Serious Sam 3

[Burnt_Ram]

its a fun game, i just hope they sort out the SLI issues soon! damn frustrating when i drop below 60 fps vsynced and my gpu usage is only 65-75%! it has to be a driver issue ...

[lucidus]

They're developing a patch to fix SLI issues but the last I heard of it was before the steam sales so let's see when it shows up.

[Burnt_Ram]

Originally Posted by lucidus

They're developing a patch to fix SLI issues but the last I heard of it was before the steam sales so let's see when it shows up.

hopefully the next patch and or the next drivers fix it.

[ViperXtreme]

Uploaded another gameplay vid >_>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Phnwm-bLg

[remicius]

i have no SLI related problem at all.Running so well.but i have to use the fps limter at 50,otherwise my cards getting to hot,80-95% gpu usage,almost all the settings maxed out at 2880x1620.

[cowie]

Was just playing on a 8 man mental server, the 7980 i have was getting its ass handed to it.
max 46fps min 25fps 1920x1080 everything set in game to its max level like i did to my 448's

[JonasBeckman]

Maybe due to AA which should be at 8x if you set everything as high as possible, together with FXAA which is also used at those settings.
(Plus the filter techniques and added shaders from customizing the settings to go above what the default ultra preset does.)

If using Adaptive-AA or Edge-Detect filtering from ATI/AMD CCC (Or SSAA though that's a bit extreme.) that's likely why AA sees such a performance hit.

Come to think of it the pixel whatever it was called might be at 2.0x which is supersampling (I use 1.25x via console command tweaks / config adjustments as above that sort of devastates performance but I still use part of it due to the superior anti-aliasing offered.) so that might also be why the performance is so low depending on level and enemy count, especiallly that mental difficulty like you said.
(Something like 3200x2200 pixel resolution when at 2x from 1920x1080, roughly estimated.)

[cowie]

I just remembered i left all the settings in cp to performance when i was benching the card last,might not matter
I'll test again the same way as i do my other cards,using the most highest settings i can ingame..plus i like to make sure the setting are working since in ss2 my 4850's at launch had no aa or af applied,which messed up the compare numbers
Yeah sure i could lighten up the settings since some are hardly noticeable but the last cards i'v tested were 600usd vga setups(580 lightning.448 ti sli,7980)so i dont want to treat them with kid gloves...you know test games like bf3,cod or the other easy games to run lol


i thuoght you can set the pixel thing ingame Jb?
hmmm i'll look sometime today

[cowie]

Vids of my 7980 in action 1200/1600
it did not help much with max blasted settings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3TZ...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smuai...yuNwLGYitC1sMv

[Xzibit]

^ Nice, but where is the gun
7980?

[cowie]

I have it turned off ingame
It takes up too much screen

[cowie]

I had some connection issues last night but found this sever in germany ping was 125.
not my favorite map but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-xTJ...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

was putting the smack down on the card still even got the cpu @4.8 no help
bout ready to put my 448's back in and send the 7980 back to newegg

[cowie]

3rd person view is working,there was an update the other day
link to patch info
http://store.steampowered.com/news/7253/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZd5t...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

[cowie]

Monthly bump
fork parker was giving out free keys the otherday again for this and the indie ss games

hope he gives out more cus not alot of server action lately.
not onsale at steam right now but if you did not get the game i would when it does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGnHy...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

[TheReproducer]

Originally Posted by cowie

I had some connection issues last night but found this sever in germany ping was 125.
not my favorite map but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-xTJ...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

was putting the smack down on the card still even got the cpu @4.8 no help
bout ready to put my 448's back in and send the 7980 back to newegg

Wtf is a 7980?

[Redemption80]

I'm assuming an overclocked 7970 lol.

[cowie]

That new amd card the 7980 jeez you dont know about it?
I think it ran pretty decent concidering that when i record i lose some fps and the settings were kicked you in the nuts high.

[Sobek]

Originally Posted by cowie

Monthly bump
fork parker was giving out free keys the otherday again for this and the indie ss games

hope he gives out more cus not alot of server action lately.
not onsale at steam right now but if you did not get the game i would when it does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGnHy...-CSIh5WNYvb7G2

Where does he do that... on Twitter?

[cowie]

Oh yes on Twitter sorry.
http://twitter.com/#!/ForkParker

[cowie]

For less then a small bag of weed you can get every ss game this weekend

rich knuckles in retrospctive of ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=N5bZrsZ-dwU

$30
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/13606/

ss bf3 patch minor fixes was only about 20mb
site is slow right now or something.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/7390/

Product Update - Valve
Feb 22, 2012


o Dedicated server now works on Linux. It can be downloaded using HLDSUpdateTool for Linux, using gamename "serioussam3-linux".
o SeriousEditor can now natively import and export meshes in Wavefront .obj format. You may need to reset the Common toolbar in mesh editor to see the new buttons for it.
o Various fixes and improvements in script edit control in SeriousEditor: added scrollbar, fixed scrolling errors, fixed rare crashes in undo/redo, better assignment of variable on drag&drop of entity from world, some other small fixes.
o Fixed severe visual errors on GI baking that happened when models had compressed normals.
o Fixed rare server crashes caused by malformed RPC messages from client.
o When server has problems executing an RPC, client ID and name are output to log, and the client is disconnected to prevent further damage. If client cannot execute receives an exception when trying to execute an RPC, it will disconnect from the server. o Fixed some minor issues in menus when rendering for stereoscopic display. o Fixed problems with some shaders not being rendered correctly under OpenGL. o Fixed Chinese and Japanese versions of Kanji characters mixing up in some cases. Now Japanese glyphs have precedence when using Japanese locale, and Chinese glyhps when using Chinese locale.
o Fixed an issue causing snapping instead of smooth transition between fire animations on player model in some cases. o Character animation selection system was changed to facilitate more complex combinations of legs and torso animations.
o Fixed an issue causing scaffolding pole to remain on third person player model when switching weapons or performing melee while scaffolding pole is equipped. o Created new jump animations for player character. o Created some more player animations for swimming/diving while carrying explosives or sledgehammer.
o Added support for Raw Input for mouse and keyboard, enabled with inp_bRawInput. This should give more precision in mouse reading, for those who want every micrometer of aiming accuracy.

[Tat3]

Finally Serious Sam 2 on Steam (or on any digital store). Bought

[S†v0r]

Originally Posted by Tat3

Finally Serious Sam 2 on Steam (or on any digital store). Bought

i got that bundled with my ooold 8800gts, hmm maybe i could activate on steam? edit: lol nope -_-



btw SS3 is extremely cheap this weekend, ~9.50€

[Kaktus]

Yeh i bought the complete bundle as well.
Bargain of note.

[Tat3]

Originally Posted by Kaktus

Yeh i bought the complete bundle as well.
Bargain of note.

I would have bought it if I did not already have Firs + Second Encounter (+HD versions) and BFE. Now bought that SS2 which I did not have before... Not sure if those other games are any good ? Can someone who owns those comment ?

[WhiteLightning]

bought SS2 aswell

WTF