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As Aguire Said: 
make sure your liquids and skies are in the wad. 
Kell 
I think I forgot to mention this one, but DeathMongor had a id metal/rune themed SP map. cheggit here:

http://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/games/planetquake/deathmonger/dm1m2.zip
http://ftp.sunet.se/planetquake/deathmonger/dm1m2.zip 
R.P.G. 
thx, already played it :)
nice use of the textures/insanely high density of monsters 
Omgomgomg 
I changed from subdiv 270 to 256 and now it suddenly works. Tyrann, did you ever know that you're my hero? I'll put up some screenshots of what I have so far in an hour or so.

That dm1m2 map is pretty ok. There are some tough battles in there. I had to finish with an axe. 
Yeah 
The map is not exceptional, and is pretty hit and miss. However, Kell had asked me for a list of good id metal/run themed maps, so I rattled off some random maps. I wasn't sure if I included that one, but it turns out that I did. 
Aye 
R.P.G. is teh man with teh metal 
Pushplay 
I think 256 is the absolute maximum, so it's probably safer to set it just below that. TreeQBSP defaults to 240. 
Frib 
Probably the missing sky/water/whatever texture is your problem, but if not, try setting subdivide a bit lower also. 
I Got The Impression... 
that it had to be LESS than 256. So 255.9999... would be the max, but 240 is the default becuase it's 16 aligned. I can't remember the source of this impression, though. 
Second That 
I had thought that subdiv 240 is rather dumb and results in uneffective splits and increased r_speeds, but compiling with subdivide 256 eventually started to crash quake with that
"badfaced error" (it was only in GL quake afair) 
Extents 
Not sure how well this code will post, but from model.c:

if (!(tex->flags & TEX_SPECIAL) && s->extents[i] > 256)
Sys_Error("Bad surface extents");


So, you can make them equal to 256, but due to precision limitations it's easy to spill just over that limit if you're aiming too close. 
Here's The Weird Part 
I based my bat file off of someone else's, which was where my -subdiv 270 came from. Probably someone from here. At the time I didn't know what most of the compile options did and I'm still not entirely sure about some of them. I wonder if 270 was working for him? 
Best Blonde Joke Evar. 
Yeah Wrath 
It's great cause you can fool all sorts of people, but it's really just a different take on the same old thing. 
Hehe 
Nice. It goes pretty deep, but I finally found it cycling back on itself. 
Oh 
And it's a lot more amusing to show it to someone else.

"That's about the fifth time I--Oh. I see."

haha 
Subdivide 
well if 240 sucks and 256 crashes, what am I supposed to use? :D

I`ll try taking it lower than 256, but if the r_speeds blow out I might just change it back, since I was only getting the BAD SURFACE EXTENTS error in WinQuake, I might just ignore it... nobody uses WinQuake, right? (surely not!) It`s a deathmatch map though, so I`ll have to check if it crashes software qwcl.exe

p.s thanks for the tips but all my textures appear to be present in the wads, so that isn`t the problem (nor is it a brush with 2 or more animated textures on it).

Thanks for the help guys. 
240 Is Default 
so you might as well just use it.

as for winquake/qwcl compatability, i believe the renderer for all the software engines is basically the same. 
Test 
test 
Qw Ffa Day 
The qw ffa day will be on Sunday 3pm EST. We will play cheshires maps starting with chesdm1 and ending with chesdm4. 
That Reminds Me: 
i recently got this email from:
rozbehiusa@yahoo.com
[i thought some of you might be interested, plus the sites themselves are pretty cool - UWF].

Im admin on www.nqeu.tk and wanna see if you wanna help us out there with writing news about new maps or anything related to Quake1.
The site was originaly only in swedish 5-6 years ago but now the past 2 years its english and dedicated for the Quakers around the world!
We are around 10 ppl in the staff and growing by week.

We are on daily bases on our IRC channel ( #RQ ) on irc.quakenet.org were we often meet and talk about news etc.
Recently we released a movie with www.nqmovie.tk and it have been a smashhit all around the world, from brazil -> sweden -> australia.

Im also head admin on www.quakeworld.nu, the portal for all quakeworld players and working in lots of other projects!
Hopefully you can help us out in one way or another.

/Sassa 
You Know, 
if I'd bloody looked in that fucking drawer seven hours ago, I'd have found that Win95 install CD and saved myself hours of grief.

(Got the parts, formatted the HD, went mad trying to copy across an existing install.) 
Fatty 
If I was installing win95, it would not be _hours_ of grief I would worry about. 
Wanna Bet? 
Gah! Bloody Win95 won't install at all!

For some reason, it keeps claiming that there's a "compressed disk" on my nice, clean, newly formatted (and now reformatted) hard disk. If I ignore that, the setup crashes with "can't copy files" or some similar rot.

I've tried fdisk and reformatting, but same joy... and a hidden file called "drvspace.bin" which refuses to be deleted, or accessed in any way at all.

I'm in a jam here; I guess I'll just have to take the goddamn box to someone and see what they can do with it. Sigh... 
I Dont Know But... 
perhaps the drive is formatted as FAT32 and not FAT16? Or perhaps the drive is too big.. I think WIN98 allowed much bigger capacity than 95... 
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