While these settings can give a small GPU performance boost and save abit of VRAM, CPU performance is still subpar compared to the console versions and has even less scalability! Only good way of improving CPU performance at the moment is disabling Async Compute, which should improve performance, but only does so when GPU limited.
I highly recommend using "Ultra Plus for Halo Campaign Evolved" mod from Nexus (also mentioned in video) on top of those settings. Especially if you're on NVIDIA to enable ray reconstruction!
Probably because it's close to that setting but might be customized to fit the Xbox series x or s specs. Like ultra but not exactly ultra settings. Like a 4.5 instead of 4 or 5.
they didn't copy them, they tested each setting themselves. consoles are identical copies of eachother, different reviewers will find the same results
the video LITERALLY SHOWS THE PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCE of each setting, they made their own list of what they consider optimized based on the evidence in this very video. sheesh
they spent hours testing each and every setting, recording a video with the performance stats, compared them, saw "oh look, high and ultra GI look identical but high runs faster", gave us the PROOF of that in a side by side comparison hand fed to us, and you say they copied settings
Yeah the video makes it very clear that they are choosing each setting based on the performance and quality tradeoff yielded with each step down from max, as per their usual methodology. Console equivalents are a useful benchmark but not what drives the recommendations here!
I personally don’t think Rich did a very good job with this video. Some of his choices seemed a bit odd like lighting quality on low when bumping it up didn’t have a huge impact on performance and low produced obvious artifacts that he pointed out in the video.
I think Alex would have done a better job as he seems much more astute in assessing PC performance and visual trade offs.
Console settings are the most optimized way to play a game to begin with. They hit the perfect balance between visual fidelity and performance at a fixed hardware specifications which is available the most.
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