BillBurt wrote: > No, turning off desktop effects does not help. Upgrade to wine-1.1.21, it seems there have been some d3d improvements. To recap the few tricks (most have been said in this thread though) that can help: - Upgrade to nvidia 180.x driver branch (I personally run 185.19). - Run winecfg, tab Graphics try disabling Vertex Shader/Pixel Shader - Turn compiz off, using metacity --replace or selecting None in Appearance Preferences => Visual Effects => None - File a bug on bugs.winehq.org on the application if something is not normal (make sure there isn't already one.)