Nothing more pleasing, than running a game on 60 frames per second and still having a beautiful visual look while travelling the virtual worlds.
For running Serious Sam 3: BFE with 60 FPS and beautiful graphics, the following graphics performance settings are recommended:
The following settings are meant for an Apple iMac 5k (27-inch 2017) model with an AMD Radeon Pro 580 graphics card – for anything below that, you may need to scale down some settings; or with an iMac Pro just go for Ultra.
Graphics Options
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 2560 x 1440 (16:9) |
| Full Screen | On |
| Enable V-Sync | On |
| Screen Width | 100 % |
| Screen Height | 100 % |
Graphics Performance
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| CPU Speed | Ultra |
| GPU Speed * | Medium (customized) |
| GPU Memory | Ultra |
* for details see chapter “GPU Settings“
GPU Settings
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Max 3D Rendering MPIX | 1.1 MPIX |
| Rescaling Filter | Bilinear |
| Texture Filtering | Trilinear |
| Anisotropic Filtering | Medium (4x) |
| Parallax Mapping | Fast |
| Parallaxing Quality | Optimal |
| Multi-Sample Antialising | Medium (4x) |
| Super-Sample Antialising | Low (2x) |
| Fast-Approcimate Anitaliasing | Medium |
| Ambient Occlusion | On |
|
80% |
|
Low |
| Ambient Shadows | Off |
| Fast Lights | On |
| No Dynamics Lighting | Off |
| Rendering LOD Bias | 80% |
| Mirror Quality | Medium |
| Mirror Reflections | On |
| Allow Reflections | On |
| Smooth Particles | On |
| Shadow Trilinear Dithering | On |
|
20% |
|
Medium |
|
Custom |
|
Low (2x) |
|
Off |
| Crumbs | On |
|
Off |
|
On |
|
Off |
|
80% |
|
60% |
| Bloom | On |
|
Off |
| Gaussian Blur | On |
| Zoom Blur | On |
| Light Streaks | On |
| Streaks HQ | On |
| Heat Shimmer | On |
| Particles Density | 80% |
| Lens Flare Quality | All |
Additional articles about Serious Sam 3 performance tuning
- Steam – Serious Sam 3 Discussion – How to get solid 60 fps?
- Steam – Serious Sam 3 Discussion – Linux: My settings for smooth framerate
If you find even better graphics settings for running Serious Sam 3 more beautifully on macOS High Sierra, let me know in the comments!




Hi
How old is SM3?
Where can I get it?
Thank you for the amazing optimising hints! ❤️
Serious Sam 3: BFE is already a couple years old – it was released on November 22, 2011 😉 I purchased it via Valve’s Steam App on my Mac.