Alright, I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this.

I played this game a year or two ago and it worked fine. I just installed the newest version and tried starting it up, but it crashes at the start every time (I'm lucky to get a flash of the SDLapp header bar before it closes). So I back track and try the old version that worked and it's the same there.

When I open my stderr file, it reads "failed to open history.log" in both versions. That's the only error message I get - no typical 'Toribash encountered a problem and needs to close', nothing. I always tried installing another version (4.3) and got the same result there, too. I'm really not sure what to do.

OS etc?

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=319579

SkullFuk should know where Search located at
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Had the exact same problem some time ago.

I was being hospitable

A direct search for 'GFX drivers' on Google led me to Intel's page, but I don't have an Intel card (and the auto detect function there told me as much). I did update my AMD drivers but I'm still having the problem.

On a side note, I can't find any reference to Visual C++ besides the programming environment Visual Studio - I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be updating there. Did you possibly mean the .NET framework?

He meant this:

H) Visual C++ for version 3.91 onwards.

Version 3.91 of Toribash requires that your visual C++ framework be up to date, if you find that you can load freeplay, but not multiplayer, and older versions of Toribash work, then this is probably the issue stopping Toribash from working.
To fix this problem just go to the VC++ 2010 download page, download the framework and install.
For x86 (32bit) systems only: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...3-37bf0912db84
For x64 (64bit) systems only: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...F-9350143D5867
Note that this solution is windows only.

Thanks for that, seems to have done the trick!