r_picmip resetting to one everytime I exit and join a new server on linux

[DeadIy]

As the title suggest my autoexec is seta r_picmip "10" but it always resets to "1" everytime I join a game. Having to do vid_restart everytime I join a new server. Im running ubuntu 12.10 and already tried the seta r_lastValidRenderer as the suggested solution. Any help will be appreciated.

[Lorfa]

seta r_picmip 10 is in repconfig.cfg and autoexec.cfg if there is one?

If you have an autoexec, and you don't \writeconfig autoexec after a change, it will not save.

[Yakumo]

seta r_picmip 10 is in repconfig.cfg and autoexec.cfg if there is one?

If you have an autoexec, and you don't \writeconfig autoexec after a change, it will not save.

If you do use /writeconfig autoexec.cfg you need to find the file and remove any "web_" prefix cvar lines from it, or it will stop the start a match or practice game options you chose later from running.

[Lam]

Im running ubuntu 12.10 and already tried the seta r_lastValidRenderer as the suggested solution.

It is still the proper and only solution. You must have done something wrong.

Paste output of:
grep Renderer ~/.quakelive/quakelive/home/baseq3/repconfig.cfg
grep Renderer ~/.quakelive/quakelive/home/baseq3/autoexec.cfg
glxinfo | grep renderer

I'm guessing you either missed the point about putting trailing space there, or something else happened :)

[DeadIy]

Here's what I did the first time I searched the forums. Went on quake and typed in r_lastvalidrenderer and got "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series" and I went to my autoexec in my baseq3 folder and at the end of my long config put in "seta r_lastvalidrenderer "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series" " my r_picmip in autoexec is already 10

[Adderall]

You dont need to use autoexec at all. If you completely remove using it your video settings well always stay the same unless you change it yourself and vid_rsrt. Same thing for weapon binds and everything else but chat spams? or something like that

[Lam]

Adderall, He needs to use autoexec with the single command. That's to work around an ATI/QL bug. No other stuff (like r_picmip) is needed in autoexec if the work-around is in place.

DeadIyNoob, if you did what you say to the letter, you did it wrong. Again: paste my commands into a terminal, paste results back in here. We can't help you otherwise.

[Adderall]

Lam is that needed for *.nix users that have ati issues? Thats good to know if it is. DeadIyNoob have you tried these drivers. Good place to find ati drivers is here -> http://benchmark3d.com/

[Lam]

Lam is that needed for *.nix users that have ati issues?

It's needed to stop QL from resetting picmip to 1 with ATI proprietary drivers. There are open drivers and there are other issues people might have - this workaround won't help there.

Newer drivers won't fix the problem. ATI is dedicated to keeping the bug in, it's there for years and no sign of change :)

Why do you link Windows drivers to a Linux user? Is that your way of suggesting him to switch OS? :)

[Adderall]

I didn't even think about taht when I linked them. I dont see that driver for *.nix ;/