Can't open game?!?!?!?!

[thelusiv]

First check to make sure you ran the OpenAL installer before you install VDrift. This was thought to be taken care of but somehow slipped through before the last Windows release. If OpenAL is not present, VDrift will crash (this is what is happening when it disappears on you).

Next, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card from nvidia. Make sure they're installed correctly, and give it a reboot for good measure after you install/update OpenAL and any drivers.

Your card should be mostly fine for the game. You may find that turning the view distance setting down to low will improve performance a lot. The low setting restricts drawing the 3D world to 500 meters in front of your car. If you're still not happy with performance, you can edit your VDrift.config file and change the view_distance value to something even lower like 200.0 (only see 200 meters ahead). This reduces the amount of stuff that has to be drawn every frame and can really improve performance; of course the down side is that you can't see as far ahead.

The errors in the utility.log file are benign, those are actually due to our not having totally finished the interior on those cars yet.