Performance review

[Terepin]

https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/serious-sam-siberian-mayhem-pc-performance-analysis/

To say that it runs like a Gnaar's sh*t would be a serious understatement. The optimization is so broken, in fact, that there is no difference in performance between GTX 980 Ti and RTX 3080!

[ConicalG]

Runs constant 60fps on my GTX 1070 on medium/high.

[mehmetozsurunc]

VRAM
2048 MB
GDDR5 1500 MHz

GPU
AMD Radeon (TM) RX 640
Hybrid

CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU
@ 1.60GHz 4 Cores

RAM
16 GB

Is it possible to play this game with these graphics? Bye the way, Intel VRam 128MB

[Zapmaster]

Originally posted by mehmetozsurunc:

VRAM
2048 MB
GDDR5 1500 MHz

GPU
AMD Radeon (TM) RX 640
Hybrid

CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU
@ 1.60GHz 4 Cores

RAM
16 GB

Is it possible to play this game with these graphics? Bye the way, Intel VRam 128MB

I think it will run, but not well. RX 640 just doesn't have much juice. At 720p and low settings it may be playable, but don't expect to see 60 fps often.

[TheGreatNermaster]

runs awesome on my 9900kf 64gb ddr4 3600mhz and gtx 1070 and gtx 1080 ti systems. I run high on 1070 @ 1080p and high/ultra on 1080ti @ 1440p.

[Kapteeni Moukku]

I think Mayhem is absolutely awesome but the performance is terrible. It's not because of high enemy counts since it struggles when there are no enemies at all. The game just can't utilize gpu nor cpu properly.

[danygia]

I prefer to not buy the game if i have to play with 3060 performance on a 3080 TI.

[Terepin]

More like 980 Ti performance on a 3080 Ti.

[Captain Awesome]

Originally posted by Terepin:

More like 980 Ti performance on a 3080 Ti.

agree!

[Mad_Commander]

Originally posted by dutcher107:

runs awesome on my 9900kf 64gb ddr4 3600mhz and gtx 1070 and gtx 1080 ti systems. I run high on 1070 @ 1080p and high/ultra on 1080ti @ 1440p.

9900KF here too but only 16GB and R9 380 4GB, Still runs at silly speed. Medium detail too

[SeriousCCIE]

What's expected performance in-game as compared to the benchmark in-game?

I thought that guy's article was kind of poorly written, as he didn't mention what he did to to optimize his machine but made sure to say the game was poorly optimized without quite stating why that is. I assume he doesn't have the faintest idea, he said that because he wanted it to perform better, not because he understood why it wasn't. And his comments about the 1080p cpu bottlenecking, that just sounds like he's repeating what he read over the years about game performance issues.

It doesn't seem like He ever opened the benching log created in the game folder, or maybe he just didn't understand what was in it if he knew it was there. If he's a gamer first and foremost and a reviewer second, I guess that'd make sense.

I am sure the log could have offered some hints as to the reasons behind his performance issues. Although he did go out of his way to 'simulate' poor performance more than he did to increase it. He never mentioned any positive performance changes he may have made to try to improve things.

Anyway I got (per the in-game benchmark logs) 72.7 fps with dx11 without enabling high performance for the gpu or the OS, and then 84.0 after I did.

Vulkan got 81., but I didn't exit out of the game entirely before switching from dx11 to vulkan and running that. I'll probably test that more later with different game runs with either setting, but so far, either seems to be fine.

SS4 gave me like 90fps after I tweaked the settings (created a custom game profile, etc...) Vulkan was way better in SS4 than DX11 for me (75 with dx11 and 90 with vulkan), but it could be by the time I got 90fps in SS4, I'd played it enough that I'd figured out the optimal settings for my machine.

editing to clarify it's at 4k

this is what was in the log in case anyone was interested

15:49:16 INF: Resolution: 3840 x 2160
15:49:16 INF: Driver: Direct3D 11 (11.0 features)
15:49:16 INF: Vendor: nVidia (0x10DE)
15:49:16 INF: Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (0x2204)
(delay between opening the game for the first time and finding the benchmark option... with fluff cut out in between that and this)
15:51:09 INF: * Benchmark results:
15:51:09 INF:
15:51:09 INF: Gfx API: Direct3D11
15:51:09 INF: Duration: 30.0 seconds (2180 frames)
15:51:09 INF: Average: 72.7 FPS (76.1 mid 98% in 2136 frames)
15:51:09 INF: Low 1%: min 62.8 ms, average 78.5 ms (12.7 FPS) for 22 frames
15:51:09 INF: High 1%: max 9.6 ms, average 9.4 ms (106.9 FPS) for 22 frames
15:51:09 INF: Sections: AI=13%, physics=3%, sound=3%, scene=55%, shadows=21%, misc=4%
15:51:09 INF: <30 FPS: 2%
15:51:09 INF: <60 FPS: 7%
15:51:09 INF: <90 FPS: 78%

I think 30 seconds for the bench isn't really long enough (I did run it at longer durations and got better results) but I am not an expert so what do I know.

Seems to run fine and got better when I increased the power/high performance mode/max peformance in the nvidia control panel, so I imagine some of the optimization that needs improving is up to the user do.

[Mad_Commander]

https://youtu.be/-CBLp9VYKwI Ok it's not the best detail but i want smooth FPS and no Microstutter so a turn down a few things. I mean do you play CS:GO at full detail?

[SeriousCCIE]

I don't play CS:GO so I can't quite relate, sorry.

I play total war II warhammer at 4k though and get 57fps which is pretty good for that game. But I guess that doesn't relate.

The other fps i played recently has been Doom Eternal and that's triple digit frames so I think that isn't a fair comparison.

Borderlands 3 at 4K is like 85fps. That was getting like 75fps with 1080tis in SLI, but the new gpu made it easier to get a decent framerate without the aggressive tweaking I had to do with the 1080tis to get 75.

[SeriousCCIE]

So hey for the microstutter have you enabled vsync or gsync? I haven't noticed any stutter in this yet but I'm not averse to capping the frame limit if it reduces other problems.

[UserNotFound]

I agree that while framerate could be better, I don't see any stuttering, perhaps only slowdown (down to about 40fps) when I'm surrounded by hordes of Headless Kamikazes and Gnaars with explosions all around. These are slowdowns due to overwhelming number of enemies and visual effects causing my GPU or CPU (or both) to get overwhelmed. This isn't stuttering and should not be mistaken as such.

Other than that, framerate can be >100fps, with most gameplay around 80fps with mix of High and Ultra settings ( I know my CPU and few other settings are at Ultra) @ 3840x1080.

[mehmetozsurunc]

Originally posted by Zapmaster:

Originally posted by mehmetozsurunc:

VRAM
2048 MB
GDDR5 1500 MHz

GPU
AMD Radeon (TM) RX 640
Hybrid

CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU
@ 1.60GHz 4 Cores

RAM
16 GB

Is it possible to play this game with these graphics? Bye the way, Intel VRam 128MB

I think it will run, but not well. RX 640 just doesn't have much juice. At 720p and low settings it may be playable, but don't expect to see 60 fps often.

I see. Actually I have a problem with the graphics. Can I upgrade my video ram from 128 MB to a higher level like 256 MB or more? Because the game starts with a warning: 'Your graphics card doesnt meet the minimum requirements' I have read something about BIOS thing. Is it possible?