Serious Sam HD

Alongside all new HD graphics, Serious Sam still has a casual blaster appeal, that's why we've included it here. It's easy to dive in and dive out without much commitment, and the engine scales back the detail levels pretty well. There's actually one detail level below what we've used, however it looks incredibly poor so we would strongly avoid it.

We set Serious Sam HD to its 'Low' settings on the graphics side, while leaving the CPU set to 'High', with V-Sync disabled and the resolution was set to 1,280 x 800. We manually ran the first part of the Egypt campaign for 90 seconds, three times over with FRAPS 3.03 and took an average result.



There's a huge performance increase compared to the Core i3 530 and AMD 785G systems, so despite losing out in the cost:performance factor of media benchmarks there's clearly an advantage gained here. Overall the gameplay is very smooth, and we would be tempted to push the texture resolution up again, however at a 36FPS minimum there's no much overhead to play with before this fast paced FPS will start to stutter.