Serious Sam 4 gained a Steam Deck Verified rating recently, which is in part thanks to the developer pushing out a small but significant patch for the game. It was listed in the recent post on Steam Deck hitting 3,000 titles either Playable or Verified.
While it's not a Native Linux version like their previous titles, seeing another developer actively support their game in Proton to give a good experience on Linux and Steam Deck is great.
In the recent patch notes the developer stated: "Hey everyone! As you have noticed we released a small, but notable update for Serious Sam 4. The update is focused on performance and game stability, new GPU support and most importantly the game now has a Steam Deck support".
How does it run on Steam Deck though? Let's take a quick look:
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In short: not great. Playable but frequent hard-drops down, even below 30FPS at times and the frame timing is messy. Seems they still have plenty of work to do on optimizing Serious Sam 4.
You can buy it on Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Cpu and gpu seems lower than 100, weird, where's the bottleneck then?
It would be interesting to know if under windows it performs the same.
Differently it sould be a proton thing.
Edit:
seems a common thing for gpu.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeriousSam/comments/p0c73o/serious_sam_4_fix_for_low_gpu_usage/
Probably it is also taxing one cpu thread too heavy.
Last edited by kokoko3k on 26 May 2022 at 10:59 am UTC
Just a real shame considering their previous track record...
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