Rico: >Please test the registry setting "AlwaysOffscreen" = "enabled" (see >http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys ). It fixes the sky issue >for me completely. :) And also for me. The remaining issue with the mouse could be fixed by checking 'Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows' in winecfg. Well, i am using a virtual desktop, but it works nevertheless. Now Gothic 3 seems to be usable under wine. But at the moment i am playing Nehrim, a wonderful modification of Oblivion. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)