14 DAY TRIAL // Serious Sam 3: BFE is a very serious first-person shooter, as the name suggests, and it has just received a major update that greatly improves its performance.
The Croteam studio has been hard at work and it is trying its best to make Serious Sam 3: BFE one of the best shooters for Linux.
The latest update for the game can be enabled by selecting the public Beta option from Steam. Here is a short list with the highlights of the patch:
• A workaround has been added for a bug in the ATI OpenGL driver, which was causing the menu and the loading background to be black; • The postprocessing shader system has been refactored and optimized. This means that some effects are up to five times faster; • The Choose Levels menu now shows bigger thumbnails for each level, and best statistics for the current player; • A crash caused by a Sirian bracelet, when multithreaded rendering was enabled, has been fixed; • A crash that could happen if a player carrying a flag in CTF game fell into abyss, while in third-person mode (with multithreaded rendering enabled), has been fixed; • The performance has been improved on the Linux platform; • The default "program has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way" message is replaced new logging, which can be actually useful in troubleshooting; • Support has been added for users who want to remap the controller; • Control mappings have been added on Linux for XBox 360, Playstation 3 and Logitech F510/F310/F710 controllers.
To install the beta, follow these steps:
• locate the game (Serious Sam 3 in this case) in the Steam's "Library" panel • right click and invoke "Properties" • select the "Betas" tab • choose "publicbeta"
More details about the changes introduced with the patch can be found in the official announcement on Steam’s website.