Sudden Issues with the game.

[Rovaa]

The game has worked fine with me up until now. I start the game and it just crashes once I move my mouse and after it crashes my computer becomes super bright and highly saturated and wont go back to normal until like 10 minutes after. I have no Idea what is wrong or why its screwing with my pc.

[Phoenix]

The screen going bright happens when Q3 crashes in fullscreen mode. It has to do with how it runs overbright and gamma ramping. The usual fix is to open Q3 and shut it down again and it resets the screen brightness properly, but with it crashing that might be difficult. You might be able to just hit the ~ to drop the console and type /quit and maybe that will work.

As for getting around the crash... first I'd verify your game cache and make sure nothing's corrupted. If that checks out and you still have problems, try loading the game and not moving the mouse, but hitting alt + enter to go into windowed mode and see if you can move the mouse without it crashing. If it still crashes you might have a bad setting in your q3config.cfg. You can locate that in your Quake III Arena\baseq3 folder. Rename it to q3config.cfg.txt and restart Q3. It should generate a clean q3config.cfg file. If that fixes it then you can compare settings between the files to find the culprit or just go with the new config and set up the game how you like. If nuking the config file doesn't fix it then you have a problem either with the mouse input, direct-x, or some kind of strange compatibility glitch. If nothing else you can always try IOQuake 3, which is a source port designed to be more compatible with newer OS's as well as having a lot of bug fixes.

Anyway, give some of that a try and let me know what happens. I'll help as much as I can.

[John27]

The bright screen after crash isn't just Quake 3 Arena issue, it affects all games using Q3 Engine AFAIK such as Soldier of Fortune II Double Helix.

Jedi Academy never crashed on me though.

Used to be an XP issue but it happens on 7 and 10 too.

As for the bright screen issue if happen you can try restarting your computer.