ok, so ive been searchin these forums for hours now and cant find anything related so here goes.

this strange thing happend about 4 days ago, some textures in certain maps arent loading up (see pics below).
first i thought i may need to reinstall q3 so i uninstalled all the mods and patches then finally the game, restarted pc and ran a registry cleaner to get rid of anythin that may be causing it, then proceeded to run a fresh install of the game.
after installin it i tested it with the original 1.30 patch and still had the same problem, i installed the 1.32 patch and all other mods and still have the problem. i have run dxdiag and everything seems to be ok, no errors reported.
with the pic titled hmm.jpg there is a message in the console, it may be related to this texture or not, i dunno, i cant actually work it out, i have checked the location of the texture and the file is there but for some reason not loading it.
any help would really be greatly appreciated coz im all out of ideas