torus trooper crashes when game-mode starts

Binary package hint: torus-trooper

program boots up alright but when you try to start a new game, it crashes. When I run from a terminal i get the following output:
Load BulletML: morph/accelshot.xml
Load BulletML: morph/twin.xml
Load BulletML: morph/fast.xml
Load BulletML: morph/fire_slowshot.xml
Load BulletML: morph/bar.xml
Load BulletML: morph/speed_rnd.xml
Load BulletML: morph/wide.xml
Load BulletML: morph/wedge_half.xml
Load BulletML: morph/slide.xml
Load BulletML: morph/divide.xml
Load BulletML: morph/0to1.xml
Load BulletML: morph/slowdown.xml
Load BulletML: morph/accel.xml
Load BulletML: basic/straight.xml
Load BulletML: middle/fast_aim.xml
Load BulletML: middle/backword_spread.xml
Load BulletML: middle/35way.xml
Load BulletML: middle/alt_nway.xml
Load BulletML: middle/alt_sideshot.xml
Load BulletML: middle/forward_1way.xml
Load BulletML: middle/grow.xml
Load BulletML: middle/grow3way.xml
Load BulletML: middle/squirt.xml
Load BulletML: middle/nway.xml
Load BulletML: middle/spread2blt.xml
Load BulletML: middle/clow_rocket.xml
Load BulletML: middle/random_fire.xml
Load BulletML: middle/diamondnway.xml
Load bgm: tt1.ogg
Load bgm: tt2.ogg
Load bgm: tt4.ogg
Load bgm: tt3.ogg
Load SE: shot.wav
Load SE: charge.wav
Load SE: charge_shot.wav
Load SE: hit.wav
Load SE: small_dest.wav
Load SE: middle_dest.wav
Load SE: boss_dest.wav
Load SE: myship_dest.wav
Load SE: extend.wav
Load SE: timeup_beep.wav
torus-trooper: brw_vtbl.c:98: brw_new_batch: Assertion `!brw->no_batch_wrap' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: torus-trooper 0.22.dfsg1-3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
SourcePackage: torus-trooper
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic x86_64