DirectQ error when starting some levels

[Ponneking]

In DirectQ, staring some levels give me an error.
It says:

"an unhandled exception occurred" and the game crashes to desktop.

Does anyone have the same problem or know a fix to it?

[Spirit]

Whenever you turn to others for help make sure to tell them all the details. In this case: WHICH levels?

[Ponneking]

Whenever you turn to others for help make sure to tell them all the details. In this case: WHICH levels?

E2M1
E3M5
E3M6
E3M7
E4M3
E4M6
E4M7
E4M8

All other levels work flawlessly

[Spirit]

Oh wow, I was kinda hoping it would be custom maps, that could have been easier.

Do you have any mods installed? Try with a barebones Quake installation, just one directory like this:

CleanQuake\DirectQ.exe
CleanQuake\id1\pak0.pak
CleanQuake\id1\pak1.pak

If the error still exists I am lost.

[Ponneking]

I noticed if I set all settings to default it works on all maps.
Just gonna have to try all settings and see what causes it.

This is going to be a long night...

[Ponneking]

I solved it!

It turns out it was all caused by setting the option "fullbrights" to "Off"
Then it would not work.
If it is on "On" (the default) it will always work.
The "fullbrights" setting is found in "effects and other options"

I hope this will help somebody else searching the web for answers someday.

[Spirit]

Lucky!

Can you tell what kind of graphics chip you use and what version of drivers? latest version of DirectQ (1.9.0), right?

[Ponneking]

Lucky!

Can you tell what kind of graphics chip you use and what version of drivers? latest version of DirectQ (1.9.0), right?

GTX 670 SLI
Drivers are 320.49
DirectQ 1.9.0

But I wonde why only those levels were affected.

[Spirit]

Fullbrights refers to textures with "always full brightness" texture on them. Do you definitely have no texture mods installed? Maybe those maps share some textures, I'll look into that.

[Spirit]

No textures are shared exclusively between those maps. No idea.