On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:11 -0500, flyfisherman wrote: > just installed wine a few days ago. have a few games running just > fine. trying to get F.E.A.R. running. when i try to start it takes > about 2 seconds and i get the fear.exe has encountered problem and > needs to close window. tried to start it from console,same thing. > added &> log.txt to the command. > Add the following to the command instead of &>log.txt 2>&1 >log.txt 2>&1 makes sure you capture both stdout and stderr data streams. you can capture them separately too, e.g.: >stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt Martin