2009/2/4 simeon.mattes <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > I'm sure that there is an underlying problem with my system, but this problem appears whenever I open this specific application with wine. I don't know what happens exactly. I just describe what I see. This sort of thing can happen when Wine tickles the graphics driver in such a way that X (the window system) crashes. So your system isn't technically crashing (Linux is going okay), but from the point of doing actual stuff, it's crashed! - d.