Le patch 1.5 pour Serious Sam : 2nd Encounter est disponible chez SeriousZone.com (23mo). Pas mal de nouveautés et d’améliorations au programme, le détail dans la suite. [–SUITE–]
Les nouveautés :
- full hardware 3D sound (with EAX) with support for dolby surround 5.1
- optimized rendering (5-20% faster)
- support for occlusion culling
- major improvements to skeletal animations (seen in updated tech-test level)
- support for hardware vertex & pixel shaders (seen in updated tech-test level)
- Parhelia triple-head support (support for three monitors)
- detection of newer graphic cards (ATI Radeon 9700/pro, ATI Radeon 9500/pro, ATI Radeon 9000/pro, NV GeForceFX, Matorx Parhelia, SiS Xabre 600/400/200)
- no more syncbads in multiplay
- recoded demo rec/playback (no sync problems) and more…
Les modifications :
- network switched from lockstep action processing to proper server-client
- new demo recording and playback
- synchronisation checks removed, they are no longer neccessary
- hardware 3D sound
- 5.1 surround support implemented
- vertex and pixel shaders implemented for SKA
- occlusion culling implemented
- triple-head support implemented
- ‘Makefont.exe’ – new font creator
Le patch n’est pas compatible avec les précédentes versions et efface toutes vos configurations (Graphique, commandes de jeu etc.)