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On Spearhead (and Breakthrough), if you set the game to low texture detail, the sky will disappear and a huge amount of fog will appear. I'm unable to run some levels of Spearhead on Medium texture detail because this laptop isn't all-powerful, so I have to set it to Low texture detail, but no sky and lots of fog is needless, and gives me a big disadvantage on multiplayer (the main place where I must use Low texture detail, though single player still applies).

What can I do to ensure that, on Low texture detail, I will draw a sky and won't get huge amounts of fog?

I do realize that the fog is for a closer clipping plane, but it's not necessary to remove everything just because texture detail is on Low. And there's just no point in not having a sky.

Set detail on medium, and type r_picmip 2 in console then vid_restart

That was quick!
I can't test it out right now, because I'm at school (and I'll have to go to class soon, so I can't make any replies).
But, uh... What does r_picmip 2 do? Just wandering.

r_picmip x scales down textures with a factor 0.5^x. So r_picmip 2 scales down textures with a factor 0.25. This is applied in both directions, so the total texture memory usage drops with a factor 0.5^(2x). With r_picmip 2 you're only using one eight of the texture memory as is the case with r_picmip 0 (highest detail). Ofcourse, this difference is very noticable in image quality.

I'm afraid that r_picmip 2 will still make the game add fog and remove the sky.
I'm sure you're already aware, but I just want it to be noted that Allied Assault (not Spearhead or Breakthrough) will not remove the sky or add fog if the texture detail is on Low.

You need more confidence m8

No, I already tested it earlier during lunch. Sadly, confidence won't make the sky appear, or the fog stop being extra-foggy. r_picmip 2 doesn't work, it's just like manually turning the texture detail to Low in the menu. Even if I do it in the middle of a level, the sky will still disappear and the map will become foggy once I switch from r_picmip 1 to r_picmip 2.

Aww dang... well it was worth a try

So there's no way to fix this problem? Oh, well. Curses to the idiots that put that into Spearhead, anyway.