Have you tried messing with the regedit? When I have a black screen on a game I first check wine regedit. in AppDB for EVE they suggest you set the value of these strings to this [Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] "DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl" "MaxFragmentUniforms"="1024" "MaxVaryings"="52" "MaxVertexUniforms"="1024" "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo" (if you have graphical glitches with interface, cange it in "Backbuffer" ) "PixelShaderMode"="enabled" "VertexShaderMode"="hardware" "VideoMemorySize"="(you videocard memory here)"