Error loading VDrift - Surface creation failed (Fedora 8)

[beavis2k3]

Hi,

I have a few problems with running VDrift on my machine:
Athlon64 3400+
1024Mb RAM
Geforce 6800 GT Ultra With 169.09 drivers from NVidia
Running Fedora 8 32bit

I downloaded the VDrift-2007-03-23-full-2.package from Sourceforge.net and installed it using the autopackage feature, it all installed fine but when i tried to run it from the menu it done nothing. I ran it from the console and i received this error: Segmentation Fault

I then uninstalled it using the autopackage uninstall program from my system menu and went back to Sourceforge.net and downloaded vdrift-2007-12-26-src.tar.bz2 and vdrift-20 07-12-26-data.zip.
I followed the instructions given from: http://wiki.vdrift.net/Compiling and everything went smoothly, i checked i had all the libs and dev-libs installed, then installed bullet and Scons and compiled and installed Vdrift fine.
When i try to run this version from the console (No menu link was installed) from /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift i recieve the error: EXCEPTION: Error initilizing VDrift: Surface creation failed

Ive searched the forum and the internet but havent found anything thats able to help me get this game working, so any help is very much appreciated!

Thanks,
Beavis