I started my quake journey back in '96, eventually moved over to counterstrike in 1999, and after all these years, I decided to jump back into Quake. Unfortunately, my return has been extremely frustrating due to persistent micro-stuttering/frame-pacing issues that ruin the experience.

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• RTX 4070 Ti OC 12GB
• 32GB DDR4 @ 3200MHz
• Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD
• Windows 11 (fully updated)
• MSI MAG251RX (1080p @ 240Hz, G-Sync Compatible)

Even though I easily get 150+ FPS, I experience frequent, if not constant hitches and micro-stutters...just ruins the whole thing for me.

In games like Doom Eternal, I get considerably higher framerates with zero stutters or frame drops. My hardware/thermals seem totally fine.

In-Game Settings (Following a popular Steam Performance Guide):

• Resolution Scale: 80%
• Shadow Quality: Medium
• Lighting Quality: Medium
• Effects Quality: Medium
• Texture Quality: Low
• Details: Medium
• Post Processing: Low
• Antialiasing: FXAA
• Texture Filtering: High
• Gore: ON

Help?? :((

Thanks in advance.

Patch 1.31 changed only Ranger and fixed Scale ult, but i think its good idea to make cut in statistic for latest patch (that can stay for a while).

Whenever i ask someone who was around at that time they reply with some variation of "skill gap too large" and i just dont believe the skill gap was the main culprit of such a large downfall when theres lots of other games just as mechanically demanding as quake if not more that are extremely popular and have millions of players there has to be something else

since it seems that QC has gotten it’s final update in terms of any serious fixes/balance, has anyone given some thought to what the games tier list might look like moving forward ? I can’t imagine it might look any different from how it’s been seeing as there weren’t any serious changes, but now that there won’t be any buffs/nerfs I’m curious to see yalls opinion on what the final chart looks like now that everything is said and done. Cheers :D

Hey! hope someone can help me out.

I saw the new update that came out and wanted to play, but it crashes anytime i start up the game.

Im on Debian 13 Linux. AMD GPU and using steam native. Depending on which proton version i use it either doesn't even launch, or shows a blackscreen then crashes with a blank error report pop-up.

edit: solved itself somehow after switching to proton 9 again for the 5th time.

So with the end of updates I decided I would try to play again since it seems like there a bit of buzz around the game.

I am currently stuck on the daily rewards screen, is there something wrong or did I miss some details and the game is dead and there are no servers

There’s not much time left before the tournament begins, and so far only two teams are registered:

cYpheR & RELL
AGENT & KAK_AGENT

Now is the time to find a teammate, build your duo and jump into the fight for the title! Let’s see who can challenge the teams already signed up.

Prize pool = $100:

1st place = $70
2nd place = $30

Find your teammate and register before the tournament starts:

Signup: https://egb.net/cup#/t/ql-egb-cup-2v2-69

https://steamdb.info/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/611500/Quake_Champions/

Step 24: interesting that the PTS Channel is now back on the Quake Discord (also interesting that Sync posted "I'd uninstall PTS until you hear news of a new test") Are future QC updates still possible?