OK. Sacred = easy - it's an old game which F.E.A.R. = harder - uses directx 9.0c+ features BTW according to Wikipedia : Sacred Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_%28video_game%29) there was to be a Linux port of the game... Not sure if you can get hold of that? Do you know what graphics card hardware you have? Plus what driver version? I presume you have disabled Compiz/KVM compositing?! Sound is OK you say? On my rig I had to run Winecfg and set the directsound acceleration mode to 'emulation' to get the sound 'fully' working. Bob