343 Industries has recently released a new patch for Halo: Infinite that prevents PC gamers of specific GPUs to launch it. So, if you have a GPU that has less than 4GB of VRAM, you should know that you can no longer play the game. Yes, even if previously you were able to, the game’s latest update will prevent you from even starting it.
In theory, owners of the GTX1060 3GB will be the ones that will mainly experience this issue. After all, that particular GPU is more powerful than the minimum required GPU that 343 Industries has listed.
Now in case you haven’t been paying attention, Halo: Infinite’s recent update also added the promised ray-traced shadows. Unfortunately, though, these RT shadows are as underwhelming as they can get.
Anyway, this is mainly a PSA to let you know about this restriction. So, before purchasing its single-player campaign, you should make sure that your GPU has enough VRAM!
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What the hell.
Halo infinite barely have a decent playerbase. Now they are getting rid off more players. Way to go, genius move by 343 industries
On a more positive note Microsoft are laying off large numbers of staff at 343 Industries.
Seems like a trend in every tech company nowadays.
Revenue in the tech sector has dropped a lot. It’s no surprise that lay offs are happening.
Have these guys made anything of note? For a game company that has been around since 2007 I have a hard time recalling any game that they have made.
Not really.
PC port is by Splash Damage ;/
That is beyond studid. Like COH 3 blocking anyone with VRAM below 16GB to play with the highest quality textures, eventhough my 12GB gpu can run them just fine.
Stop juding what VRAM can possibly do developers, you obviously suck at it.
Amd sponsored title, amd knows its their only advantage over nvidia(nvidia series 3000 vs amd 6000)are that they have more vram so they make sure the game they sponsor bloat vram usage on max textures settings.
That’s a seriously deranged take. Except for raytracing the 6000 series was better than the equivalenty priced 3000 series in every way.
Sorry you are right let me rephrase that to the “biggest advantage”
So I guess that’s why the latest season is 100% Borked on the Steam Deck. I mean, I have boosted the VRAM in the Bios to 4 gigs, but still nothing works.
Nice to see another fellow around here!
And no, the latest season is borked on the stable branch of Proton because 343 has changed the DX12 implementation yet again.
In particular:
“Implement ExecuteIndirect multi-dispatch indirect with state changes”
BTW, here’s the commit comment by the developer who implemented this feature:
“Works around Halo Infinite using even more esoteric D3D12 features.
The game sure likes to troll us … :’)”
Anyway, it’s already fixed by “GE-Proton7-51”, so just google it & add it to your Steam Deck, and Halo Infinite works again.
Oh sweet, thanks fellow Linux Gamer! You saved the day.
They get paid to make you upgrade because hardware sales are in a slump. It’s why most ports are bad. So you need to buy more expensive. Never buy games. Get all hardware used. F jews
Lmao are you serious ? Even my old 2015 laptop has 8 gb graphics card.
And what gpu is that ? Only mobile gpus from 2015 that has 8GB VRAM are 980m and 880m.
That is bizarre, so the desktop 980 only had 4 GB of RAM, but the laptop versions 8 GB.
I didn’t know the desktop versions only had 4 gigs, just as you said it’s really bizarre that the mobile versions had more vram than the desktop counterparts.
yup i have a secondary use PC msi dominator with gtx980m 8gb gpu
The most braindead take I’ve ever read. Literally every live service game proved that software sells way more than hardware. People will buy better hardware regardless.
Uh, do you even English? Headline written by a 4 year old. No, just a moron.
“do you even English?” …. sounds like you are talking to yourself and you just aren’t aware how poor your own English is
Ironic since i can’t understand the point you are trying to make and you write like a brat.
All you needed to do was to politely state that the title should say “… VRAM from playing the game” to be in good English.
Min spec are 1050 ti and rx 570 both 4gb vram cards. I don’t see the problem here
The problem is, 1060 3GB is more powerful than 1050Ti…
That s ngreedia s doing
Minimum specs are just ballpark estimations of what hardware the developer ‘guarantees’ can run the game in a playable state. Doesn’t mean anything below won’t run the game (it just won’t run well enough to be deemed playable). For example, 1050 2GB can run the game at low settings 1080p@30 FPS.
Exactly. My card (970 GTX) is below minimum spec for Elden Ring, but it plays it well enough. I don’t keep an FPS meter up but I never had any issues with stuttering or lag. On the other side of the coin, Cyberjank was borderline unplayable and it’s above the minimum specs for that piece of trash.
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Seems like 1060 3gb should’ve had more vram to match the power of the core
There was already a 1060 with 6 GB VRAM planned and the 3 GB 1060 had 11% less cores as well.
Ah, yes, “modern gaming”. Where the game you “buy” today, is not the game you’re “renting” tomorrow.
Well done, MS, and you wonder why people cringe at you taking over Activision. ?
Ah, yes, “modern gaming”. Where the game you “buy” today, is not the game you’re “renting” tomorrow.
Well done, MS, and you wonder why people cringe at you taking over Activision. ?
M$ be like:
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M$ be like:
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There was a 6GB version of the GTX1060 available back then, for around $50 more. I remember when virtually everyone said that the extra 3GB was not worth it. I guess it was now if you want to play this game lol.
The 6 GB version also had 11% more cores than the 3 GB version.
I wonder how the GTX 970 fares? Technically it has 4 GB VRAM.
The game stopped rendering properly on my GTX 1650, and that gpu 4GB VRAM.
former halo fan here…right around or near the exact moment 343 touched halo it turned to sh*t in my eyes…best thing MS can do is strip these fools of anything to do with ANYTHING to do with halo.
Wow, I got lucky. I have gtx 1050ti 4Gb
How is this possible,1060 is newer and more powerful than 1050ti?
Wow, I got lucky. I have gtx 1050ti 4Gb
How is this possible,1060 is newer and more powerful than 1050ti?