The Passive Gigabyte & Overclocked HIS HD 6770 meet the EVGA GTX 550 Ti
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. Its 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 on April, 2010 for PC. Besides updated visuals, new game modes including “Co-op Tournament” and “Survival” for single player, were introduced in this remake.
We use the basic 3 “ultra” presets for benching Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD. There is possible further fine-tuning which will make the game even more demanding, but we chose the “ultra” presets with only one higher GPU setting, to allow for testing beyond 1920×1080.
We test at 1920×1200 and 1680×1050 resolutions:
The differences start out in favor of the GTX 550 Ti at 1680×1050 and disappear as the resolution is cranked up. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD on the Serious 3 engine is quite demanding at default ultra settings.
