Just for "fun" I set the color depth to 15 bit in Sax2, the intel driver allows this. Now virtually no wine application starts anymore, even winecfg refuses to start. ernst@Concordia:~> winecfg err:xrender:get_xrender_format_from_color_shifts No XRender format found! ... err:module:attach_process_dlls "shell32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe" failed, status c0000005 err:xrender:get_xrender_format_from_color_shifts No XRender format found! ... err:xrender:get_xrender_format_from_color_shifts No XRender format found! err:module:attach_process_dlls "shell32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005