Halo Freezing up (Performance Question)

[kach474]

Hello, 

I am new to PC gaming so bear with me. I just got the Ally and installed Halo Master Chief collection. Started playing Halo 1 and it plays well for the first 10-15 minutes then it gets jittery and then freezes completely and crashes. I have done all the updates, windows, drivers, Armory Crate, and BIOS. I adjusted the power settings to max (Plugged in) and graphics down. I also allocated 8GB of VRAM, and the game is running off the hard drive. When I did that the game loads allot faster and played better but after 20 minutes or so froze again. I read that this can play new console level games so I figured this would be fine. Am I expecting to much from this machine or am I missing something? 

Thanks All

[corrosivedeath]

Just tried to play myself and the same issues, its unplayable for me. Dont understand how I can play the heck out of diablo 4 but this wont run lol

[kach474]

I hear others playing large resource games with no issues. I wonder if it has something to do with it being part of a very large downloaded game with several games included. The games appear to all run as one and not separate games? But just a guess I'm no expert. Mine is playable but for only about 10-15 minutes. Then it crashes. 

[corrosivedeath]

I fixed my issue, turn off 120Hz and run it @ 60Hz. It runs @ a locked 60fps no lag at all.

[kach474]

I have been at 60Hz still freezing and crashing. Glad yours is working. 

[kach474]

Wait? You mentioned locked? Did you turn on the FPS limiter to 60? Is that what you mean by locked? 

[kach474 · Accepted solution]

Thank you. "Corrosivedeath" locked the FPS to 60 with the limiter. Played over an hour running smoothly. Thanks! 

[Vindicated]

I found that if you push the top left white button with the double squares, it toggles the high def graphics on and off.  When turned off, I did not have issues with the game freezing

I also just saw that Steam released an update on July 12th, one of the things they fixed:

"Resolved a memory leak in Halo: Combat Evolved Campaign missions".  This may have been part of the issue we were having.

I have not played it since the 7th, so I'll have to make sure it's updated and see if that solved any issues.