Hi, Some other things you could try: get latest ati driver, if you haven't already, completely disable/uninstall pulseaudio in Ubuntu. In older wine versions, there used to be some issues with wine and hardware acceleration, which could be worked around with some settings, this won't work with recent wine versions due to architectural changes, for more information see http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=14212&sid=bd00ecc164412bde69b9c151711bf312