I got the crysis game working by coping native d3dx9_36.dll and xinput1_3.dll. to the bin32 dir (Thnx Rico) ...but the graphics are really bad... hope there is a way of improving the display as far as the other problem i am still left with an error Code: harkirat@summertanks:/Games/Learn To Speak French$ wine LSFE95.exe err:module:attach_process_dlls "ASR3234.DLL" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"G:\\Learn To Speak French\\LSFE95.exe" failed, status c0000142 I would welcome any suggestions...