Any community patches?

[Jesse Fett - Iron Mandalorian]

On a quake kick since 2 got its remaster and wanted to start this one soon.
Is there any community patches or enhancements that I should look to install and any thing else to optimize visuals and performance? My computer has major screen tearing if I'm not in windowed or borderless, which this game does not have borderless, so if there's any suggestions I would appreciate it!

[Leis]

Quake 4 Tweaker:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1009-quake-4-tweaker/

Sikkmod:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sikkmod-q4/downloads/sikkmod-lite-v12-q4

These 2 are highly recommended :)

[Jesse Fett - Iron Mandalorian]

Thank you! These are great!

[Leis]

You're very welcome, thanks for the award by the way! Quake 4 Tweaker will fix most issues, but there is also some useful information in that discussion:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2210/discussions/0/451848854995385477/

Also, if you decide to use Sikkmod in addition to Tweaker, please note that it is just a mod for visual enhancement, (it won't help directly with performance like the Tweaker).
I particularly use Sikkmod to make dark areas less dark. If you need any help with Sikkmod configs, I can send you some screenshots, well I hope these mods work fine for you.

[Jesse Fett - Iron Mandalorian]

So one odd issue I'm running in to, it's not a huge deal, but when I use the sikkmod, or this quake 2 weapons mod, alot of the environmental textures go really low quality, I changed all the settings accordingly in each mod to what I have set in vanilla Q4 but they remain low, and if I go back into vanilla it will some times remain low until I restart the game. Any possible ideas on that? It isn't the hugest deal, tweaker pretty much did exactly what I was looking for, so if I have to just stick to vanilla I'm not upset

[Jesse Fett - Iron Mandalorian]

Never mind I figured it out! Any one else that has this problem and comes looking, you have to edit the individual mods quake4config.cfg and replace the values with this

seta r_skipSky "0"
seta r_forceAmbient "0"
seta r_debugArrowStep "120"
seta r_debugLineWidth "1"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_useSMP "1"
seta r_skipBump "0"
seta r_skipSpecular "0"
seta r_skipNewAmbient "0"
seta r_renderer "best"
seta r_ignoreHWGamma "1"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "1"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_useIndexBuffers "0"
seta r_customHeight "1080"
seta r_customWidth "1920"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_displayRefresh "0"
seta r_mode "17"
seta r_aspectRatio "1"
seta r_alphaToCoverage "1"
seta r_multiSamples "16"
seta image_downSizeLimit "2048"
seta image_ignoreHighQuality "0"
seta image_downSizeBumpLimit "2048"
seta image_downSizeSpecularLimit "2048"
seta image_downSizeBump "0"
seta image_downSizeSpecular "0"
seta image_useCache "0"
seta image_cacheMegs "100"
seta image_cacheMinK "30"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useNormalCompressionLoadDDSForPal "1"
seta image_useNormalCompression "0"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_useCompression "0"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_lodbias "0"
seta image_anisotropy "16"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"