ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Apparently my copy of ToME is super cursed. The last couple years I would get horrific lag spikes that made the game largely impossible to play (documented here viewtopic.php?t=50709, never resolved). Decided to try to play again after a while and now it throws me Lua errors when I click New Game. Very sad.

te4_log uploaded here: https://pastebin.com/GKBUx5ui

Would appreciate any help!

Not 100% sure, but that error typically means that it tried to load the ORCS dlc twice.
The location of the DLC mods was changed a while ago, and for some people they end up with a copy of the files in both locations, and the engine tries to load both.

Easiest solution is to delete the entire install and reinstall it.

HousePet wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:52 pm Not 100% sure, but that error typically means that it tried to load the ORCS dlc twice.
The location of the DLC mods was changed a while ago, and for some people they end up with a copy of the files in both locations, and the engine tries to load both.

Easiest solution is to delete the entire install and reinstall it.

I actually did uninstall and reinstall (using the Steam client) and I'm still getting the bork. Going to try again real quick, but I don't expect success this time.

e: yep, no dice.

Search your TOME4 folder for 'orcs.teaac'. There should only be one of these.

The only other thing that could cause that error is an addon inexplicably trying to define a timed effect used in the orcs dlc.

The game/addons folder only has one copy of orcs.teaac in it.

The only other addons I have in the folder besides the official ones are the ignore locks ones, and the log was generated with both of them disabled.

I guess it could be corrupted. Try deleting the orcs dlc file and have the engine download a fresh one?
I don't trust uninstallation of anything to actually remove bad files.

And we likely need to try removing the world.teaa file as well. This is located in your documents folder instead.

theshim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:56 am The game/addons folder only has one copy of orcs.teaac in it.

The only other addons I have in the folder besides the official ones are the ignore locks ones, and the log was generated with both of them disabled.

The game/addons folder shouldn't have any copies of orcs.teaac in it because the DLCs reside in game/dlcs

Deleting the orcs.teaac and redowloading it in the engine appears to have worked. Which is good, because I couldn't find world.teaa to delete that

Moasseman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:39 am

theshim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:56 am The game/addons folder only has one copy of orcs.teaac in it.

The only other addons I have in the folder besides the official ones are the ignore locks ones, and the log was generated with both of them disabled.

The game/addons folder shouldn't have any copies of orcs.teaac in it because the DLCs reside in game/dlcs

The only file in game/dlcs is ashes-urhrok.teaac

Also if you're still having slowdown, do ya got a controller plugged in to the machine?

Moasseman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:55 am Also if you're still having slowdown, do ya got a controller plugged in to the machine?

Don't know yet if I'm having slowdown, but I will say that at no point have I ever had a controller plugged into my computer.

Well, turns out the repeated hanging is still here, so the game is basically unplayable.

Where is world.teaa supposed to be, anyway? I can't find it.

%userprofile%\T-Engine\4.0\tome\save

Well, I found it (though it was world.teaw, curiously), and just for the hell of it I deleted it. Did not help, still getting the horrible lag spikes. I feel like I need to just nuke every aspect of the game from orbit at this point, nothing seems to work. I miss ToME