diff --git a/engine/client/cl_parse.c b/engine/client/cl_parse.c
index 0073f9c7b..ec6e19457 100644
--- a/engine/client/cl_parse.c
+++ b/engine/client/cl_parse.c
@@ -4356,7 +4356,7 @@ void CL_ParseStaticProt (int baselinetype)
 	entity_state_t	es;
 	vec3_t mins,maxs;
 
-	if (baselinetype)
+	if (baselinetype >= 0)
 	{
 		CL_ParseBaseline(&es, baselinetype);
 		i = cl.num_statics;
@@ -6775,7 +6775,7 @@ void CLQW_ParseServerMessage (void)
 			CL_ParseStaticProt (CPNQ_ID);
 			break;
 		case svcfte_spawnstatic2:
-			CL_ParseStaticProt (0);
+			CL_ParseStaticProt (-1);
 			break;
 		case svc_temp_entity:
 #ifdef NQPROT
@@ -7645,7 +7645,7 @@ void CLNQ_ParseServerMessage (void)
 			CLFTE_ParseEntities();
 			break;
 		case svcfte_spawnstatic2:
-			CL_ParseStaticProt (0);
+			CL_ParseStaticProt (-1);
 			break;
 		case svcfte_spawnbaseline2:
 			CL_ParseBaselineDelta ();
diff --git a/engine/client/m_options.c b/engine/client/m_options.c
index 76927a358..26c22e51b 100644
--- a/engine/client/m_options.c
+++ b/engine/client/m_options.c
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ const char *presetexec[] =
 	"seta r_shadow_realtime_dlight 0;"
 	"seta r_shadow_realtime_world 0;"
 	"seta r_glsl_offsetmapping 0;"
+	"seta vid_hardwaregamma 3;"	//people benchmarking against other engines with fte using glsl gamma and the other not is annoying as fuck.
 //	"seta gl_detail 0;"
 	"seta gl_load24bit 0;"
 	"seta r_replacemodels \"\";"
@@ -833,6 +834,7 @@ const char *presetexec[] =
 	//these things are perhaps a little extreme
 	"r_loadlit 0;"
 	"r_nolerp 1;"
+	"seta vid_hardwaregamma 1;"
 	"r_softwarebanding 1;"		//ugly software banding.
 	"d_mipcap 0 2;"				//gl without anisotropic filtering favours too-distant mips too often, so lets just pretend it doesn't exist. should probably mess with lod instead or something
 	"gl_affinemodels 1;"