Fixes & Known Issues

Affected drivers: 610.47, 610.62, 610.74. Official fix: install NVIDIA hotfix driver 610.82 (manual download - it does not appear in the NVIDIA App), or roll back to 596.49.

Community note: 610.82 only targets 50-series. Some RTX 40-series owners with the same crash report success using DDU and rolling back to 596.49 instead.

Official workaround: XeSS frame generation + an in-game framerate cap causes the image to freeze. Either pair frame generation with DLSS/FSR/TSR instead, turn frame generation off when using XeSS, or remove the framerate cap.

Official workaround: crashes when skipping the opening cinematic with FSR enabled. Switch to DLSS/XeSS/TSR or roll back to driver 26.6.1.

Official workaround: launching HaloCampaignEvolved.exe directly fails to connect to Steam and causes severe performance problems. Always launch from your Steam library.

UE5 pre-compiles shaders on first boot; a long "loading shaders" step is normal. If it hangs: update your GPU driver (this clears the old cache), verify game files, and only delete the shader cache if it appears corrupted. Disabling in-game VSync and hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling helps some systems (community-reported).

Related to the known Intel microcode issue on systems with outdated BIOS. Official advice: update your motherboard BIOS.

Community Engine.ini tweaks (in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Meteorite\Saved\Config\Windows\): disable film grain, chromatic aberration, and mouse smoothing/acceleration; set r.UseLegacyMaintainYFOVViewMatrix=True to widen horizontal FOV on ultrawide. Save the file as read-only. Also turn off motion blur in-game.

Official workaround:destroying the Banshee after the first pulse generator can make the mission impossible to finish. Don't destroy it - a Banshee spawns again at the bridge.

Official workaround:cutscenes stutter when the display refresh rate is not a multiple of 30Hz - use 60/120/240Hz, enable your TV's Game Mode, or disable VRR. Pausing during a cutscene can cause brief audio desync (acknowledged, no fix yet). Audio crackling in The Truth and Reconciliation is also acknowledged.

Community fixes: if the sign-in window freezes, close and restart the game. On PS5, unlink and relink your PSN ↔ Microsoft account. On PC, clear old Xbox credentials in Windows Credential Manager (community-reported).

If anyonein a co-op session enables Difficulty Modifiers, 11 advanced achievements (including "Living Legend") are disabled for the whole fireteam. This is by design, not a bug - everyone must turn modifiers off to earn them. Waypoint markers advancing only after the whole fireteam passes is also intended behavior.

The game shipped Steam Deck Verifiedand Windows handhelds carry the "Handheld Optimized" badge. Early community feedback disputes real-world performance at those settings; early testing suggests a 30 FPS cap with reduced resolution scale (~70%) as a starting point (community-reported - we'll update with tested settings).