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Get ready Serious fans as Sam is back in Q4 of this year in Serious Sam 4, so we will see another great looking action-packed FPS game with some comedy thrown in.
News comes thanks to SeriousZone.
Croteam have been extremely quiet about SS4, so I hope that is with good reason and that it turns out well. Serious Sam 3 was an interesting title bringing old-skool FPS action up to date and turned out pretty well. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
News comes thanks to SeriousZone.
Croteam have been extremely quiet about SS4, so I hope that is with good reason and that it turns out well. Serious Sam 3 was an interesting title bringing old-skool FPS action up to date and turned out pretty well. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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philip550c Mar 6, 2014
i have played every serious sam game all the way through co-op, really enjoy them. Serious Sam 3 was the best game when steam for linux first came out. Very excited about a new one. I hope its not in the desert again, I enjoy the tropical setting of the first games more.
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Ummh, I noticed this game isn't tagged as a Steam-dependant game.
Good!
Good!
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Serious Sam > Duke Nukem
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Its on the Serious engine 3.0 or on a new one?
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Are these games seriously any good? *pun not intended. I own all of them through various bundles just have never installed any of them.
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Are these games seriously any good? *pun not intended. I own all of them through various bundles just have never installed any of them.
SS3 isn't bad actually.
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i have played every serious sam game all the way through co-op, really enjoy them. Serious Sam 3 was the best game when steam for linux first came out. Very excited about a new one. I hope its not in the desert again, I enjoy the tropical setting of the first games more.
Actually, the very first Serious Sam game was set in the dessert...
Not that I personally ever really got into any of the Serious Sam games. People say they bring back the classic Doom formula, but there is a lot more to Doom than just shooting lots of dumb enemies in vast but still surprisingly linear courtyards.
It probably is more fun as a co-op game though, and my only experience with them is admittedly only with some of the older ports that were never properly polished.
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philip550c Mar 7, 2014
I remember the first desert one I just meant there were two tropical ones that I liked more. And yes doom is a better game and I think duke 3d was better as well but this game is great for beer and LAN parties.i have played every serious sam game all the way through co-op, really enjoy them. Serious Sam 3 was the best game when steam for linux first came out. Very excited about a new one. I hope its not in the desert again, I enjoy the tropical setting of the first games more.Actually, the very first Serious Sam game was set in the dessert...
Not that I personally ever really got into any of the Serious Sam games. People say they bring back the classic Doom formula, but there is a lot more to Doom than just shooting lots of dumb enemies in vast but still surprisingly linear courtyards.
It probably is more fun as a co-op game though - and my only experience with them is admittedly only with some of the older ports that were never properly polished.
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The most recent updates to SS3 have killed the frame rate for me, where before I was getting a consistent 30 frames per second I'm now getting between 7 & 12, not impressed at all & I love the Serious Sam games.
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I thought I'd go back and check the frame rates as I'd finished this game last summer with a GTX 460.
I'm now on a GTX 660 and the frame rates are definitely higher, up over 100 in some parts but it's not at all smooth and quite glitchy. I certainly remember it being smoother.
I'm now on a GTX 660 and the frame rates are definitely higher, up over 100 in some parts but it's not at all smooth and quite glitchy. I certainly remember it being smoother.
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No DE here, window manager is Compiz 0.8. Nvidia 334.21. Phenom II X4 965BE @ 3.82 GHz, governor set to performance.
I'm also running at 1680×1050, fullscreen. Settings... CPU Speed: Ultra ; GPU Speed: High ; GPU Memory: Ultra.
I'm also running at 1680×1050, fullscreen. Settings... CPU Speed: Ultra ; GPU Speed: High ; GPU Memory: Ultra.
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That's just bonkers - I'm Arch 64 as well.
I'm not very familiar with Xfce (even though I put it on my wife's laptop!), when you say you killed Compton did you try another WM or just turn off compositing? It might be worth trying Metacity as a test, I know that works fine here too.
I'm not very familiar with Xfce (even though I put it on my wife's laptop!), when you say you killed Compton did you try another WM or just turn off compositing? It might be worth trying Metacity as a test, I know that works fine here too.
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And there's me thinking everything favoured Intel CPUs! I've always bought AMD CPUs purely because they've been better value for money (so far anyway - and always ones that aren't the latest, so reduced in price also).
As regards "ondemand" - I have up_threshold at 30 and "performance" is still noticeably zippier on the desktop (at least). Changing the governor is very trivial anyway. I'm running kernel 3.13.6-1-ck at the moment but this shouldn't be a factor.
Looking at the link you posted, there shouldn't be such a difference between our systems
but at least you can play it :D SS3 Jewel Of The Nile was fun as well.
As regards "ondemand" - I have up_threshold at 30 and "performance" is still noticeably zippier on the desktop (at least). Changing the governor is very trivial anyway. I'm running kernel 3.13.6-1-ck at the moment but this shouldn't be a factor.
Looking at the link you posted, there shouldn't be such a difference between our systems
but at least you can play it :D SS3 Jewel Of The Nile was fun as well.
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Wow, didn't expect that. I know ck helps with desktop responsiveness generally but I didn't think it could make much of a difference in this sort of case.
Well you're heading in the right direction anyway! Happy gaming :D
Well you're heading in the right direction anyway! Happy gaming :D
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Didnt bought bundle with it. But getting on sale. I will try
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@stan - well I have no idea what's going on with your crazy setup :P but I've just tried the stock kernel from the repos and I got exactly the same frame rates as with -ck, maybe even 2 to 3 fps better.
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