No. PlaneShift is a cross-platform game (Windows, Linux, MacOS etc). OpenGL is the only cross-platform 3D API (Direct3D is not).
There are issues where it is recommendable to invite "your local nerd" to get them fixed. Installing drivers is one of them.
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P.S.:
What is wrong with you?
You did not even start playing the game, but already question everything about this game which is already working for years.
It would have been useful for you to read before posting a kind of revolution we hardly need.