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Can the ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 9 run Halo: The Master Chief Collection?
Halo: The Master Chief Collection by Xbox Game Studios: the publisher’s own minimum requirements, compared with this exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
Not rated yet
Recommended requirements: not rated yet
We can’t rate the GeForce GTS 450 / Radeon HD 6850 yet. Here’s what we could check:
- Operating system — meets (Windows 7; this laptop: Windows)
- RAM — the publisher does not state a requirement
- Graphics — Intel Graphics vs GeForce GTS 450 / Radeon HD 6850: not rated yet
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection system requirements · publisher requirements
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- Manufacturer spec page for this configuration · manufacturer
- https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_E14_Gen_6_Intel/ThinkPad_E14_Gen_6_Intel_Spec.pdf · manufacturer
Published requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 960T ; Intel i3550
- GPU
- AMD HD 6850 ; NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 · DirectX 11
- Storage
- 43 GB
- OS
- Windows 7
Recommended requirements
Sources and limits
How we know this · Report an error
- Valve (Steam) — Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam — System Requirements · retrieved 9/20/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.