Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope

Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is a gallery shooter that requires minimal movement from the player, but like SPT, it requires you turn your head rapidly from side to side. The Serious Sam games are also known for being fast-paced and filled with loads of enemies, which we expected to push the limits of our test system.


Based on our test results, we can emphatically say that you won’t be able to play this game at full rendering resolution any time soon. Our GTX 1070 coughed and sputtered while trying to keep up with the game in Normal FOV, and it didn’t even deliver 40 fps. The RTX 2080 didn’t do much better with an average of 53.34 delivered fps.


Even with SteamVR’s recommended 64 percent scaling, the RTX 2080 couldn’t quite reach the 70 fps mark. The GTX 1070 with 36 percent scaling averaged 74.11 fps.

Arizona Sunshine

Arizona Sunshine taxes your CPU as hard or harder than it does the GPU. With the high resolution of the Pimax 5K+, it was perhaps the GPU that took the harder hit, but we can’t help but think that a more powerful CPU would have improved the outcome of our tests.


Our GTX 1070 struggled hard in this game at Normal resolution scaling. In fact, I nearly stopped the benchmark early because I was starting to feel a bit queasy. Our results showed that the GPU never exceeded 38.23 fps and averaged 32.96 fps. At this level of performance, reprojection doesn’t really help, and in this kind of game, reprojection makes it much more difficult to hit your target. Even if you can stomach the low frame rate, playing with this much reprojection negatively affects the gameplay.


In this game, our RTX 2080 performed significantly better than the GTX 1070 compared to other games, but the performance was, again, far short of the desired mark, with an average of 56.93 fps. SteamVR’s recommended resolution offered a slight bump in performance, but 64 fps won’t get you away from reprojection.