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- Serious Sam 3: BFE (41070)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 7 December 2012 - 14:46:00 UTC
- Source
- steam_updates
Build 173456 for Serious Sam 3 is released. If you have previously opted into public beta, you already have this. For all others, here is the list of changes: Update 173456 contains a number of general fixes in the game, as well as some that are specific to the Linux version. - IMPORTANT FOR LINUX: Most of the weird performance problems in previous builds were caused by performance throttling (aka power saving) features on various CPUs not correctly identifying that the game is running and continually jittering between low and high performance modes (several times per second sometimes!). This build adds a workaround for this which should hopefully prevent the symptoms from being so extreme. It is not perfect however, as there might still be a few percents of performance to squeeze out. The recommended solution is to turn off such features in BIOS for Linux machines. They can be found in ...