Xbox Game Studios and Halo Studios’ first-person shooter, Halo: Campaign Evolved, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Halo: Campaign Evolved, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Halo: Campaign Evolved Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
VIDEO SETTINGS
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Frame Rate Limit: set to max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Display Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: s per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Resolution Scale: 100%
- Upscaling Technique: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Effects Quality: High (or Ultra, if headroom is available)
- Geometric Quality: High (or Ultra, if headroom is available)
- Global Illumination: High
- Lighting Quality: High
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Reflections: High
- Atmospheric Quality: Medium (or High, if headroom is available)
- Post-Process Quality: High
- Motion Blur: as per preference
- Async Compute: On
How Does Halo: Campaign Evolved Run On Steam Deck?
VIDEO SETTINGS
- VSync: Off
- Frame Rate Limit: 30
- Display Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Resolution Scale: 70%
- Effects Quality: Very Low
- Geometric Quality: Very Low
- Global Illumination: Very Low
- Lighting Quality: Very Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Reflections: Very Low
- Atmospheric Quality: Very Low
- Post-Process Quality: Very Low
- Motion Blur: On
- Async Compute: On
As seen in the above video, Halo: Campaign Evolved often dips below the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings. That said, it is able to run at or close to the target for the most part. As such, we consider the game to be barely playable on Valve’s handheld device.
