BLUEGAMER

A poster on the Evil Avatar forums posted a tiny tweak guide that actually makes Quake Wars play at an enjoyable level. Basically, it turns of a 30fps lock, which I find to be unnecessary for the Beta. It is probably on to keep everyone's game running at a similar level, possibly to create less technical problems for people trying to enjoy playing on lower-end systems. The odd thing about that is this is a Beta. Usually people that play a Beta have pretty decent rigs, or know how to adjust settings for it to play well. I used the following instructions:

First off, go to My Documents/Enemy Territory Quake Wars Beta/base. This is where we'll be doing our work.

You have to have "Hide File Extensions for known file types" unchecked in Control Panel --> Folder Options --> View on Windows XP.

Create a new text document and name it "autoexec.cfg"

Now you have a blank CFG file.

Note: The cfg tweaks I'm giving you here are basic, and are targeted towards systems with 1-2 GB of RAM, a 256MB videocard that's decent, and having a max of 60 FPS. If you've got an 8800 series, you can change it to 90 FPS or so for even smoother gameplay.

Copy the following into it...
Code:

r_useSMP 1
image_useCache 1
image_cacheMegs 256
image_cacheMinK 3072
cm_backFaceCull 1
r_usePortals 1
r_orderIndexes 1
r_useOptimizedShadows 1
r_useShadowCulling 1
r_useLightCulling 3
r_ignoreGLErrors 1
r_useIndexBuffers 0
r_useStateCaching 1
r_useVertexBuffers 1
r_useCachedDynamicModels 1
r_useTwoSidedStencil 1
r_useTurboShadow 1
r_useShadowVertexProgram 1
r_useShadowProjectedCull 1
r_useTripleTextureARB 1
r_useConstantMaterials 1
g_projectileLights 1
image_preload 1
com_showfps 1
com_unlock_timingmethod 1
com_unlockFPS 1
com_unlock_maxfps 60

Save and you're done! This also enables an FPS counter in the corner, if you don't like it erase the "com_showfps 1" line.

Using the above, I also changed the maxfps to 90 given my Sli setup. I enjoyed the match I played. Aiming was much more enjoyable and I actually leveled-up. It still has its issues, though, but this is much more promising.

-Adam