Hi. Be careful not to post such huge ammounts of text ;) Ok, I'm no expert so you are going beyond my level of wine-know-about. But you said you downloaded the DLL and that *may be* your problem. Have you tried following a tutorial to install DX9? (maybe that would help, i don't know). Also, you could try googling for the same issues you have. I'm guessing that: > err:d3d:CreateContext Cannot activate context to set up defaults > err:d3d:CreateContext Cannot activate context to set up defaults > err:d3d7:IDirect3DDeviceImpl_2_GetRenderState Unexpected texture stage state setup, returning D3DTBLEND_MODULATE - likely erroneous is where the problem is, and that's why I think it can be related to the DLL. maybe if you ran the app without the DLL overide you could compare both outputs.