Serious Sam 3 BFE

[Man from Atlantis]

Croteam recommends a Geforce GTX 580, is also sufficient as a model of the Radeon HD 6870 or Geforce GTX 560 completely - unless you waive supersampling.

 

[Davros]

that sentence doesn't really make too much sense in English

 

[homerdog]

Yeah I can't figure out what they're saying. Of course a GTX580 is recommended. I would recommend that for every game. The question is, what does it take to play the game at reasonably high settings? I don't think GTX580 is the answer unless Croteam off their rocker.

 

[I.S.T.]

Release date is set for October 18th.

Also here is the trailer for one of the spinoff games, due out next week:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/Joystiq/videos/6575/

 

[Man from Atlantis]

amazing game supports SGSSAA native.. and nice to see they have gone to BF3 route let msaa + fxaa together

source

That being the shooter moves current and known rendering techniques on the assembly line that would be there (selection): Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion, lens flares, depth of field, bloom, motion blur by Gaussian filter, soft shadows, soft particles, refractions , reflections and a dynamic lighting and various Kantenglättungsmodi. Edit this shadow polygon edges (MSAA), alpha-like foliage, respectively shader tests (FXAA) or the entire image (SGSSAA). The latter replaces the "pixel ratio" of HD parts, but says the same thing: supersampling improves the appearance and makes clear from Serious Sam 3 is a circular thing. On top of the pack "triple" or various downsampling filter like Lanczos.

Preview

big screenshots

 

[homerdog]

The game is one of those rarities that really prefers AMD hardware. Interesting.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Man, if this has the same type of gameplay as Serious Sam 1. I'm going to be all over it once I finish my playthrough of Fable 3 on the PC (thank you Steam insane deals sale).

Regards,
SB

 

[I.S.T.]

Haven't Croteam engines always preferred AMD hardware?

Also, god i wish I had this game.

 

[Mendel]

Looks really good. Looks like a shooter from the good old days.

I really enjoyed the first encounter when it first came out.

 

[skmanga]

Serious Sam 2 ran great on my 6800gt, very pretty art and colors!!
this should also run great on my 460gtx
im still running at 1280x1024

 

[fellix]

 

[hoho]

I seem to be having some weird issues with the game. I updated to latest NV beta drivers and the game doesn't go above 10-12FPS inside the shack you land at the start. I've changed all the CPU/GPU speed/GPU memory settings from lowest to high (everything autodetects as "high") and resolution from 720p to 1680x1050 and it has pretty much zero effect on the FPS. Running on q6600+560gtx. Skyrim at ultra runs perfectly fine on same machine.

 

[hoho]

After downgrading from latest beta NV drivers back to latest stable ones things seem to work pretty well now

 

[fellix]

The graphics options: http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/2556/sam32011112220244756.jpg

 

[homerdog]

Be still my heart...

 

[Malo]

It's like a PC gamers wet dream of settings...

 

[Mize]

I'm going to buy the game for the settings page alone...

 

[Silent_Buddha]

The graphics options: http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/2556/sam32011112220244756.jpg

Damn! And that's only the first half.

PC gaming done right!

Regards,
SB

 

[gamervivek]

The cpu settings in the HD series(and the originals?) had number of triangles and stuff that won't make sense to even better informed gamers.
otoh FOV and mouse acceleration had to be modified through the console.

 

[swaaye]

Yeah the original SS game began their quest for loads of settings. I remember it had a setting for dual, triple and quad texturing so I could feel good about my 3xTMU Radeon.

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/serioussam/print.shtml

SS3 is the only game I know of with SSAA support!