Public beta (unsupported) patch for Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, updating the game to version 1.50. All versions can be upgraded using this patch.
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...