i am trying to either confirm that this is the reason why age of empires 2 is unbearably slow on wine, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421, or find another reason why, and then see about trying to make a fix. Anybody know how i would go about checking if the DIB engine is whats causing the problem? While we are at it, any idea what a DIB engine is?