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 HD 4330 in the Zino HD felt notably laggy, and while the average frame rate is quite high at 39FPS, the minimums of just 15FPS were difficult to play with. It didn't feel any better than the 785G integrated graphics, but at least the experience is again far better than the Nvidia Ion system that averages 15FPS, with a tiny minimum of just 7FPS.