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It's Not 
1024 in pixel size, but the Qauntity of textures inside a single WAD. And there's alot of Wads that contain more than 1024 textures. 
Well I Can Live Without 3.3's Texture Alignment 
But I CAN'T live with abnormally dark textures, not being able to see whats what.

You Were Never One For Meticulous Texture Alignment Though...

Maybe not in the past. But in my latest maps, once they're released, you will see I have taken the extra time to make sure everything is aligned. 
 
@Ricky - No, the issue still persues. But I'm using a mix of the two. 3.3 to construct, 1.6a to texture. It's a slower process due to 1.6a's awkward camera but better than nothing. 
Hmmmm 
Did you try unchecking the "filter textures" tab in the 3D part of the options menu?

Apart from that Im foxed. (?)

Orl - Have you tried getting fixing up the brightness/contrast settings of your video card? Try it with the monitor brightness/contrast BOTH on 100%, then you'll have a colour correction module somewhere.....

I dunno, I respect that everybody has their own way, I'm only trying to help. 
Ricky 
I can adjust my monitor and video card brightness, both are at 50%. At 100%, I can see the textures fine, but everything else is way to bright. I shouldn't have to change the brightness every time I want to do some mapping.

I know WC 3.3 has the option to adjust the brightness for the 2D view gridlines, but none for the 3D view? Wheres the thought in that.

I'm only trying to help.

I know, and I am glad you are, believe me :)
But I'm content with 1.6 and its super slow 3D view and no auto alignment. It suits me well. 
What About Colour Correction/display Optimisation Module? 
Humour me:

1 - Turn monitor contrast/brightness to 100%

2 - Go into your graphics card's software, and find the colour correction module. There's bound to be one if you have hardware from the last 5-6 years. On my system theres a wizard which gives you a red/green/blue line, and you have to match up the colour's tones. Also you have to do an exercise where you have a group of lines going through shades of black to white. The two darkest strips have to both appear black.
I would imagine you have a similar option somewhere on your computer.
Click on windows desktop with the RMB, then click on properties, then go to the settings tab, then click on "advanced". There's probably something there. On my computer it's the NVidia Controll Panel, on ATI computers its the Catalyst Controll Center.

I found after doing this my games also looked better. And it's easier to see the picture on my monitor in sunlight too.

If you either can't be bothered to try this, or already have, or dont have the option then I'm sorry. I give up! All I can say is it worked for me! 
I Must Admit 
I too had the same problem as your'e describing, and experienced the "washed out" look. In XP all of the beige/grey type areas of the windows seemed very white, and dazzling. But when I figured out how to set the monitor up properly I found it to be better than ever before! 
How 
do I delete the weaponvieuw for screenshots? 
Madfox: 
r_drawviewmodel 0 
 
I did a quick google search and found this thread;

http://www.chatbear.com/unity2/12/913,1188737745,4371/1068645/0#7

States exactly the same problem with the same card. Someone mentions a temp-fix that seems to work, by disabling the card, then re-enabling. Though is this practical? Since I don't really want anything to... mess up. 
Thanks 
metlslime. 
Solution Works 
Just tested the solution in the link I mentioned above and it works. The only issue is a drop in speed, but nothing unbearable. Hopefully this can be helpful to anyone else that comes across the same problem. 
But 
r_drawvieuwmodel 0

unknown command. 
Becuase You Spelled It Wrong? 
 
 
try "r_drawvi" and hit TAB. :P 
Because 
I am so stpid! 
Drawvieuwmodel 
mwahaha that sounds so dutch, nice one MadFox 
45 Degree .... Texture Alignment... Can't Quite Remember... 
On some brushes with a 45 degree face, textures ligning up in the editor are 90 degrees out in the game, and vice versa.

I remember two fixes: one was when compiling (-oldaxis ?) and one was in the editor (BspEditor). Anyone know the editor fix? 
 
Not sure ... that's interesting though because I thought it was only ToeTag that did that. Good to know my editor isn't alone in screwing up sometimes. :P 
BspEditor 
File - Preferences - Preferences:
Alt. 45 Deg. Face Texturing checkbox.

Close your map and re-open it to refresh all affected textures (there may be a faster way to do this, but I haven't found it). If you only need to refresh one surface, select it, open the Surface Properties box (hotkey: S), and click one of the Apply buttons. 
Lurker 
Thanks for your help.

I'm using 96b (because support for BspBuild was dropped in 96c) so the sequence is:-

File - Preferences - Game/Directories

then in the Settings Window, from the drop down select Texture

then change the texture_alignment from False to True

then click on Write Bsp.cfg

Everything's fine right now... 
Mashing The Meshing Button 
I'm using fitzquake080(ok, fitzhack080) and testing some code, when I notice a great deal of slowdown. At first I thought I'd created some monstrosity in the progs code, but profile showed nothing out of the ordinary. I eventually remembered what the pentegram at the top right means - disk activity is slowing it down. When I turn on developer mode I discover that some models are getting meshed almost every time I look at them.

I tried deleting glquake folder in the mod directory, but this only worked temporarily. Is it possible that heapsize was too low for the map I was running(tris.bsp)? Would that or something else cause things to be meshed very often when lots of models were onscreen, but for it to die down again when some models got removed? 
Half-Life Wad Editor? 
What's the most popular or prevalent Half-Life wad editor? 
Baker 
Try either XwE (http://www.doomworld.com/xwe/) or Wally (http://www.telefragged.com/wally/index.shtml) 
Holy Shit.... 
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