I've tested now the new wine 1.1.30. Result: No significant change. With the built - in gdiplus pictures are only shown as blue thump nails or enlarged the screen remains dark. With the native gdiplus the program craches. Here the messages which could shed some light on the issue ===== fixme:gdiplus:GdipCreateBitmapFromHBITMAP can only get image data from DIB sections fixme:gdiplus:GdipCloneBitmapAreaI (0,0,90,65,2498570,0x9960838,0x8dae734): stub err:wincodecs:JpegDecoder_Frame_CopyPixels read_scanlines failed ==== These messages appear many times after closing the program with built-in gdiplus enabled Am Samstag, 26. September 2009 02:24:46 schrieb DaVince: > I saw that Wine 1.1.30 has a ton of gdiplus improvements. Try using that > version (by compiling Wine yourself or waiting 1 or 2 days for an Ubuntu > package) to see if it fixes anything. If not, install native gdiplus using > winetricks.