Downloads: Second Encounter Patch 1.50 (beta)

WARNING: This patch is not supported by Croteam or Seriously and is only available for testing & documentation purposes. Do not use this patch for gaming, map creation, or mod making.

This is the public BETA release of the upcoming 1.50 patch for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. All previous versions can be upgraded directly to 1.50. Note that this is a BETA patch, and therefore will inevitably have some bugs in it. It is being released for you to try out the new features and revised netcode, as well as for bugs to be found and worked out. Please submit bug reports! Bug reports should be sent to bugs@croteam.com and should include a detailed description of the problem, your operating system, video card and driver revision, sound card and driver revision, and processor.

The new features in this patch are:

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...


The delay was mainly caused by problems in Internet multiplay, and that is the reason for this version still carying the 'Beta' mark. Single play is all green, better than ever, and lan multiplay is doing fine too. You can download the file from the mirrors below. Please feel free to mirror this file and report any mirrors to files@seriouszone.com so we can add them to the list.