Hello everyone, since I doubt it's a bug, I rather post it here. I just downloaded the 0.17.66 Generic Linux tar package, unpacked and started the game. Nothing was altered, so no mods or anything. It crashes when creating the bitmaps. Previous versions worked fine on the same machine a few weeks ag...
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