In a new wine prefix everything seems to work. but when i use my old one (that i use since 0.9.44 and which has worked well until 1.1.11) it's pretty much as ansus says (also using wine 1.1.12 and ubuntu 8.10): (output when calling winecfg): wine: Call from 0x7b844f70 to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExInitializeResourceLite, aborting wine: Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExInitializeResourceLite called at address 0x7b844f70 (thread 0015), starting debugger... wineserver crashed, please enable coredumps (ulimit -c unlimited) and restart. seems like i have to start a new wine prefix and try not to install that much copy protection shit ;-)