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.



The Intel Core i5-661 with its higher core clock and faster IGP does really very well here, sporting the highest average frame rate. However, the Nvidia GeForce 9400 still played more smoothly overall, with a minimum FPS that's a few above the Intel system. AMD's 785G and Intel's cheaper Core i3-530 both fall off quite considerably though, with a very choppy gameplay experience and much lower FPS.