How does "file a bug" answer the question the OP asked? Like AndriyK, I would like to help Wine by making programmes I use work better. Once I have some clues as to the problem, then you can have a bug report. However, it is very difficult for me to get "under the hood" and be sure that I am not just wasting time - yours even more than mine. I have tried looking for documentation - Where are details of what the messages mean? (the answer usually seems to be "not much") When it crashes, how does one interpret the crash details? Generic information please - not specific. Mostly the documents do not exist and when I do find something it usually assumes a lot of existing knowledge. I have tried reading the source code with some limited success- but there is quite a lot of it and it is hard to get an overview that way. So are the forums not a sensible place to ask the sort of question AndriyK asks and should you not attempt a real answer? PS. There are good answers in the thread but there are also a lot of non answers - and I am sorry this is a non answer as well.