doh123: I think fbo is usually recommended, but I saw one or two suggestions for backbuffer. I was using backbuffer because fbo caused a couple hundred errors along the lines of Code: err:d3d:getColorBits Unsupported format: WINED3DFMT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT err:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_IsPixelFormatCompatibleWithRenderFmt Unable to check compatibility for Format=WINED3DFMT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT Neither registry setting seemed to have any bearing on the mouse issue or the crash. When running in a virtual desktop, the mouse kept escaping the window. vitamin: I attempted to compile and install Wine off of Git, but I must have messed up somewhere along the line, because I ended up with this when I attempted to run anything in wine: Code: err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out WineDbg starting on pid 0040 Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than or equal to 2.0.5. http://www.freetype.org err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory start_process () at /home/william/wine-git/dlls/kernel32/process.c:954 0x7b878d90 start_process+0x50 [/home/william/wine-git/dlls/kernel32/process.c:954] in kernel32: movl %esi,0x0(%esp) 954 return entry( peb ); Wine-dbg> Any idea what I might have messed up during the compile/install? Downgrading to 1.1.28 resulted in the same error message as 1.1.29, and the same behaviour using the native dinput8, as well as a nice crash on exit. I don't have a joystick plugged in.