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Serious Sam Second Encounter HD (2010)
Serious Sam is the title of a series of first-person shooters created by the Croatian development team Croteam. It follows the adventures of its hero Sam “Serious” Stone and his fight against the forces of the extraterrestrial overlord Mental who seeks to destroy humanity. It’s gameplay is a throwback to early first-person shooters like Quake and Doom with the twist of being set in wide-open environments with large groups of enemies attacking at any time, and there are many hidden areas and treasures to find and puzzles to solve. Serious Sam features cooperative gameplay and allows for split screen action supporting up to 4 players.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter was remade as “HD” using Serious Engine 3. It was released in April, 2010 for PC. Besides updated visuals, new game modes including “Co-op Tournament” and “Survival” for single player, were introduced in this remake. Serious Sam 3 is currently in development by Croteam and is expected to debut at E3, 2011.
We use the basic 3 “ultra” presets for benching Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD. There are possible further fine-tuning which will make the game even more demanding, but we chose the “ultra” presets with one higher setting, 8xAA. We test first at 2560×1600 resolution:
And finally at 1920×1080 with the same ultra presets:
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD on the Serious 3 engine is quite demanding and yet all of our top configurations play it satisfactorily using the game’s built-in “ultra” presets. The Galaxy GTX 480 SOC is the fastest but the HD 5870 puts in a good showing.
i read that 2 gtx 460 nvidia video cards in sli are blowing out the 480 version so its better to buy 2 gtx 460 cards and set them in sli then buying 1 gtx 480 card because 1 gtx 480 is really wasting money
There are always advantages of a single powerful GPU over multi-GPU. You also have no upgrade path from GTX 460 SLI as you do with a single GTX 480 or GTX 580.
I am running benchmarks for a brand new article that will cover this subject: EVGA FTW GTX 460 vs. Galaxy GTX 460, versus GTX 480 and GTX 580. It should be up in a week or so.
I couldn’t concur more. Effectively Said!