And if we concider that people who use wine have windows license ( [Laughing] ), why do people interested in photoshop and office don't put it in their vmware folder, i think virtualisation is better designed for this than for directx. It would liberate power for wine directx' work About regression , i'm not an expert in pharaonic coding, but i don't understand why wine don't use a plugin architecture, as lot of complexe projects Each specific part of windows api could be a plugin that you had to a fully verified and working core, with the ability to update, downgrade, activate, desactivate each plugin with a graphical inrterface 8)