Sorry it took me so long to reply, I've played toe game on my laptop which runs windows. So I tried running it on my desktop (linux) again and here's what that text file said.
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.538 Starting Engine::Init()
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.785 Starting Display::Init()
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.785 Attempting to set highest possible resolution.
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Enumerating Resolutions.
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 1440x900
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 1280x1024
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 1280x960
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 1152x720
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 1024x768
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 800x600
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Found resolution: 640x480
Mon Apr 29 17:41:35 2019.814 Starting Display::SetVideoMode(), setting 1280x720
That's all that was in it, no idea if it's helpful at all. If not I can still run it on my laptop at least.
EDIT: I just changed the engine.cfg file to make the game run in a window and it works that way. I have a dual monitor setup on my linux box so I wonder if that's causing the issue?