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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.
Tags: Action, FPS, Upcoming
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Rob on Linux Mar 8, 2014
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.
fabertawe Mar 10, 2014
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.
fabertawe Mar 10, 2014
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.
fabertawe Mar 11, 2014
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.
fabertawe Mar 12, 2014
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.
fabertawe Mar 13, 2014
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
GoCorinthians Mar 14, 2014
Didnt bought bundle with it. But getting on sale. I will try
fabertawe Mar 14, 2014
@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.
fabertawe Mar 25, 2014
Good to know you figured it out stan! Have fun :D
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