I tried updating wine to 1.1.37... still no luck... but now the error is completely different... $ wine Wow.exe -opengl X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 237 Current serial number in output stream: 237 any ideas?