Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Update Released

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Updates to Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

 

 

• Demo recording and playback added.
  
  • Works in single player, on server and on client.
    
  • Can record demo segments while playing a demo.
    
  • Recording started from menus, or using F7 in game.
    
  • Hud shows current recording or playback status.
    
  • Cutscenes cannot be recorded - recording is automatically stopped when a cut scene is encountered.
    

  [*]Changed the alignment of all table items in the join game menu from centered to left aligned.

  [*]Some widgets in CPU performance customization options were not functional.

  [*]Leaderboards menu now supports double click on leaderboard players for details.

  [*]3rd person view mode now persists when respawning.

  [*]Bullet fly-by sounds were sometimes played for the wrong player.

  [*]The rocket model in the first person RL weapon would sometimes dissapear/flicker. Fixed.

  [*]Fixed flashing crumbs when prebaked lights are used.

  [*]net_fConnectionTimeout was not honored by the "Connecting" progress screen, thus limiting it to 10 seconds of its hardcoded value.

  [*]Fixed possible timing issue with sounds that have their pitch set too high resulting in unsupported frequency by the sound HW and/or API.

  [*]Sound mixer frequency can now be 48/44 kHz or 22 kHz if cvar 'sfx_bLowSampleRate' is set. (Cvar 'xad_iMaxSampleRate' has been deprecated.)

  [*]Fixed crash inside XAudio2 when sound HW supports sample rates higher than 100 kHz.

  [*]Master sound mixer frequency (sample rate) and speaker config are now reported to console at startup.

  [*]Better sound mixing performance of XAudio2 under sound boards that support very high sample rates (more than 48 kHz).

  [*]Enabled DirectSound and OpenAL sound APIs. To change the current API, adjust sfx_iAPI and restart the game. Note that those APIs are not officially supported.

  [*]Fixed boss bar not being shown in some rare cases.

  [*]Fixed problem with crosshair sometimes being rendered wrong (flickering).

  [*]Fixed problem with having too many occlusion queries under 3 or more GPU setups.

  [*]Fixed a crash that happened in graphics options when user resets cvars via console cvarResetToDefaults() command.Fixed a rare application crash on exit that prevented settings from being saved. It happened mostly on single-core machines, but sometimes on multi-core as well.

 

 

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