The game features the series signature fast paced fps combat.
Serious sam 4 vulkan. Dx12 ran ok for a while but later started lagging after a couple hours enough to be annoying though not as bad as before but. As such it s time now to benchmark it and see how it performs on the. All discussions screenshots artwork broadcasts videos news guides reviews. Vulkan caused a stuttering problem in cutscenes and gameplay for me when ever something new was loaded in but i think the preformance was alright after that however i changed it to dx11 and it didnt stutter at all i dont the game is optimized for.
Vulkan graphics performance comparison test in ultra settings in 1080p. Serious sam 4 is the latest entry in the long running franchise. For example going from ultra down to high for max shadow size increases my average fps by 20. Give them some time and i m sure they ll patch it.
Also for whatever reason turning field of view up to the maximum of 120 gives about a 10 to 15 fps boost over the default fov of 75. I have a 1080 and i7 with 16gb ram. In this video i testing serious sam 4 directx 11 vs. I ve read a lot about bad performance and i can confirm it doesn t run very well.
The latest fusion version still shows shader compile stutter with vulkan until shader binaries are cached. Anthony garreffa feb 1 2016 at 10 21 pm cst 1 min 3 secs time to read. All discussions screenshots artwork broadcasts videos news guides reviews. So please make sure that every shader is compiled in time.
It was only after the last patch i tried dx12 and vulkan again. Powered by the serious engine serious sam 4 is one of the few games that supports both the directx 12 and vulkan apis. Serious sam 4 how to fix crash when switching to vulkan posted on september 25 2020 for serious sam 4 players if you are trying to switch to vlkan but the game crashes time to time this is a potential fix to the game crashing when selecting vulkan. Serious sam 4 will look more realistic supports the vulkan api did you know there s a new serious sam on the way.
Vulkan on the other hand was a slide show and dx was very laggy. Kinda sad considering the game was delayed but i expect croteam to patch this. Serious sam 4 stuttering black screen and fixes. I really hope that this issue won t be present in serious sam 4.
However technically the game has problems as serious sam 4 pc players are reporting issues like stuttering low fps in game crash crash at launch and more.