David Griffith wrote: > Okay, so any ideas on how to get Wine to not require those options? Any > ideas on why Wine gets bogged down on videos? Abe's Exodus doesn't have > these problems. Sounds like slow ddraw to me. Try using opengl backend for it (DirectDrawRenderer=opengl http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys). If that won't do it, then it's probably a ddraw & GDI. It is horribly slow in Wine because of lack of DIB engine.