the games i'm dealing with are eq and eq2. both the same error so i'm thinking its a wine issue and not a game specific issue i'll list my error here as best possible, and note that i have found "fixes" to this problem but have no idea what anyone in those "fix" threads are talking about. just search my error #, on this site or google and you'll get a result. so here we go if anyone posts a link to some help.. i may actually need help, understanding the help, so keep that in mind if you can =/ myxo@myxopc:~/Desktop$ wine EQ2.exe err:service:load_reg_multisz Error 1804 while reading value L"DependOnService" err:service:scmdatabase_load_services Error 1804 reading registry key for service L"TVersityMediaServer" - skipping fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x331510) using GetSystemInfo() myxo@myxopc:~/Desktop$ screenshot of the error below http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9821/screenshot145.png