Thanks for the reply, the game I am trying to run is Spacehulk 2 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8965 but it still ahs problems. It is old and doenst like new OS's as it seems: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3579&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20 on these forums people have managed to run it on XP either by disabling directdraw hardware acceleration or by installing a virtual win98 I have set compatibility to Win95 but still getting unexpected errors, so I thought I will try disabling ddraw. I thought I installed directx5 that came with the game but I cannot find the dxdiag exe to run. Many thanks Costas