VDrift

Yesterday marked the release of the first VDrift build since February of this year. For those not familiar with VDrift, it's an open-source multi-platform drift racing game that is powered by the Vamos engine. Compiling VDrift 2006-07-08 from source, I tried out this latest open-source racing game with the ATI 8.26.18 drivers on the Radeon X1800XT. For the most part, the game had worked fine with ATI Linux, however, there was a plight when it came to some details and textures. A majority of the game had worked fine, but there were some tracks where there would be large amounts of white surfaces, and in some instances the guard-rails would fail to display. I'm still in the process of digging up some information on these issues and hope to report back shortly. More on VDrift 2006-07-08 is here.