Halo: Campaign Evolved is a ground-up remake of 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 with three new missions featuring Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson. It launches on July 28, 2026 for Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5, and the PC build scales across four performance tiers running from older last-generation cards up to current high-end hardware.
Quick answer: To run the game at 1080p and 60 FPS on Low, you need an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or Intel Core i7-10700K, 16GB of RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super, AMD Radeon RX 6600, or Intel Arc A580 with 8GB of VRAM, and 100GB of free SSD space on Windows 10 22H2 (64-bit) or Windows 11.
Halo: Campaign Evolved PC requirements (all four tiers)
Halo Studios published a single grid that maps each preset to a target resolution and frame rate. Every tier aims for 60 FPS, with the difference being resolution and visual quality. Note that the storage demand never drops below 100GB on an SSD, and a spinning hard drive is not part of the baseline.
| Preset | Low (Minimum) 1080p 60 FPS | Medium 1440p 60 FPS | High (Recommended) 4K 60 FPS | Ultra 4K 60 FPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel Core i7-10700K | AMD Ryzen 7 5700X / Intel Core i5-12600K | AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / Intel Core i7-12700K | AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Intel Core i9-13900K |
| GPU | RTX 2060 Super / RX 6600 / Intel Arc A580 | RTX 3070 / RX 7600 XT | RTX 3080 Ti / RX 9070 | RTX 4080 |
| RAM | 16GB | 16GB | 32GB | 32GB |
| VRAM | 8GB | 8GB | 12GB | 16GB |
| OS | Windows 10 22H2 / Windows 11 (64-bit) | Windows 10 22H2 / Windows 11 (64-bit) | Windows 10 22H2 / Windows 11 (64-bit) | Windows 10 22H2 / Windows 11 (64-bit) |
| Storage | 100GB SSD | 100GB SSD | 100GB SSD | 100GB SSD |
Resizable BAR (ReBAR) is listed as recommended across every tier. If your motherboard and GPU support it, enabling it in the BIOS can help the game stream assets more efficiently.
Minimum requirements for 1080p 60 FPS
The floor is forgiving enough to take in plenty of five- and six-year-old hardware. A Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i7-10700K paired with an RTX 2060 Super, Radeon RX 6600, or Arc A580 hits the Low target. Worth noting, the Intel Arc A580 only appears on the minimum tier and is not listed for higher presets.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel Core i7-10700K
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super / AMD Radeon RX 6600 / Intel Arc A580
- RAM: 16GB
- VRAM: 8GB
- Storage: 100GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10 22H2 (64-bit) or Windows 11
Recommended requirements for 4K 60 FPS
The High preset is marked as the recommended target, and it pushes to 4K at 60 FPS. This is where the memory jump bites, since you move from 16GB to 32GB of system RAM and from 8GB to 12GB of VRAM.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / Intel Core i7-12700K
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 9070
- RAM: 32GB
- VRAM: 12GB
- Storage: 100GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10 22H2 (64-bit) or Windows 11
If you want to max everything out, the Ultra preset still targets 4K 60 FPS but raises the bar to a Ryzen 9 7900X or Core i9-13900K, an RTX 4080, and 16GB of VRAM. The center of gravity for the spec sheet sits at 1440p and 4K rather than 1080p.
Storage, operating system, and ray tracing notes
The install footprint is a flat 100GB on an SSD regardless of which preset you play at. The game runs on Windows 10 22H2 (64-bit) or Windows 11, so Windows 10 holdouts are still supported for this release. Ray tracing is part of the Unreal Engine 5 pipeline, and the store page confirms the game uses it, though the exact scope of those effects has not been detailed.
The spec grid does not call out DLSS, FSR, or XeSS. Those upscalers, if present, could lift performance on lower-tier cards and ease the jump to recommended settings, but the published targets describe the hardware class rather than the upscaling method behind each resolution.
Microsoft account requirement
A Microsoft account and an Xbox gamertag are required to play Halo: Campaign Evolved on every platform, including Steam and PS5. This account layer ties cross-play, cross-progression, and achievements together regardless of where you buy the game. Local players in split-screen each need the relevant platform plus a linked Microsoft account.
How to confirm your PC can run it
For an Unreal Engine 5 title chasing high fidelity, the CPU and GPU asks are reasonable, and the minimum tier keeps the door open for older rigs at 1080p. The bigger commitments are the 32GB of RAM for 4K presets and the 100GB SSD that every player has to clear before launch day.
