ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I recently heard about this game on the somethingawful forums and it sounded nifty, so I figured I'd give it a try. Game has other ideas, apparently! I'm running WinXP 32 bit and when I try to start it up, it sticks at 0% loading for as long as I'll allow the process to sit there. After digging around for a while, I found te4_log and stderr in the main directory. They seem related to the problem so I'll post the contents here.

logfile:

[CPU] Detected 2 CPUs
OpenAL device available: DirectSound Default (default DirectSound Default)
OpenAL device available: WaveOut Default (default DirectSound Default)
OpenAL device available: No Output (default DirectSound Default)
Available video driver: windows
Available video driver: dummy
NO SELFEXE: bootstrapping from CWD
Booting T-Engine from: D:\Roguelikes\TOME\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta37\t-engine.exe
SelfExe gave us app directory of: D:\Roguelikes\TOME\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta37\
LuaVM: LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta8 x86
Creating particles thread 0
LuaVM: LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta8 x86
[DO RESIZE] 800x600 (0)
OpenGL max texture size: 8192
OpenGL max texture size: 8192
===fbo 1
Running lua loader code...
Reboot using te4 LATEST boot player false
[ENGINE LOADER] available from teae: te4-0.9.37
[ENGINE LOADER] found engines te4={[1]={[1]=0.000000 , [2]=9.000000 , [3]=37.000000 , [4]="te4" , [5]=17.000000 , ["load_teae"]="/engines/te4-0.9.37.teae" , } , } __byname={["te4-0.9.37"]=true , }
[ENGINE LOADER] looked in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Nathilus\\T-Engine\4.0
bootstrap
D:\Roguelikes\TOME\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta37\\game\thirdparty
D:\Roguelikes\TOME\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta37\\game
[ENGINE LOADER] sorted: te4 0 9 37
[ENGINE LOADER] loading engine: 0 9 37 te4
[ENGINE LOADER] using archived engine: /engines/te4-0.9.37.teae
Using cached font /data/font/Vera.ttf 12
Available resolutions: 2048x1536x32
Available resolutions: 1920x1440x32
Available resolutions: 1920x1200x32
Available resolutions: 1920x1080x32
Available resolutions: 1680x1050x32
Available resolutions: 1600x1200x32
Available resolutions: 1600x1024x32
Available resolutions: 1600x900x32
Available resolutions: 1366x768x32
Available resolutions: 1360x768x32
Available resolutions: 1280x1024x32
Available resolutions: 1280x960x32
Available resolutions: 1280x800x32
Available resolutions: 1280x768x32
Available resolutions: 1280x720x32
Available resolutions: 1152x864x32
Available resolutions: 1024x768x32
Available resolutions: 800x600x32
Available resolutions: 720x576x32
Available resolutions: 720x480x32
Available resolutions: 640x480x32
Available resolutions: 2048x1536x16
Available resolutions: 1920x1440x16
Available resolutions: 1920x1200x16
Available resolutions: 1920x1080x16
Available resolutions: 1680x1050x16
Available resolutions: 1600x1200x16
Available resolutions: 1600x1024x16
Available resolutions: 1600x900x16
Available resolutions: 1366x768x16
Available resolutions: 1360x768x16
Available resolutions: 1280x1024x16
Available resolutions: 1280x960x16
Available resolutions: 1280x800x16
Available resolutions: 1280x768x16
Available resolutions: 1280x720x16
Available resolutions: 1152x864x16
Available resolutions: 1024x768x16
Available resolutions: 800x600x16
Available resolutions: 720x576x16
Available resolutions: 720x480x16
Available resolutions: 640x480x16
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: move
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: hotkeys
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: inventory
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: actions
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: interface
[KEYBINDER] Loaded keybinds: debug
Switching resolution to 1536x1152 1536 1152 false
Setting resolution to 1536x1152 (windowed)
[DO RESIZE] 1536x1152 (0)
OpenGL max texture size: 8192
[RESOLUTION] changed to 1370 753 from 1370 753
Creating profile thread
[PROFILE] mounted online on /current-profile
[PROFILE] unmounted online from /current-profile
[ENGINE] Setting requested FPS to 30 (33 ms)
[ENGINE] Switching to turn based
LuaVM: LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta8 x86
TE4Online starting...
Creating module boot-te4-0.9.37.team :: (as dir) false :: (as team) 16
Loaded module definition for boot-0.9.37 using engine te4-0.9.37
Creating module example :: (as dir) true :: (as team) nil
Loaded module definition for example-1.0.0 using engine te4-0.9.37
Creating module example_realtime :: (as dir) true :: (as team) nil
Loaded module definition for example_realtime-1.0.0 using engine te4-0.9.37
Creating module tome-3.9.37.team :: (as dir) false :: (as team) 12
[PROFILE] Thread connected to te4.org
[ONLINE PROFILE] reconnecting to channels
Loaded module definition fo

stderr:

PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (Unable to initialize: attempt to call a string value)

If you need any other information let me know, I won't be futzing with anything else until I get word.

EDIT: We're chatting about this problem in the SA games thread for tome as well, and people who aren't having my problem also have that error in their stderr file, so it might be unrelated.

In another thread a user had a similar problem and fixed it by first running and installing B31. I went ahead and tried it and amazingly it worked for me too. Don't know what the deal is but I'll leave this here in case it is of help to anyone else.

Most of the people having problems have been using Windows 7 64-bit, so the usual "check your video drivers, etc." may not apply. That `PANIC` line you are getting isn't something to worry about (oddly enough) and the error if any is actually lower down but not being flushed to the disk. If you can right-click on your executable and pass `--flush-stdout` as a command-line argument to the executable you may be able to see the error you are having. It doesn't hurt to update graphics drivers, either. Good luck!

I have exactly the same thing happen with b37, b38 and b39. (currently downloading b40) b31 works just fine for me; the ones in between I have not tested.