The 2D games probably need a proper DIB engine to work quickly enough.There have been some attempts but I don't think there is anything usable yet.You might want to try adding the registry entry HKCU > Wine > Direct3D > DirectDrawRenderer=opengl , as this can speed up 2d games in some cases (but might cause bugs) I believe the wiki has information on how to edit the registry, if you don't know how to do this This bug has the latest attempt at a DIB engine, but it doesn't seem to be giving good results, yet : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421#c99 Also, check the appdb for the particular game, there may be game specific things you can do to speed things up.
