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Hello, I've installed this vdrift-2006-07-08-minimal.x86.package, but when started the game shows me 2 white flashes , then a black screen. This is the output:
BinReloc successfully initialized.
Executable path: /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift
Data dir: /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/data
Localedir: /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/share/locale
/home/andrea/Desktop/vdrift/data/settings/VDrift.config not found. Attempting to load data from /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/bin/data
CONFIGFILE.Load: Couldn't find file: /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/bin/data/settings/VDrift.config
CONFIGFILE.Load: Couldn't find file: /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/bin/data/settings/options.config
Found config file /home/andrea/.vdrift/controls.
Found config file /home/andrea/.vdrift/VDrift.config.
Version of game: 2006-07-08
CONFIGFILE::GetParam(): .num_options not found in /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/bin/data/settings/options.config
0 joystick(s) found:
error loading texture file "gui/newfontt3.png"...
Multitexture units (4 are required for all effects): 4
Your GPU meets the texture unit requirements.

Note to user: All error messages will be put in /home/andrea/.vdrift/logs/.
error loading texture file "/home/andrea/Desktop/vdrift/data/textures//gui/libsplash.png"...
error loading texture file "/home/andrea/Desktop/vdrift/data/textures//gui/splash.png"...
Error loading sound file: /home/andrea/Desktop/vdrift/data/sounds/tire_squeal.wav
controls: invalid joystick type, default to joystick.
controls: invalid joystick touchiness compensation, default to off.
controls: invalid joystick deadzone, default to off.
error loading texture file "smoke/particle0.png"...
error loading texture file "smoke/particle1.png"...
error loading texture file "smoke/particle2.png"...
error loading texture file "smoke/particle3.png"...
error loading texture file "smoke/particle4.png"...
error loading texture file "smoke/particle5.png"...
error loading texture file "hud/timerbox.png"...
Multitexture: Yes
Texture units: 4
Anisotropic texture filtering: Yes
Maximum Anisotropy: 8

All my logs are empty, except keyman.log which states "Couldn't find key database."

help!

The problem you're having is related to VDrift not being able to find its data. It looks like you're trying to run VDrift from your desktop somehow? VDrift's data on your computer is in /home/andrea/.local/share/vdrift/data. VDrift finds its data by first looking in the current directory where you ran the game from, and if it doesn't find it, it looks in the directory where the binary is located. Then if it still can't find it, it's supposed to look in the subdirectory below that.

It looks like this last bit is not working correctly, I'll see if I can fix it. In the mean time you can get VDrift to find its data properly simply by adding a line to your /home/andrea/.vdrift/VDrift.config. under the section "[ main ]" add a line that says

Code:
data_dir = /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/data

and it should work fine.

thanks, this fixed the problem

nagio

thelusiv

nagio