ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I was talking to a friend and I wanted to show him how broken oozemancer and swift hands where, but for some reason my old tome4 versions won't load.

Posting here since it isn't really an issue to fix just a dumb question.

At what stage does it fail? Do they not run at all?

It doesn't bring up the char gen screen, loads to 100% but that's it. No addons on either. Weirdly enough it worked a few weeks ago.