Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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This is the first Halo game built on Unreal Engine 5—the series historically ran on Bungie's and 343's in-house Blam/Slipspace engines. With a modern engine needed, it makes a lot of sense that Halo Studios leaned on UE5, supporting Lumen for dynamic global illumination and Nanite for virtualized geometry. As expected, the only rendering API supported is DirectX 12. Lighting is handled by Unreal Engine 5's Lumen, and there is no in-game option to disable it or toggle between software and hardware ray tracing. The upscaling support is very complete: NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS are all present, and each vendor also gets frame generation. Low-latency modes are covered for everyone too—NVIDIA Reflex, AMD Anti-Lag and Intel XeLL. Ultra-wide 21:9 is supported and there's an adjustable field-of-view slider. One caveat: Intel XeSS is only available in the Steam version, not in the Xbox app/Microsoft Store build.

techpowerup.com/review/halo-campaign-evolved-performance-benchmark

Intro: 0:00 - 0:09
VRAM & Settings: 0:09 - 0:45
Performance: 0:45 - 1:59
Upscaling: 1:59 - 2:38
Outro: 2:38 - 3:02

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