Unfortunately, the new Halo titles are one of the biggest draws for the Xbox, and the likelihood we’ll see a current Halo game on PC again any time soon, with the possible exception of the Master Chief Collection, is a long shot.
PC fans have been clamoring for a Halo game since Combat Evolved, and the few iterations that have seen the computer only served to raise excitement. That’s no big deal if you’re playing Madden by yourself, but take an FPS online and you might find yourself shooting where the enemy used to be more often than not. There’s also a slight delay from your input to a change on the screen. Gameplay was mostly smooth, with a few frame skips here and there, but nothing that would keep the experience from mirroring what you’d find on the Xbox itself.
The streaming service delivers solid performance. If you want to play Halo on your PC, the Xbox app is the best option. You can connect your Xbox One controller to the PC via USB, or leave it connected wirelessly to the console – if you’re close enough. Connecting your Xbox One and Windows 10 computer is as easy as making sure they’re on the same network, flipping a switch in the Xbox preferences to turn on streaming, and opening the Xbox app on your computer. The closest you’ll ever get to Halo on a PCĮven in its early stages, Xbox streaming to Windows 10 is easy to set up, though settings are limited. It even works with Steam games, and other applications that don’t run through the Xbox application. When enabled, the Xbox app will keep the last 30 seconds of gameplay in a 30 fps, 720p video file, so right after you got that sick no-scope you can hit the button and quickly save a clip of everything that just happened. All PC users will benefit from the games bar, however, and its ability to stream video and still captures from your games.Įver done something totally mind-blowing in a game unexpectedly, and find yourself wishing you could go back and capture a video of it? The updated Xbox app for Windows 10 brings the Xbox One’s Game DVR feature to the desktop. Unfortunately, the release versions of these apps are limited in functionality, and chances are you won’t have any use for the Xbox app unless you actually have an Xbox. Windows 10 brings with it new features centered on the Xbox app and games bar. It shows in the UI as much as it shows in the feature set, but the big unanswered question is still how it affects system performance. This time around, Microsoft is more focused on the desktop experience than they were with Windows 8. Windows 10 is chock full of them, too, and though a number of them are gaming focused, not all gamers are going to be anxious to upgrade right away. In a world where optimizing your system perfectly is everything, each new feature means more overhead, and major OS updates tend to have a lot of them.
No one cares about tiny percentages in performance and the minutiae of an operating system more than gamers.
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