Fixed my Quake stutter by deleting one line in the config, and I'm mad it took 8 months

Ryan Robinson · 2026-09-16T12:45:05.024656+00:00

My Quake kept hitching every few seconds on a 3060, which makes zero sense for a game from 1996, so I blamed drivers and even swapped my mouse. Last week on a hunch I opened autoexec.cfg and found a leftover line setting com_maxfps to 72 while my monitor runs at 165hz, and the mismatch was fighting itself. Cut that line, locked it to 165, and the hitch vanished in about 10 seconds of testing on dm4. Honestly the whole fix was easier than the 4 hours I wasted watching framerate videos. What dumb little config lines have you all found hiding in your old setups?

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