Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary PC Performance Review with AMD Ryzen APU Testing

1080p, 1440p and 4K Performance – Dedicated Graphics

If you scroll down this page, you will be able to see something that has left us disappointed in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary’s PC performance. Framerates aren’t as high as we expected, especially at 1080p. 

While our i7-6850K at 4GHz isn’t super high-end by today’s standards, it’s much better than what Microsoft currently offers on any of its consoles. This should leave you to wonder why steady 100 FPS framerates have proven to be so challenging on PC. Yes, this problem will be solved by a 5GHz processor like Intel’s i9-9900K, but isn’t that a little overkill for PC re-release of an almost nine-year-old remaster of a game that almost 19 years old? 

Yes, 60 FPS framerates are easy to achieve here, but things could have been a lot better in this regard. With Halo: Combat Evolved supporting 60 FPS framerates without animation issues, it is a shame that high framerates aren’t that easy to access on mid-range processors. 

Our test area for Halo: Combat Evolved is within the game’s “The Silent Cartographer” mission. 
  

At 1440p, framerates are mostly identical to each of our tested GPU’s 1080p performance, with some graphics cards seeing a minor drop in average framerate. 

At 4K we start to see our lower-end graphics cards struggle, but none of them seeing 99th percentile frameratesdip below 60FPS, which is ideal for playing Halo:CE on a modern television screen.