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« on: July 23, 2013, 12:09:56 PM »
Hi all,

I have been playing with the console and now  the graphics are slow Cheesy
How can I reset all my OA settings to factory default?

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm on a Mac.

thanks
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2013, 12:45:20 PM »
AFAIK, in <personal folder>/openarena/baseoa there's a file called q3config.cfg. Rename it to q3config.bak and try.
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2013, 01:11:36 PM »
Thanks a lot!
I found it in ~/Library/Application Support/OpenArena/
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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2013, 12:05:28 PM »
If it goes slow due to you set a very low com_maxfps value, you may use some patience and use the console to set com_maxfps 90 again, even if it will be shown slowly. Or you may even change its value directly from q3config.cfg file (with a text editor, when the game is closed).
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2013, 06:07:24 PM »
I'd also like to know what is specifically causing a slowdown. The common factors are:

r_flares = the method to do flares is an expensive z depth pixel read.
r_bloom = renders the scene to a texture which is then rendered on top of the scene. Can be expensive on weak cards such as the FX5200 and tile-based hardware such as PowerVR
r_detailtextures = renders detail stages, which are typically fine detail patterns on walls. Anything after a Voodoo2 shouldn't have a problem with this, however the increase in texture switching will make it worse for OpenGL ES hardware.
r_primitives = allows selection of methods on drawing polygons. 0 is automatic
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asking when OA3 will be done won't get OA3 done.
Progress of OA3 currently occurs behind closed doors alone

I do not provide technical support either.

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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2013, 04:59:45 AM »
Hi fromHell,

It didn't crawl to an end, it was just that my frame rate dropped to what I considered was "choppy".
I don't think there is any bug here, I just went a bit over what my GPU could do.

It might have been the detailed textures, but I also tinkered with shadows and stuff, so I'm really not sure what caused the (slight) slow down. And thats because I wasn't sure that I asked about resetting everything.

thanks for this great game.

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