vitamin wrote: > There are few known issues with that. Use winetricsk to install msvc runtime: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks That's what i did, but it didn't work that well. James McKenzie wrote: > You need to try the last item with a clean wine. I was 99% positive that's what i did. Looks like i fell in the other 1%. Completely removed wine and .wine directory, reinstalled wine and tried again. Winetricks allowed me to install vcrun2005 this time. Note : it didn't install in system32 but in strangely named sub-folders of the winsxs folder. Now i don't get dll errors, but the app fails to initialize it's openGL display. Code: WARNING: 3DConnexion Plug-in Error: Could not create Device, CoCreateInstance failed I tried reverting to metacity instead of compiz-fusion with metacity --replace before running it, it didn't help. Looks like i'll keep my windows partition in the end. Thanks for your help.