ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Hello and first, thanks for making such a great game. I have been playing beta 28 quite a bit recently. I downloaded today beta 29, but it seems it will simply not work on my computer. The process t-engine.exe takes all the CPU cycles it can get when it is started, and memory usage is stays around 20 MiB. After a few minutes, memory usage goes down to 2 MiB, but there is no improvement as far as CPU usage is concerned. I have tried letting it run for about 10 minutes before killing the process with the task manager. I am running te4 on Windows XP SP 3 and my system specs are as follows:
Athlon XP 2000+
2 GiB DDR
GeForce 7800 GS
As you can see, my system is pathetically weak by today's standards. I have tried upgrading my graphics card driver to the latest version, and it didn't help. Do you have any suggestions as to what I could try next?

Edit: I forgot to mention that the main windows pops up but I can see nothing on it.

I may have the same problem, but I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on a pretty new computer (Intel i7-2630QM, nVidia GeForce GTX 460M, 6GB RAM). I get 100% processor use on one thread and a black windowed screen. I was able to see a screen after resizing it maybe five times, but the processor use stays up there even if I turn off all video options and severely reduce the resolution, framerate, and particle density.

Resizing does not help in my case. Minimizing t-engine to the taskbar instantly brings the memory usage to 2 MiB. I also tried deleting the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\T-Engine", which did not help. The folder is not rebuilt when I start the program.

This should be useful... This is the content of the file te4_log.txt

[CPU] Detected 1 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)
NO SELFEXE: bootstrapping from CWD
Booting T-Engine from: E:\Applications\angbands\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta29\t-engine.exe
SelfExe gave us app directory of: E:\Applications\angbands\t-engine4-windows-1.0.0beta29\
Lua Error: /loader/pre-init.lua:23: JIT compiler disabled, CPU does not support SSE2
At [C]:-1
At [C]:-1 on
At /loader/pre-init.lua:23
Creating particles thread 0
Lua Error: /loader/pre-init.lua:23: JIT compiler disabled, CPU does not support SSE2
At [C]:-1
At [C]:-1 on
At /loader/pre-init.lua:23
OpenGL max texture size: 4096
OpenGL max texture size: 4096
Running lua loader code...
Reboot using te4 LATEST boot player false
[ENGINE LOADER] available from dir: te4-0.9.29
Lua Error: /loader/init.lua:81: attempt to call field 'serialize' (a nil value)
At [C]:-1 serialize
At /loader/init.lua:81 load
At /loader/init.lua:132

Ewww .. CPUs taht cant do SSE2 ... that cant still exists !! :/
Ok I'll make a release with it disabled for really old cpus :/

That's really nice of you... Thank you very much. I'll start looking for a new computer... Maybe I can find one if I look hard enough on garbage collection day. Since no one else has reported any issue, I'll try to compile it to avoid wasting your time just to please one person.

I managed to compile it, but my build gives the same error messages. In premake4.lua, I set in the build options for the debug build "-mno-sse2", but it makes no change to the te4_log file, although the executable size changed slightly. I must be doing something wrong...

Compile it using the premake flag like that:

premake4 --lua=default gmake

That should work

That option really slimmed down the size of the executable! And it works! Thank you.

Cool
I'll add a no-sse2 executable to the new betas then

Can you change the line 23 in game/loader/pre-init.lua from to See if it works (with the executable that didnt work obviously)

That works for me now.
Would be easier if the lua files had end of line characters

They have But silly windows cant tell apart correct line endings

Ok I've included a proper fix for next beta then, thanks!