Strange 'Skin not found' error when starting -- help, please

[thelusiv]

Well, since your card doesn't seem like it will support shaders, and all our graphics are based on shaders...there's not much we can do to improve the graphics.

If it won't run at all now, but did before, try deleting your VDrift.config again, then run the game again to create a new one, then edit the new VDrift.config again to disable shaders. From there, use the tweaks in the menus to disable other features like turn down lighting quality, turn down texture size, turn down view distance, etc.

Also the game doesn't require a $1500 machine to run (and as a side note, we don't really have any Windows devs). My Linux desktop was built a year ago for under $1000 and it runs VDrift quite nicely (nVidia 7600GT video card). I used to have a 3 year old machine with a nVidia gf4 Ti4200 that ran the game pretty well.

The poor performance problem is not because of older machines. A lot of people have "Desktop" video cards that are not really aimed at gaming, commonly made by Intel, SiS or ATI (their lower end cards), often built into motherboards or laptops, and often using shared system memory as video RAM. These cards do fine at 2D but not well at all with 3D, and as in the case of your card, do not support all the extensions commonly used in 3D games. Sadly the PC gaming market is dying, as people favor buying the new gaming consoles over spending money on upgrading to high end video cards.