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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:18:24 GMT, muktheknife®
<mukhp@NOSPAMhotmail.com> :

>Hi
>
>Does anyone know why my quake crashes when this map comes into
>rotation?
>
>I get a Qauke error every time. Has happened on a number of servers.
>
>Any help will be welcome.


As indicated, any help will be welcome!! Is this a common problem? 

TIA

"muktheknife" <mukhp@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:18:24 GMT, muktheknifeŽ
> <mukhp@NOSPAMhotmail.com> :
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Does anyone know why my quake crashes when this map comes into
> >rotation?
> >
> >I get a Qauke error every time. Has happened on a number of servers.
> >
> >Any help will be welcome.
>
>
> As indicated, any help will be welcome!! Is this a common problem?
>
> TIA

Heh - sorry - I was waiting too!
Sounds to me like the map (the copy you have) is corrupt or has been altered
as per the original - so everytime you get a request from the server for
this map, the game crashes because the version you have is not compatible.
Possible solution then - > delete this map and download it once more from a
server.  Good luck -

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>
>Heh - sorry - I was waiting too!
>Sounds to me like the map (the copy you have) is corrupt or has been altered
>as per the original - so everytime you get a request from the server for
>this map, the game crashes because the version you have is not compatible.
>Possible solution then - > delete this map and download it once more from a
>server.  Good luck -


Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately, even after deleting the current
map and downloading one from a server, it then proceeded to load the
new map and almost immdiately gave me the same quake error.  :(

any other possible ideas?

thanks.

muktheknife®

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:18:24 GMT, muktheknife®
<mukhp@NOSPAMhotmail.com> :

>Hi
>
>Does anyone know why my quake crashes when this map comes into
>rotation?
>
>I get a Qauke error every time. Has happened on a number of servers.
>
>Any help will be welcome.


aw imagine when i saw 4 new posts in the group and thought someone had
a suggestion to my problem, only to find desktop mania had once again
taken over.

Try removing any custom .pk3 files and loading a "pure" q3 instance to rule 
out any bad shader, texture or model files that could be using the same name 
as something in the map you're having problems with.

to simplify, make a new text file in your baseq3 folder with the following 
lines:

rename *.pk3 *.pk
rename pak*.pk pak*.pk3
rename ra3map*.pk ra3map*.pk3

save the file, and rename to makepure.bat and double-click the file you just 
made.  Then fire up ra3 again and try to load the map.  If you're still 
having problems post the error message here. If you aren't having the 
problem any more, the problem lies in another .pk3 file somewhere in your 
baseq3 folder.  At that point, start renaming the .pk files back to .pk3 a 
few at a time (if you have a lot of them I'd do something like 5 at at time) 
until you find the error pop up, then you have to rename the one(s) you just 
renamed back to *.pk one at at time until your problem disappears.. the last 
one you rename that allows you to load the map without errors is the 
culprit - either look for and updated version of that map/model/whatever or 
just discard it and live without it. 

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:03:11 GMT, "LoTekGuru"
<lotekguru@NOSPAMhotmail.com> :

>Try removing any custom .pk3 files and loading a "pure" q3 instance to rule 
>out any bad shader, texture or model files that could be using the same name 
>as something in the map you're having problems with.
>
>to simplify, make a new text file in your baseq3 folder with the following 
>lines:
>
>rename *.pk3 *.pk
>rename pak*.pk pak*.pk3
>rename ra3map*.pk ra3map*.pk3
>
>save the file, and rename to makepure.bat and double-click the file you just 
>made.  Then fire up ra3 again and try to load the map.  If you're still 
>having problems post the error message here. If you aren't having the 
>problem any more, the problem lies in another .pk3 file somewhere in your 
>baseq3 folder.  At that point, start renaming the .pk files back to .pk3 a 
>few at a time (if you have a lot of them I'd do something like 5 at at time) 
>until you find the error pop up, then you have to rename the one(s) you just 
>renamed back to *.pk one at at time until your problem disappears.. the last 
>one you rename that allows you to load the map without errors is the 
>culprit - either look for and updated version of that map/model/whatever or 
>just discard it and live without it. 
>
>
>

wow thanks lotek will start this process tonight. will keep ya posted.

(still using the 6600GT here - hoping to upgrade within the next few
months. shall keep ya posted!)