Installed old 93.71 forceware drivers and it works!

Unfortunately no change Thank you for the help though. At this point it's more of a curiosity than anything else.

I need to reinstall windows anyway so I will do it sometime this week if I have to. I'm just curious what could cause this because I've never seen anything like it either.

No big change. Although it effected the appearance slightly, changing video settings does it too:

No luck

And by patching Q3 do you mean the point release? If so 1.32 is applied.

I made a fresh install of quake 3 last night (haven't played in several months) and was greeted with this: http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p301/hapsu/q3weird.jpg I have a fairly good computer. I run TF2 on high settings smoothly. I know that this isn't an overheating issue because I can actually ...