> When does this exactly happen? I just ran WinVice 2.1 (wine xvic.exe) and I've had no blackscreen so far... > (I have other menu display and blinking-cursor-on-top-of-everything display problems) Immediately, when i start the program. It is x64.exe. > What video card and drivers? What window manager? Have you disabled compiz/3d desktop affects? ATI Radon X800XT with the official ATI driver - version 9.3, the latest, wich supports my card, i think. i downloaded from ati.amd.com and generated the custom packages. And KDE 3.5.10. Compiz and every effect is disabled.