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Ok everyone, I would say "f*** you all" but I will not. Because you blew an idea I tried to expose to someone here, that everyone or most of Quake players are using r_picmip 12.

Why? I use r_picmip 12, and I see better the enemies! According to this I can go to 999 fps (even if it's not so great to play at this rate) or focus only on the gameplay, not the useless details, the game is smoother, not only at performance but what you are feeling.

So...what the fuck?! What are all those comments, it's completely against what I thought. I'm disappointed of choices done here.

So you posted a topic and you wanted us all to vote for your opinion? Sorry if we don't think the same way that you do Everybody uses what they like, we don't all use r_picmip 12.. polls are posted to hear what other people think, not expecting everybody to vote for one option.

There is absolutely no noticeable difference between r_picmip 8 - 12.

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Making different cfg for each map is allright, but playing with constant high picmip and vertexlight/lightmap rendering can make lazy reactions and crap aim aka unpredicted moves...

i don't think so i am slow, and i am playing with picmip 8 because maps look like chocolate castle yummy yummy, generally for me picmip 8 increases target visibility and speeds up my reaction, while i make fast flicks and moves i don't see map details anyway, though picmpi 0 is good for strafejumping

i also don't see a sense to use more than 8 since at this point everything is chocolate enough

btw. the new maps on elitez server with elitez logo makes major problem with maps textures, it block visibility trough portals, it enforces some map textures to picmip 0 (a overkill bridge for example) and i am completely hate the fact that they changes the look of the original q3 maps

I use highest picmip i can. Obviously a more complex environment will breakup composition and the objects to eyes see first. With flat (high picmip) shade the players models contrast more so they are seen quicker. Also green enemy models are good as green is the color the human eye sees the most of (the greatest range of frequencies) and so naturally draws the human eye to look at it first. The reason we see green more than any other color is because when we were all furry things back in the dawn of time things that hide it green foliage generally tried to jump out and eat us so that why we develop a extra sensitivity to green (and movement).

One other thing engine cap is 333fps a high picmip value will make you fps go up but quake should run at engine cap on today average computers without any config changes at all anyway. As the graphics demand basically nothing. I could run quake 10 instances and still prolly have each one max out its fps.