output, I smell a CPU bottleneck.
I don't disagree about the FPS vs. graphics tradeoff. However, we have to keep in mind that this game is intended to remain current for a while (especially the multiplayer). As time goes by, more and more gamers will have screens capable of displaying 120fps content. So, they may be taking a longer term view here.
To be fair, 343i intended Halo 5 to "last all generation" and sell it as a micro-transaction filled "game as a service". - And let's be honest, it didn't hold up all generation.
There are new games releasing all the time and it's easy for older games to fall into obscurity.
I came across that same issue with Doom Eternal on the Series X. At least there’s the fall back that if the Series X mode is dipping from 120 FPS to 90 FPS, then have it fixed to 60 FPS shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
I am presuming that the Graphics vs. Quality option which currently doesn't do anything will toggle 60fps Quality vs 120fps performance. I can't see what else it could possibly do, so us 60Hz peasants can get the eyecandy :)
