Halo Infinite PC Game Crash Fix: Rollback Nvidia Driver to 555.85

If you are a Halo Infinite PC player, you may have noticed that you are unable to launch the game after recent updates. The game crashes during the shader complication. When the progress bar gets to about 45% it hangs and then exits. I tried all the classic tricks to get the game working. I cleared the shader cache, repaired and even reinstalled the game, nothing worked.

The fix that eventually worked for me was to roll back the driver to the previous 555.85 version. Download the file (link: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/224750/en-us/) and run it. It will remove 555.99 on its own. I assume that rolling back the driver via Windows device manager would also work.

Comments on Steam, Reddit, and Microsoft’s sites indicate that both the 343-dev team and Nvidia are aware of the issue and working toward a permanent fix.