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:

Graphics Options
Graphics Performance
GPU Settings (1/2)
GPU Settings (2/2)

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
  • Ambient Occlusion Precision
 80%
  • Ambient Occlusion Quality
 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
  • Shadow Trilinear Span
 20%
  • Max Shadow Size
 Medium
  • Shadow Density
 Custom
  • Shadow Antialiasing
 Low (2x)
  • Shadow Blurring
 Off
Crumbs On
  • Crumbs Cast Shadows
 Off
  • Crumbs Receive Shadows
 On
  • No Dynamics Lighting On Crumbs
 Off
  • Crumbs Density Bias
 80%
  • Crumbs Distance Bias
 60%
Bloom On
  • Bloom HQ
 Off
Gaussian Blur On
Zoom Blur On
Light Streaks On
Streaks HQ On
Heat Shimmer On
Particles Density 80%
Lens Flare Quality All

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