From my own experience, Python 2.6 should work without crashing. The trashed images you mentioned is possibly related to GCC's code optimizations... avoid compiling the renpy modules with the -O2 or -O3 switch. Using -Os, -O1, or even -O0 has worked in my case.
From my own experience, Python 2.6 should work without crashing. The trashed images you mentioned is possibly related to GCC's code optimizations... avoid compiling the renpy modules with the -O2 or -O3 switch. Using -Os, -O1, or even -O0 has worked in my case.